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w it would soon be night. He began to wish, more than ever, that he and Sue were with their father and mother. "Do you see him?" asked Sue, after Bunny had had time to look up and down the railroad. "No," was the answer. "Nutty isn't here. I guess he fell all the way out." Sue scrambled to her feet to walk over and stand beside Bunny. She was tired of the dark car and of not being able to look from a window. That was half the fun of traveling--looking from windows. Sue was half way across the car on her way to join Bunny when the train went around a curve, and so sudden it was that the freight car swayed and jolted, and Sue lost her balance. Down she sat on the floor, rather hard. She was not hurt, but she was surprised and she lost her breath for the moment. If Bunny had not held tightly to the edge of the door he might have been tossed out. "I guess I'd better not stand there," Bunny said, as he thought of what might have happened if he had been tossed out. He could not have got back in again when the train was moving, and Sue would have been left all alone. "Come and stay with me," begged Sue, giving up the idea of going to the partly opened door. "We'll have to light another candle pretty soon, 'cause this one is 'most gone." This was true. The candle-end which Nutty had lighted was burned almost to the bottom of the tin can to which it was fastened by some of the melted grease. "Maybe there are more candles," suggested Bunny. "Let's look." Nutty, as has been said, had left all his things behind him in a corner of the freight car. Delving in among the old bags, in which he always carried his "baggage," the children found some more nuts. There was so much of this food that they would not be hungry for another day at least, and there was another bottle of water. "But there's no more milk for pussy," said Sue. "Well, he's got a little left in his bottle," Bunny answered. "And he can have some of our water." "Water isn't good to eat--it's only good to drink," declared Sue. "Maybe Toddle will eat nuts," suggested her brother. But when they put some down in front of the cat it only smelled of them, played with them by knocking them about with its paw, and rubbed up against Sue. "Oh, well, maybe he won't be hungry," Bunny said. Night was now coming on, and Bunny and Sue were alone in the freight car--that is, except for Toddle, and while the children loved the kitten he was not as much
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