"There! I'm safe!" thought Nutty. "Bunny and Sue will be all right, too, I hope!"
And the little boy and girl, left alone in the freight car, were being carried farther and farther away, for the train did not stop. As soon as Nutty had leaped off it started up again.
CHAPTER XVI
THE JOLLY SWITCHMAN
For some time Bunny Brown and his sister Sue did not know that they had been left alone. They were playing with the kitten and they supposed their tramp friend Nutty was looking out of the partly opened door, watching for a chance to get them off the train. It was not until Sue grew tired of setting Toddle up on his hind legs, only to have the kitten slump over in a heap, that she looked up and saw the door opened wider and Nutty gone.
"Oh, Bunny!" cried Sue. "Look!"
Bunny, who was taking some more nuts from one of the tin boxes the tramp had left in the corner, glanced at his sister.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
"Nutty is gone!" exclaimed Sue. "Oh, Bunny! I guess he fell out of the door! It's open wider! Oh, poor Nutty has falled out!"