"Wait a minute. I isn't hided yet!" cried Mun Bun, and Laddie, who had picked out a good place behind a pile of boards on the first floor of the old barn, saw his little brother going up the stairs that led to a loft over the place where the horses used to be stabled.
"Don't fall, Mun Bun!" called Laddie in a whisper.
"I won't!" answered the little fellow.
"I'll count a hundred more," offered Tad, and this time, when he called "ready or not I'm coming," no one objected. They were all well hidden.
When Tad went away from "home," to look for Russ and the others, Laddie managed to slip in "free," so he did not have to be "it." Russ also tried it, but he was not so lucky, and he was "spied" by Tad, and it was Russ's turn to blind his eyes next.
"Where's Mun Bun?" asked Russ, as Tad beat him to the "home."
"He went up there," and Laddie pointed to the stairs.
"Oh, he oughtn't go up there!" exclaimed Russ. "He might fall. Come on down, Mun Bun," he called.
"All right," was the answer, faint and far away. There was the sound of footsteps on the loft floor overhead and then suddenly the noise of a fall, and the voice of Mun Bun burst out crying.
"Oh, I falled! I falled!" wailed the little fellow. "I falled down a hole, and I can't get out!"