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lash is coming back, so I guess it wasn't anything." He and Uncle Tad could see the children's dog walking back to his bed in the tent. Splash slept on a piece of old carpet. The dog was wagging his tail. "What is it Splash? Did you see any tramps?" asked Mr. Brown. Splash did not answer, of course, but he wagged his tail as he always did when he was with his friends. "I guess it couldn't have been anything," Mr. Brown went on. "Maybe a squirrel or chipmunk was looking for some crumbs in the dining-tent, and knocked down the pans. I'll just take a look out there to make sure." Mr. Brown and Uncle Tad went outside the tent. Splash did not go with them. He seemed to think everything was all right. "Did you find him, Daddy?" asked Bunny, when his father came back. "No, son. I don't believe there was anyone. I saw where the pans had been knocked down, but that was all." Bunny was given the drink of water he wanted and soon was asleep. The others, too, became quiet and slept. But in the morning Mrs. Brown, in getting breakfast, found that a piece of bacon and some eggs had been taken from the ice box. "The eggs and bacon were in the refrigerator all right when I washed up the supper dishes last night," she said. "I counted on having them for breakfast. Now they're gone!" "Then there must have been someone in our camp, snooping around last night," said Daddy Brown. "It was a tramp, after all. And when he helped himself to something to eat he knocked down the pans. That's how it happened." "I suppose so," said Mother Brown. "Well, I'm sure if the poor tramp was hungry I'm glad he got something to eat. But I wish he had not taken my bacon and eggs." However, there was plenty else to eat in Camp Rest-a-While, so no one went hungry. "I wonder if it was the same tramp that took the pie," said Bunny as he finished the last of his glass of milk. "He must be a hungry tramp to eat a whole pie, and all those eggs, and the big piece of bacon," said Bunker Blue. "Oh, I guess the things he took lasted him for several meals," Mr. Brown said. "The funny part of it is, though, that Splash did not bark. When he ran out of the tent last night the tramp could not have been far away. And yet Splash did not bark, as he always does when strangers are around at night. I think that's queer." "So do I," put in Uncle Tad. "Maybe Splash knew the tramp." "Splash doesn't like tramps," said Bunny. "Well, he must h
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