"And I want to see alligators," added Bunny. "Do you think daddy and mother will come along on the next train?" he asked.
Nutty, the tramp, shook his head.
"I don't know what to think about you children," he said. "It's plain to me that your mother doesn't know where you are, or your father, either. And by this time your mother must be worried because you haven't come back to her where she's waiting on the station platform. About how long ago was it you climbed into the freight car to get my kitten?"
"About an hour," answered Bunny, after a little thought.
"Oh, it was five hours," said Sue, who did not have so good an idea of time as had her brother. "It was maybe six hours and I want my mother!"
She seemed on the verge of tears, and Nutty, understanding this, quickly said:
"Let's give Toddle some more milk!"
"Oh, let me feed him!" begged Sue. And as she poured some milk from the bottle into the sardine tin and watched pussy lap it up, the little girl forgot her tears.
"When do you think the train will stop?" asked Bunny, after he had watched Sue feed the little kitten.
"Oh, pretty soon now, I guess," answered the old man. "Are you getting tired?"