Run!' "And then, with a screech like a siren whistle, Augustus commenced to run.

Nate was between him and the outside door, so he bolted headfirst into the dining room.

And after him went Nate Scudder, so crazy mad he didn't know what he was doin'.
"'Twas pitch dark in the dining room, but through it they went rattlety bang! dishes smashin', chairs upsettin' and 'hurrah, boys!' to pay gen'rally.

Then through the best parlor and into the front hall.
"I cal'late Nate would have had him at the foot of the front stairs if it hadn't been for Galileo.

That cat had been asleep on the sofy, and the noise and hullabaloo had stirred him up till he was as crazy as the rest of 'em.