"
"Bow wow!" barked Snap. That was what he always said when any one
spoke to him. I suppose HE knew what he meant, but no one else did. At
any rate, he seemed to understand what was said to him.
"Up, Snap! Up!" called Nan suddenly, and Snap rose on his hind legs,
holding his fore paws out in front of him, so Nan could place the doll
on them.
This the little girl did, putting Flossie's "sawdust baby" carefully
across Snap's paws.
"Now take the doll for a walk!" ordered Nan, and, with another bark,
off Snap started, parading across the deck.
"Oh, isn't he too cute!" cried Dorothy, laughing and clapping her
hands. "Oh, what a smart dog he is!"
"Isn't he!" agreed Nan. "Bert said I never could teach him to do a
trick, but I did."
"Indeed you did!" agreed Dorothy.
"Now come back here, Snap!" ordered Nan. But just then something
happened.
How it was no one knew exactly, but Bert suddenly caught a fish. He
was so surprised at getting a hard bite on his line, that he jerked it
up quickly. Something flashed in the sunlight, and, the next moment, a
little sunfish landed flapping on the deck, right in front of the
sleeping black cat Snoop.
"Flop!" went the fish, and Snoop awakened with a jump. Up to her feet
she leaped like a flash, and then she saw the fish. Snoop was very
fond of fish, and made a spring for the one Bert had caught.
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