"Whom did you see?" asked a teacher. "Be quiet and tell us what it was."
"Was it a snake?" asked one excited little girl.
"No, it wasn't a snake," said a boy somewhat older than Bunny. "It was a great big man—awful dark-looking—and he had a red handkerchief on his neck, and gold rings in his ears, and he was asleep by the spring."
CHAPTER XVIII
TOBY IS GONE
Three or four of the Sunday-school teachers gathered around the boys and girls who had come back from the spring and were so excited about having seen a dark man asleep under a bush.
"What did he look like?" asked one teacher.
"Oh, he—he was terrible!" said one little girl.