"Well, we'd better oil it and let it stand all night to take off the rust. For if it gets rusty it won't run."
Bunny did not want this to happen, so he left his toy railroad out in the kitchen tent that night, near the stove in which a little fire was kindled.
No cows stuck their heads into the bedrooms of the tent houses that night, and Bunny and Sue slept soundly. So did Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Uncle Tad, but some one must have been around the camp with very soft feet in the darkness. For when Bunny awakened early, and went out to have a look at his toy railroad, he set up a cry:
"It's gone! It's gone! Some one has taken it!"
"Taken what?" asked his father.
"My toy locomotive, my cars, the tracks, batteries and everything! Oh, dear! My toy train is gone!"
CHAPTER VIII
"WHERE HAS SALLIE GONE?"
"What's the matter, Bunny?" asked Uncle Tad, who, as usual, had gotten up early to make the fire in the kitchen stove. It had gone out during the night, though a late fire had been built to make warmth for Bunny's train.