I didn’t tell them how I came out. “I think that was a fire escape,” Papa said.
“Fire escape!” I said. “It looked like a slide to me.”
“Did you notice where it made that bend up at the top?” he asked.
I nodded my head. “Well, inside the school there’s a door,” he said.
“If the school gets on fire, they open the door. The children jump in the pipe and slide out to safety.”
“Boy, that’s a keen way of getting out of a fire,” I said.
“Well, it’s getting late,” Papa said. “We’ll talk about this some other time. We’d better get to bed as we have a lot of work to do tomorrow.”
My pups were put in the corncrib for the night. I covered them with shucks and kissed them good night.
The next day was a busy one for me. With the hampering help of my sisters I made the little doghouse.
Papa cut the ends off his check lines and gave them to me for collars.
With painstaking care, deep in the tough leather I scratched the name “Old Dan” on one and “Little Ann” on the other.
With a nail and a rock two holes were punched in each end of the straps.
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