Sue ran to the garden and looked under the currant
bushes, behind the asparagus bed and in the strawberry patch.

But no Baby Betty was there.

"Where, oh, where is Baby Betty?" said mother. Then they all looked,
down the lane, in the apple orchard, in the clover field and behind the
haystack, but no Baby Betty could be found.

Just then Rover came home from the village with the hired man. "Where
is Baby Betty?" said father. "Find Baby Betty." Then he showed Rover
Betty's little pink sunbonnet. Rover smelled of it and looked around
the yard and whined. First he ran to the front yard and then to the
pump, then to the garden and then to the strawberry patch beyond the
garden.

"He thinks she is in the strawberry patch," said Sue, "but I looked
there and I surely would have seen her."

Up and down the rows went Rover, and across to the farther side of the
patch. Soon he stopped and barked a little and then came running back.

Again he started over to the strawberry patch. "I believe he wants us
to follow," said mother.

Then all of them followed Rover away to the farther side of the
strawberry patch.

There, behind a clump of tall plants, with her hand clutching some ripe
berries, was Baby Betty fast asleep.

Father lifted her and carried her to the house. Mother came close along
by his side; while John and Sue patted Rover's neck and said, "Good
dog, good dog."

Rover looked up at them with his kind eyes and wagged his tail very
hard.

Baby Betty went to playing again in the yard, and Rover lay down under
the apple tree to watch over her.

[Illustration: PRINCE SEES A DRAGON]

XIII

"May I have a horse to drive to town this afternoon?" asked mother one
noon in summer. "I must take Bobby and Betty to get them some new
shoes."

"Yes," said father. "You may have Prince to-day. He is our safest
horse."

So Sue stayed at home to get supper, while mother and Bobby and Betty
went away in the carriage toward the city.

The city was ten miles away. It was a pleasant drive, past the little
red school house, past farmhouses and orchards and cornfields and
woods.

When about half way there, down the road in front of them there
appeared a big threshing machine, with its engine drawing it along.

"Chug-chug-chug-chug," went the engine. Slowly it came toward them.

"Do you think Prince will be scared?" asked Bobby.

"I hope not," said mother, "but you had better take fast hold of Baby
Betty so she w