"Toady" was always asking for me, and they tried to keep me with him: he seemed to lie easier when I was there.

I succeeded at length, however, and, once outside the door, I put sufficient distance between myself and the house to ensure my not being captured, for I knew "Toady" so long as he lived would never cease hoping to get me back.
"'Where to go, I did not know.

Two or three homes were offered me, but none of them quite suited me.

At one place, where I put up for a day, just to see how I liked it, there was a dog; and at another, which would otherwise have done admirably, they kept a baby.

Whatever you do, never stop at a house where they keep a baby.