"That's what my dog Tramp and I would like," said the ragged man. "It's no fun staying in one place all the while. But if you children are not away off here looking for milk, what are you here for, I'd like to know?"
"I'm looking for my Teddy bear with the blinking 'lectric lights for eyes," said Sue.
"What makes you think you'll find him here, off in the woods?" asked Mr. Bixby, after a pause.
"Well, somebody took my Teddy bear, which is a her, not a him, and is named Sallie Malinda, from our tent," went on the little girl; "and, of course, as a bear likes a wood, maybe they brought her here."
"And my train of cars is gone, too," said Bunny, as he told of that having been taken from the tent.
"Why, that is surprising!" cried the ragged man. "Both your nice toys taken! Who could have done it?"
"Well, I did think maybe I left my train on the track with the batteries switched on so it would go," said Bunny. "But I left the track made into a round ring, and of course, if my train did get to going by some accident, it would just keep on going around and around like Splash chasing his tail, and wouldn't go out of the tent."
"Of course," agreed the ragged man.
"And Bunny thought Sallie Malinda had walked off by herself," said Sue, "but daddy said she couldn't, for there is nothing in her to wind up. So that couldn't happen."