A Great Fright. 143.

 

one, though he knew a_ good
many; and most of them would
play with him whenever he invited
them.

Those were the dogs belonging to
the neighbours ; his little friends’
dogs, you see.

One day, however, it was a hot
day in summer; mother was busy
indoors, and May weeding in the
garden, while Johnny had run out
into the lane close by.

May had been watching him; and
she had been talking to him not a
minute before. He was out of her
sight before she knew it, for he had
run into the lane because he thought
he saw his dear friend Wolf coming