Still, what Tabby had said to him, and what Squinty, the comical pig, had said to him, stayed in Don’s mind. As the days passed, and the warm, beautiful summer weather came, Don said:
“I wonder how it would seem to run away? I’ve a good notion to try it, just once. Then I could come back, and tell Tabby and Squinty and the other farm animals that there is really no fun in running away. That would make them contented, and they would be glad to stay here.
“Yes, I think I’ll run away, but only just to tell the others how it seems, so they won’t want to do it. In that way I would be doing Bob and his father a favor. Yes, I shall run away.”
So Don ran away, and then began some wonderful adventures for him.
[CHAPTER VI]
DON IS LOCKED IN
When Don made up his mind to run away from the farm, he chose a time to do it when Bob would be away at school. For the dog well knew that if Bob were at home there would be little chance of getting away without being seen.
Bob always wanted Don with him, and, as soon as the boy came home from his lessons, the first thing he would do would be to run out to the kennel to see how Don was.
“Yes,” thought Don to himself, in a way dogs have of thinking, that we know nothing about, “yes, if I am to run away I must go when Bob is not at home. Otherwise he might stop me.