The dogs were right after Reddy, running hard, too, but they were two
fields farther back. Reddy, you see, had fooled them in that wood, and
he had gotten a good headstart.

My, how Reddy was running!

Marmaduke stood up on the fence and shouted:

"Hooray, go it Reddy!"

[Illustration: "Marmaduke stood on the fence and shouted:--'Hooray! Go
it, Reddy!'"]

He shouted so hard, and waved his hands so excitedly that he tumbled off
his perch, and lay still for a second. He was frightened, too, but he
forgot all about the bump on his forehead, and picked himself up, and ran
after Reddy across the field towards the barnyard, which, fortunately,
was just on the other side.

"Ooooooohhhhh!"--a very deep "Oooooohhhh!" came from behind him from
the throats of the dogs. They were only one field away now, and it
sounded as if they were pretty mad.

But Reddy had reached the corner of the field where the blackberry
bushes lined the fence. Now usually Reddy would have looked all around
those bushes until he found an opening; then he would have stepped
daintily through it. But he didn't do that today, oh no! You see his
family has a great reputation for wisdom, and Reddy must have been
just as wise as the man in Mother Goose, for he neither stopped nor