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company as a big dog would have been. On and on rumbled the train. Where they were now Bunny and Sue had not the least idea. Bunny was still looking among Nutty's things for another candle-end to light when the first one should burn out, which seemed likely to happen very soon, when the children suddenly became aware that the train was slowing up. "Oh, maybe it's going to stop!" exclaimed Sue. And then, just as the candle burned down and went out in a splutter of grease, leaving the car in darkness, the train came to a slow stop, with a creaking and squealing of brakes. "Oh, Bunny! Bunny!" cried Sue, "now we can get off." "Yes," said Bunny, "I guess we can." It was easy to cross the car now, for it was not moving. Bunny hurried to the door which Nutty had left open, and the little boy looked out. In the early evening twilight he and Sue could see a patch of woods and some fields. They did not know what the place was. The freight car in which they had ridden had stopped along the way at a place where a high bank was close to the track. From the freight car to the bank was only a few feet--a distance that Bunny and Sue could easily jump. "I'll go first!" offered Bunny, and he leaped to the ground. "I'm coming!" cried Sue, as she followed her brother, landing beside him with a thud. And then Bunny gave a little cry of surprise. "Why!" he exclaimed. "You--you brought Toddle with you!" "Course I did!" answered Sue. "Think I'd leave that little pussy behind in the car all alone?" "No," agreed Bunny. "I guess it's good you brought him." "What made the train stop?" asked Sue, as she snuggled the kitten down in her arms and stood beside Bunny. "Did Nutty make it stop, and is mother or daddy here?" "I don't know," Bunny answered, looking up and down the track. "I don't b'lieve mother is here--or father either," he went on. "And I don't see Nutty." "But what made the train stop?" Sue asked again. "The engine is getting a drink of water," Bunny answered, pointing down the track to a water tower, opposite which the engine had stopped. A man was standing on the pile of coal in the tender, or back part of the engine, and from the wayside tank a big iron pipe had been pulled over the opening in the tank tender. Through this pipe a stream of water was flowing. Bunny and Sue both knew, of course, that the engine did not exactly "drink" water. But they had been told this when quite young and they still
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