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So it was laid away for repairs , and its disappointed maker devoted his energies to helping Jack keep Bun in order ; for that indomitable animal got out of every prison they put him in , and led Jack a dreadful life during that last week . At all hours of the day and night that distracted boy would start up , crying , `` There he is again ! '' and dart out to give chase and capture the villain now grown too fat to run as he once did . The very night before the Fair , Frank was wakened by a chilly draught , and , getting up to see where it came from , found Jack 's door open and bed empty , while the vision of a white ghost flitting about the garden suggested a midnight rush after old Bun . Frank watched laughingly , till poor Jack came toward the house with the gentleman in gray kicking lustily in his arms , and then whispered in a sepulchral tone , -- `` Put him in the old refrigerator , he ca n't get out of that . '' Blessing him for the suggestion , the exhausted hunter shut up his victim in the new cell , and found it a safe one , for Bun could not burrow through a sheet of zinc , or climb up the smooth walls . Jill 's quilt was a very elaborate piece of work , being bright blue with little white stars all over it ; this she finished nicely , and felt sure no patient old lady could outdo it .