"And we're never going to let you be tooken away again!" added Sue.
As for Toby—and it really was the children's pet—he seemed as glad to see them as they were to see him. He rubbed his velvety nose first on Bunny and then against Sue's dress, and whinnied in delight.
"Now, we'll take you right home!" declared Bunny.
"But we'll find Splash first," added his sister.
"Oh, yes, we want our dog, too," said Bunny.
He was trying to loosen the knot in the rope by which Toby was tied to a stake in the ground, and Sue was helping, when a shadow on the grass told the children that some one was walking toward them. They looked up quickly, to see a ragged gypsy man, with a straggly black moustache, scowling at them. In his hand he held a knotted stick.
A RAGGED GYPSY MAN WAS SCOWLING AT THEM.
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"Here! What you young'uns doin' with that pony?" he fairly growled.