"Where is Baby Betty?" said mother, coming up from the cellar where she
had been making butter.
"I saw Baby Betty's pink sunbonnet in the front yard by the maple tree
an hour ago," said big brother John. Then he ran to the front yard and
looked everywhere--behind the maple tree, under the lilac bush, down by
the road, but no Baby Betty was there.
"I saw Baby Betty down by the pump not long ago," said father. Then
they looked by the well, and in the corn crib and all through the
farmyard, but no Baby Betty was there.
"I saw Baby Betty's curly head in the garden a while ago," said big
sister Sue. Then Sue ran to the garden and looked under the currant
bushes, behind the asparagus bed and in the strawberry patch.
But no Baby Betty was there.
"Where, oh, where is Baby Betty?" said mother. Then they all looked,
down the lane, in the apple orchard, in the clover field and behind the
haystack, but no Baby Betty could be found.
Just then Rover came home from the village with the hired man. "Where
is Baby Betty?" said father. "Find Baby Betty." Then he showed Rover
Betty's little pink sunbonnet. Rover smelled of it and looked around
the yard and whined. First he ran to the front yard and then to the
pump, then to the garden and then to the strawberry patch beyond the
garden.
"He thinks she is in the strawberry patch," said Sue, "but I looked
there and I surely would have seen her."
Up and down the rows went Rover, and across to the farther side of the
patch. Soon he stopped and barked a little and then came running back.
Again he started over to the strawberry patch. "I believe he wants us
to follow," said mother.
Then all of them followed Rover away to the farther side of the
strawberry patch.
There, behind a clump of tall plants, with her hand clutching some ripe
berries, was Baby Betty fast asleep.
Father lifted her and carried her to the house. Mother came close along
by his side; while John and Sue patted Rover's neck and said, "Good
dog, good dog."
Rover looked up at them with his kind eyes and wagged his tail very
hard.
Baby Betty went to playing again in the yard, and Rover lay down under
the apple tree to watch over her.
[Illustration: PRINCE SEES A DRAGON]