isn't going to be as easy to get that as it was the little
one," commented Ben Hall. "We'll have to work very hard to get that tent
to shore."

"I'll help," offered Bunny Brown, and the other boys laughed. Bunny was
so little to offer to help get the big tent on shore.

CHAPTER XX

THE MISSING MICE

The big tent, once used at the fair, but which the boys had now borrowed
for their circus, was all tangled up in the water. The ropes and cloth
were twisted and wound around among the sticks and stones, where the
tent had drifted, after the flood of the night before had carried it
away.

"Oh, we'll never get that out so we can use it," said Charlie Tenny, one
of the boys who was helping Ben, Bunker and the others.

"Yes, we'll get it out," said Ben. "We've got Bunny Brown to help us you
know."

Some of the boys laughed, and Bunny's face grew red.

"Now I mean just what I say!" cried Ben. "Bunny Brown is a brave little
chap, and if it hadn't been for him and his sister Sue we big fellows
wouldn't have thought of getting up a circus show. So it's a good thing
to have a chap like him with us, even if he is small."

Bunny felt better after this, and he thought Ben was very kind to speak
as he had done.

"Splash is here, too," said Bunny. "He can get hold of a rope and pull
like anything."

"That's right," said Bunker Blue. "Maybe Splash can help us. He is a
strong dog."

"It's a good thing the tent didn't go all the way down to the river,"
said Charlie. "Otherwise we might never have found it."

"Yes," put in Bunker. "And now let's see if we can get it to shore. It's
not going to be easy."

The boys worked hard, and Bunny helped. He could wade out, where the
water was not too deep, and pull on the ropes. There were a great many
of these ropes to hold the tent together, but now they were all tangled.

But Ben Hall seemed to know how to untangle them, and soon the work of
getting the tent to shore began to look easier. Splash did his share of
work, too. He pulled on the ropes Bunker Blue handed him, shutting his
strong, white teeth on them, and straining and tugging until you would
have thought that Splash, all alone, would pull the tent ashore.

And, finally, with all the boys and the dog and Bunny Brown pulling and
tugging, they got the tent out of the water. It was still all twisted
and tangled, but now that it was on shore it was easier to make smooth.

"We'll have to get a wagon to haul it back t