This is the idea: There was a mad dog scare here in Daylight Park, last month, when a Pom puppy snapped at some kids that were teasing it.

Then, a day or so later, a Persian cat had fits and chased old Mrs.Cratchitt across a lawn and gave her a spell of palpitation of the heart.

And the next day an Angora goat that the Varian children had as a pet got loose and chewed up several hundred dollars' worth of lingerie off a line.

Then the Clives' spaniel took to barking under Rutherford Garretse's study window.

And--" "You needn't be afraid of Lad's doing any of those fool things," bragged the Master.