Don, a Runaway Dog: His Many Adventures

The little silky poodle dog followed Don, for the dogs in the pound were not very friendly toward one another――at least most of them were not. You would have thought, being all...

“Have you? That’s nice. I hope he’ll be a good dog, and not come in on my clean carpets with muddy feet,” said Bob’s mother. Don heard her say this, and right away he made up hi...

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 lit...

Don looked around quickly to see who had spoken. He saw two boys standing at the corner, near where that good smell of meat came from, for which Don was so hungry. One of the bo...

Don was one of five little puppies. With his brothers and sisters he cuddled up close to Mrs. Gurr, the mother dog, to keep warm, for it was rather cool for little dogs, even th...

Don hardly knew what to think when Bob, his boyish master, called to him that way. The little dog had not lived long enough in the world to know much about bulls jumping fences....

Don did not know very much about parties――especially girls’ parties. On the farm there had never been any parties, except for boys, and those were mostly fishing, or nutting par...

But Don was running too fast for any small boy to get hold of him, and those boys were not very large. Don was running as he had never run before, because he was so frightened....

Don, who had been barking and growling to make Squinty, the comical pig, go back to his pen, stopped suddenly, and grew very quiet when he saw the funny, hairy, four-handed anim...

Poor Don did not know what to do. There he was, shut tightly up in a dark freight car, that was rumbling over the rails as fast as it could go.

“Well, I――I’m trying hard!” answered Don. “I guess――glub――blulp――gurg!” and then he could not say anything more, even in dog language, for his mouth was full of water.

Poor Don did not know what to make of all this. But, somehow, he felt that he was in danger, and, with one more glance back over his shoulder, seeing the man with the net on the...