him, especially if he looked like Splash. And one day, when
Bunny and Sue had gone down to the corner of their street, to listen to
another hurdy-gurdy hand-piano, they saw a big yellow dog running about,
sniffing at some muddy water in a puddle in the sidewalk, as though he
wanted a drink.

"Oh, look at that dog!" cried Bunny to Sue. "He's thirsty!"

"He looks as nice as Splash, only, of course, it isn't Splash," Sue
said.

"Maybe we could take him," said Bunny. "Let's try. Then we'll have a
city dog and a country dog, too."

Sue was willing, and she and Bunny walked up to the stray dog.

"Come here!" called Bunny, just as he used to call to Splash.

The dog looked up. He seemed to like children, for he came straight to
Bunny and Sue.

"Oh, he's got a nice collar on," said Sue. "Let's take him to Aunt Lu's,
Bunny, and give him a nice drink of water."

"All right," agreed Bunny. "We will." Then, each with a hand on the
dog's collar, Bunny and Sue walked along with the nice animal, whose red
tongue hung out of his mouth, for the dog had been running, and was
quite hot.

CHAPTER XIV

THE RAGGED MAN

"Come on, nice dog!" coaxed Sue, for as the children came nearer to the
house where Aunt Lu lived, the animal seemed to want to turn back and
run away.

"Yes, don't be afraid," said Bunny. "We'll give you something nice to
eat, and some cold water."

Whether the dog understood what Bunny and Sue said to him, or whether he
was thirsty and hungry and hoped to get something to eat, I do not know.
Some dogs seem to know everything you say to them, and certainly this
one was very wise. So he walked on willingly with the two children.

"Do you think we can keep him?" asked Sue.

"I guess so," answered her brother. "He's my dog, 'cause I saw him
first."

"Isn't he half mine?" Sue wanted to know.

"Nope, he's _all_ mine!" and Bunny took a firmer grasp on the dog's
collar.

"Well, I don't care!" cried Sue, stamping her foot, which she sometimes
did when she was getting angry. "Half of our dog Splash at home is mine,
and I don't see why I can't have half of this one."

"Nope, you can't!" cried Bunny. He hardly ever acted this way toward his
sister. Generally he gave her half of everything. "I want all this dog,"
Bunny said. "I'm going to train him to be a circus animal, and if a girl
owns part of a dog she don't want him to run, or get muddy or anything
like that."

"Oh, Bunny Brown!" cried Sue. "I d