Sonny Boy and Otto still think there was nothing in the “Wonder of the World” to beat those white mice.
Within a week after he returned to Poppleton, Tom told Sonny Boy that if he would only join the Guards as the fellows wanted him to he would surely be chosen captain!
“It would sound well—‘Captain Sonny Boy Plummer, of the Poppleton Guards,’” said Tom. And when I last heard from Poppleton that was what Sonny Boy was called—Captain Sonny Boy Plummer, of the Poppleton Guards!
And every one of the Plummers was wishing to be the one that Aunt Kate would borrow next.
And in a little while none of them remembered that they had ever thought it queer that Aunt Kate wanted to borrow Sonny Boy!
[THE END]