“You shouldn’t go out on the platform when the train is moving,” chided his father. “You might be jolted off.”
“The train wasn’t moving when I went out there,” explained the little boy, as he went to his seat beside his sister. “I came in as soon as it began to move.”
“Why did you go outside?” asked Bunny’s father.
“I wanted to throw away my chewing gum,” he explained. “I got through with it, and I thought maybe if I dropped it on the floor of the car somebody would step on it. So I went outside to throw it away.”
“Well, that was a right thing to do,” said Mr. Brown. “But it would have been safer to have thrown it out of a window. Don’t go out on the platform again.”
“No, sir, I won’t,” promised the little boy.
The excitement was over, and the Browns began to enjoy the train ride. Of course it was more fun for Bunny and Sue than it was for their parents, since the little ones had not traveled as much as had the older folks.
The ride to Philadelphia took all the morning and part of the afternoon, but the day was broken in a very delightful way, for the children, at least, when they went to the dining car for lunch.
“I love to eat in a car, don’t you, Bunny?” whispered Sue.
“Yes,” he answered. “It’s fun to see the trees go whizzing by and the telegraph poles skip along while you’re eating.”