"I
hope Sammie isn't hurt!"
CHAPTER V
THE POTATOES' EYES
Hal and Mab ran after their father as he hurried out into the yard. They
could hear Sammie crying more loudly now, and above his voice sounded a
growling and barking noise.
One part of the fence, between the Blake yard and that where Mr. Porter
had made his garden, was low, so that the two children could look over.
They saw Sammie standing near the fence, greatly frightened, and looking
at a tangle of morning glory vines in which something was wiggling around
and making a great fuss.
"Oh, what is it?" asked Hal.
"It's a--it's a lion!" cried the frightened Sammie. "A great--great big
lion, all fuzzy like!"
"Oh, it couldn't be a lion, Sammie," said Mr. Blake. "Tell me what it is
that scared you."
"'Tis a lion," said Sammie again. "He ran after me an' I ran an' he ran in
the bushes an' he's there now. He barked at me!"
"Ho! If he barked it's a DOG," cried Hal. "Where is he, Sammie?"
"In there," and Sammie pointed to the tangle of morning glory vines. Just
then Mab saw something that made her call out:
"Why it is a dog. It's OUR dog--Roly-Poly!"
"Are you sure?" asked her father.
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