"That's Dix and Splash!" exclaimed Bunny. "And something must have happened. Splash wouldn't bark that way if there was nothing the matter."
"Here comes Dix now," said Sue, looking out of the automobile window. "And oh, Bunny! Look what he's brought home with him!"
"What is it?" asked Bunny, whose bunk was on the other side of the big car.
"It's a cow. Dix is leading home a cow on the end of a rope!" exclaimed Sue.
CHAPTER IX
TWO DISAPPEARANCES
For a moment the two children looked out of the automobile windows at the strange sight. Then, unable longer to think of going to bed when there was likely to be some excitement, they both came out from behind the curtains that screened off their cots, and cried together:
"Dix has got a cow!"
"Dix has got a what?" asked Mrs. Brown, thinking she had not understood.