Duffy soon got tired of playing with MacGregor in the back yard. He wanted to chase squirrels and would bark and bark at them when he saw them climbing nearby trees. Sometimes they came quite near to Duffy and tease him until he almost went crazy. Duffy wanted to get those squirrels. One day he noticed that he could get his nose under the chain link fence, and he could see a squirrel not more than ten feet away outside the fence just sitting there and daring Duffy to come get him. Duffy decided to dig in the soft grass and dirt, and the more he dug the more he enjoyed the idea of getting out of the back yard.
Soon he wiggled under the fence, and MacGregor, who was watching the whole digging process, began to bark, as he did not want to burrow under the fence and was worried about what Duffy would get up to next. Duffy immediately chased the squirrel up a nearby tree and barked and barked and tried to climb the tree, too. MacGregor just barked and barked, hoping someone would hear him and rescue Duffy before he got in more trouble.
Five boys lived next door on this side. The oldest was James and then Tyler, Andy, Jon, and Christian in that order of age. James heard all the barking, and he realized that Duffy had gotten out. He yelled to his brothers to spread out and to try to catch Duffy. Duffy was a fast runner and decided this was a great game, and he dashed this way and that, eluding all of the boys. Finally he tired of the game and was caught by Jon. Duffy was a sad looking sight and not very white with all his digging in the dirt. The five boys brought Duffy to our front door and rang the door bell. Judy was very surprised to see all the boys until she saw dirty Duffy. She put Duffy on the back porch, locked the doggy door, and offered the boys sodas for all their good hard work in catching Duffy.
MacGregor was still barking until let in the porch door, where he could see that Duffy was all right. Kris was home and offered to give Duffy a much-needed bath. Judy went outside to see where Duffy gotten out and put a large brick in the hole that he dug. ''Wait till Charlie gets home," she scolded Duffy. A clean Duffy was put into his crate to await his punishment.
When Charlie got home, he took Duffy out to the hole he had dug and lightly paddled his bottom and rubbed his nose in the dirt. He kept saying, "Bad Duffy, bad Duffy! We don't want you to get out and get onto the street and maybe get run over. You must stay in the back yard." Duffy hung his head and when put down, he immediately went into his crate. MacGregor went in also to comfort Duffy.
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