"I could look right down to the bottom of the spring," he said. "It's quite deep, even if it isn't big. But Tom wasn't in it. There was a big bullfrog in the water, though."
"Was the frog big enough to—to eat Tom?" asked Sue, her eyes wide open.
Sue's mother and father laughed, and Bunny said:
"A bullfrog couldn't eat anybody!"
"They could if they was a big enough frog; couldn't they, Daddy?" asked Sue.
"Well, I don't know," replied Mr. Brown. "Then you couldn't see anything of Tom, Bunker?"
"No, sir, not a thing."
"Had he filled the pail with water?" Uncle Tad wanted to know.
"The pail was empty, and it was tipped over," Bunker said. "I don't know whether Tom had filled it, and then something had knocked it over, or not. Anyhow, the pail had no water in it, so I dipped it into the spring to fill it, and came on back to tell you."
"That was right," said Mr. Brown. "We'll go over and look around. Tom may have seen some new kind of bird, or something like that, and have wandered off in the woods, following it."