"Moo! Moo!"
"Isn't it too bad she couldn't sleep here?" asked Sue.
"She's too big," declared Bunny. "But Sue, did you see two of her horns crumpled or only one?"
"Why, Bunny, I—I guess it was two, but I'm not sure. What makes you ask me that?"
Before Bunny could answer his mother called:
"Come now, you children have been up long enough. Get back to bed or you'll want to sleep so late in the morning that it will be dinner time before you get up. The elephant-cow has gone away. Uncle Tad will lead her to the foot of the hill, near the brook, where she can get a drink of water and she won't bother you any more. So go back to your cots."
Bunny and Sue went. They could hear Uncle Tad leading the elephant cow, as they called her, through the bushes, and hear him talking to her.
"Come bossy! Come on now. That's a good cow!"
The cow seemed to lead along easily enough, and pretty soon no more noises could be heard in camp except the chirping of the crickets or the songs of the katydids and katydidn'ts.
Bunny and Sue covered themselves up in their cots, for it was cool getting up in the middle of the night. They both tried to go to sleep, but found it not so easy as they had hoped.