"Oh dear!" cried Bunny. "How can I wait that long?"
"You can play with my Teddy bear sometimes," said Sue kindly. Bunny thanked her, but it was easy to see he did not care much for such a girl's toy.
"My Sallie Malinda Teddy bear is as good as your toy train," said Sue. "She's better—for I have her and you haven't your train of cars."
"Well, I'm glad you like her," said Bunny. "But maybe your Teddy will go away in the night just as my train did."
"My Teddy can't run, even if her eyes can light up," said Sue, making the bear's eyes blink.
"My train didn't run away, it was tooken," said Bunny. "And some day I'm going to find the one that tooked it."
Bunny did not speak as his school teacher would have had him, but he meant the same thing as if he had spoken correctly.
"Well, they sha'n't touch my Teddy bear!" said Sue. "I'll take her to bed with me every night."
And she did, two or three times. Then, one night Sue forgot and left her wonderful Teddy bear out in the kitchen. And in the morning what do you suppose had happened?
In the morning Sue awakened early, and, missing her toy, which she thought she had taken to bed with her, she happened to remember that Sallie was left out in the kitchen.