Lady and the Tramp

chapter 4

Tramp led the girls more into town. Cherry couldn't find Aunt Sarah anywhere and just assumed she went back home with Junior, Si and Am. There was a guard in front of the gates they were headed for and finally Tramp stopped to show the girls where they were.

"Well, here we are." Tramp said.

"The Zoo?" the girls both said as they saw the sign.

"Sure!" Tramp beamed.

Cherry and Lady went to the entrance, but Tramp pulled Lady back and bit on Cherry's pants to pull her back too. He wanted to stop them from going that way.

"No, this way," Tramp whispered as they were all in the bushes. "Follow me."

Lady was about to follow, but she then moaned.

"What's the matter, Lady?" Cherry asked.

"We can't go in." Lady told them.

"Why not?" Tramp asked.

Cherry saw as she read a sign that said: No Dogs Allowed.

"Well, the sign says..." Lady tried to tell him.

"Yeah, well, well, that's an angle." Tramp said.

"Angle?" Cherry asked.

"Look, Cherry, you stay here with Pidge so you don't get in trouble," Tramp organized his plan as a man with book walked by the sidewalk. "We'll just wait for the right-Uh, here we are now. Just lay low."

The man walked out from the zoo, passing the guard. Tramp emerged from the bushes and followed around the man to play a trick.

"Hey, you!" the guard called sharply to the normal man.

"Uh, I beg your pardon," the man looked at him nervously. "Were you addressing me?"

"What's the matter?" the guard pointed his club against the sign. "Can't you read?"

"Why, yes, several languages!" the man assured him.

"Oh, a wise guy, eh?" the guard pointed to Tramp. Tramp then stood in front of the man to protect him. "What's this creature doin' here?"

"He's not my dog!" the man replied.

Tramp then jumped into his arms like he had known the man all his life. He even licked the poor man's face. Cherry tried to hold in her laughs as she and Lady watched.

"Oh, he's not, eh?" the guard was understandably dubious.

"Go away, go on," the man tried to drive Tramp away so he wouldn't get in trouble. "Why, certinately not, officer!"

"Ah, I suppose you'll be tellin' me next it was the dog whistlin', huh?"

"Oh, I'm a liar now, am I?"

"Well, you listen to me!"

"Resisitin' an officer of the law? You're gonna pay-" the guard then howled in pain as Tramp bit him. "Oh, pull a knife on me, will ya? Tryin' to assassinate me, aren't ya?"

Tramp signaled the girls to come with him. Lady and Cherry left the bushes as the men continued to argue. Cherry walked in and looked all around to see what Tramp had in mind of getting Lady help with the zoo animals.

"Come on, guys," Tramp praised. "The place is ours. We'd better go through this place A to Z."

"How about an ape?" Cherry suggested.

"Apes? No, no, no," Tramp shook his head. "No use even asking them. They will not understand."

"They wouldn't?" Lady asked.