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"It's alive!" cried Sammie. "Look, it's rollin'!" And so the scooped-out pumpkin was moving! It was rolling to and fro on the porch and, for a moment, Hal and Mab did not know what to think. Then, all of a sudden, they heard a noise like: "Bow-wow! Ki-yi!" "Oh, it's Roly-Poly!" exclaimed Mab. "He's in the pumpkin," shouted Hal. And so the little poodle dog was.
Then, before they could find their voices, their ears were assailed by a loud noise in the hall below, followed by the muffled "bow-wow" of a dog, the sound of which seemed to come from the landing at the head of the stairway. Jim could stand the pressure of the situation no longer. He sprang from the bed, lighted a candle, and rushed out into the hall.
"Let's go see what it is." "Daddy told us to stay here," said Mab. "We can't go." Hal knew that, and, much as he wanted to see what was going on, he would not disobey his father. Mab, too, would have liked to run down where Daddy Blake and Mr. Porter were. "Bow-wow! Ki-yi!" barked and howled Roly again, and then the children heard their father and his friend, the man next door, laughing.
"There's a Yellow Hen here, and she can talk, and so can her chickens; and there's a Pink Kitten upstairs in my room who talks very nicely; but I've a little fuzzy black dog, named Toto, who has been with me in Oz a long time, and he's never said a single word but 'Bow-wow!" "Do you know why?" asked Ozma.
Equipped as he was with a taste truly catholic, capable in old age of admiring "Pelham," he had the power to do what he calls "the big bow-wow strain;" yet he was not, as in his modesty he supposed, denied "the exquisite torch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment."
How I would love to read of a Bines standin' up, all in purty velvet pants, most likely, to receive at one of them bow-wow functions; functions, I believe, is the name of it?" he ended in polite inquiry.
Dakie Thayne had accompanied with the reading of the ballad, slightly transposed and adapted. As Leslie led Sir Charles before the curtain, in response to the continued demand, he added the concluding stanza, "The dame made a courtesy, The dog made a bow; The dame said, 'Your servant, The dog said, 'Bow-wow."
"I can't shake him off and he's biting deep into my neck. I'm feared he'll bore a hole in it!" "Hurry up, Splash! Hurry up!" urged Bunny. "Bow-wow!" barked Splash again, which, I suppose, was his way of saying he would. On he came, and, all this while, the gobbler was on top of Tom's back, gobbling away, fluttering his wings and now and then making savage pecks at the boy's shoulders and neck.
While his mother was upstairs Tommy would give Elspeth two or three shoes to eat to keep her quiet, and then he played with the others, pretending to be able to count them, arranging them in designs, shooting them, swimming among them, saying "bow-wow" at them and then turning sharply to see who had said it.
He had stopped to look at a little crayfish, and it had nipped his nose, so Splash was not feeling any too pleasant. Most of you children know that a crayfish is like a little lobster. "Here, Splash! Splash!" cried Bunny. "Come and drive this bad turkey off Tom!" "Bow-wow!" barked the big dog, as he came running. "Tell him to hurry," begged Tom.
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