“I did until they could take up some boards in the floor and let me crawl out that way,” laughed Adam.
Violet watched him go about in different places in the barn to gather the eggs. She saw Margy and Mun Bun climbing about in the haymow, and then she forgot about her little brother and sister for a few moments, as Adam found a nest with more than a dozen eggs in it and called Violet to look at them.
When she returned to the middle of the barn she could not see either Mun Bun or Margy.
“Where are you?” she called.
Back came the answer, but in queer, muffled voices.
“We’re in the hay,” roared Mun Bun.
“And we can’t get out and it’s dark!” wailed Margy.
“What has happened to them?” Violet asked Adam North.
CHAPTER IX
WHEN THE COWS CAME HOME
The hired man carefully set down the basket of eggs he had gathered from different places in the barn. Then he looked up toward the haymow. This mow was where the hay was piled in the barn to be kept dry so it could be fed to the horses.