Chapter 6

CHAPTER SIX Timmy knew there was someone about, of course- but now he didn't dare to bark. He had been put into his kennel as a punishment for barking- if he barked again and woke Mr Kirrin, goodness knows what would happen to him!

So he kept completely silent, and slipped out of his kennel, and down the garden path after the boy with the sack.

He followed him all the way to the village, unseen and unheard. How he longed to growl, how he longed to fly at this nasty little robber-boy and nip him sharply in the leg!

He saw the boy go through a gate and walk to a shed nearby. He went in, and came out again- but this time without the sack!

Then he let himself into the house nearby, shut the door, and disappeared. Timmy sat down to think. After a minute he went to the shed and slipped through the half-broken wooden door.

He smelt the sack at once. That bulging sack belonged to George! Very well- it must at once be taken back to Kirrin Cottage before the boy took out all the presents in it. Timmy sniffed at the parcels inside. His own parcel was there- the one with the bone that Anne had wrapped up for him. Timmy growled. So that boy had DARED to carry away his bone! Timmy decided to take the whole sack back to Kirrin Cottage. But it was far too heavy for him to drag out of the shed! What was he to do?