"Watch me jump!" cried Bunny. He gave a run and landed on something in the pile of soft straw. Something in the straw grunted and yelled. Then some one sat up. Bunny Brown rolled over and over out of the way.
"Oh! Oh!" cried Sue. "What is it?"
But she did not need to ask twice. She saw a big boy, dressed in a funny clown's suit, standing up in the straw. Bunny was now sitting up, and he, too, was looking at the clown.
"Why—why," said Sue, "It's Ben! It's our Ben!"
"So it is!" cried Bunny.
"Yes," answered Ben, rubbing his eyes, for he had been asleep in the straw when Bunny jumped on him. "Yes, I've come back. I stayed in the field, under a haystack all night, but I couldn't stand it any longer. I had to come back."
"What'd you run away for?" asked Bunny.
"Because I was afraid he'd catch me," Ben answered.
"Do you mean that—that man," whispered Bunny.
"Yes."