Snap growled
and showed his teeth.

"There!" cried Danny. "I told you he'd bite."

"He will not, Danny Rugg!" exclaimed Nan, who had gone up front for a
minute to speak to some of the older girls. "He only growled because
you acted mean to him. Now you leave him alone, or I'll tell Mr.
Tetlow on you."

"Pooh! Think I care? I say no dog can come to our picnic. Go on
home!" and with raised hand Danny approached Snap. Again the dog
growled angrily. He was not used to being treated in this way.

"Look out, Danny Rugg," said Nan, severely, "or he may jump on you, and
knock you down. He wouldn't bite you, though, mean as you are, unless
I told him to do so."

"I'm not afraid of you!" cried Danny, more angry than before. "I'll
get a stick and then we'll see what will happen," and he looked about
for one.

"Don't let Danny beat Snap!" pleaded Flossie, tears coming into her
eyes.

"I won't," said Nan, looking about anxiously for Bert. She saw him
coming back, and felt better. By this time Danny had found a club, and
was coming back to where Flossie, Freddie and Nan, with some of their
friends, were walking along, Snap in their midst.

"I'll make that dog go home now!" cried Danny. "I'm not going to get
bitten, and have hyperfobia, or whatever you call it. I'll tell Mr.
Tetlow if you don't make him go home."

"Oh, don't be so smart!" exclaimed Bert, stepping out from behind a
group of girls. "I've told Mr. Tetlow myself that Snap is following
us, and he said to let him come along. So you needn't take the
trouble, Danny Rugg. And if you try to hit our dog I'll have something
more to say," and Bert stepped boldly forth.

"Huh! I'm not afraid of you," sneered Danny, but he let the club drop,
and walked off with his own particular chums.

"Did Mr. Tetlow say Snap could come?" asked Freddie, anxiously.

"Yes. He said he'd be good to drive away the cows if they bothered
us," answered Bert, with a smile.

After this little trouble, the Bobbseys and their friends went on
toward the grove in the woods where the picnic was to be held. There
was laughing and shouting, and much fun on the way, in which Snap
shared.

Boys and girls would run to one side or the other of the path to gather
late flowers. Some would pick up odd stones, or pine cones, and others
would find curious little creeping or crawling things which they called
their friends to see.

Each teacher had charge of her special class, but s