Splash, who had been chained up by the hired man, so he would not follow the wagon, was now let loose. And oh! how glad he was to see Bunny Brown and his sister Sue!
Splash jumped about, barking and wagging his tail. He even tried to kiss Bunny and Sue with his red tongue.
"Oh, Splash!" cried Bunny. "I wish you had been to the picnic. Then you could have run after the tramps!"
"Well, the tramps ran anyhow, so it was all right," said Papa Brown. "Though the next time you see any rough men, Bunny, you had better come and tell me, or your mother, and not try to drive them away all by yourself."
"All right, I will, Daddy. But we'll take Splash to the next picnic anyhow. He was lonesome without us."
And I think Splash was.
"Well, now we'll have supper," said Grandma Brown. "That is if you children are hungry?"
"Oh, I am!" cried Sue, and Bunny said the same thing. The drive home had given them good appetites. But then children are very often hungry anyhow, even without picnics.
"Shall we have some of that nice cocoanut custard cake?" asked Bunny.
"Yes," his grandmother told him. "I'll get it from the pantry." But when she went there, the cupboard was not exactly bare, like Mother Hubbard's, but something had happened. For Grandma Brown cried: