[Illustration]

[Illustration]

Peterkins was too large to sleep in the nursery, so he had a nice cozy
dog-house under the grape arbor.

"Come in," Peterkins said when he saw and recognized the dolls, so all
the dollies went into Peterkins' house and sat about while Raggedy told
him why they had come.

"It has worried me, too!" said Peterkins, "but I had no way of telling
your mistress where Fido was, for she cannot understand dog language!
For you see," Peterkins continued, "Fido and I were having the grandest
romp over in the park when a great big man with a funny thing on the end
of a stick came running towards us. We barked at him and Fido thought he
was trying to play with us and went up too close and do you know, that
wicked man caught Fido in the thing at the end of the stick and carried
him to a wagon and dumped him in with a lot of other dogs!"

"_The Dog Catcher!_" cried Raggedy Ann.

"Yes!" said Peterkins, as he wiped his eyes with his paws. "It was the
dog catcher! For I followed the wagon at a distance and I saw him put
all the dogs into a big wire pen, so that none could get out!"

"Then you know the way there, Peterkins?" asked Raggedy Ann.

"Yes, I can find it easily," Peterkins said.