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was the tent-house, to look. Surely enough, there stood Toby, and in his mouth was the piece of wood that Bunny had tied to the string that was fast to the bell which hung in a tree back of the tent. Every time Toby raised and lowered his head--"bowing" Bunny and Sue called it--he pulled on the string and rang the bell. "Oh, how do you s'pose he came to do it?" asked Sue. "I don't know," Bunny answered. "We never told him, and we never showed him. I guess it's a new trick he's learned!" "But how did he get out of his stable to come to do it?" Sue went on. That was easy to answer. Bunker Blue, who came up every day from the dock to clean out the stall and brush Toby down, had left the door open, and, as the pony was not tied in his box-stall, he easily walked out. He strolled over to where the children were playing, and rang the bell. "Just zactly like he was coming to call," Sue said afterward. When Toby saw the children come out of the tent he went up to them and rubbed his velvety nose against them. That was his way of asking for sugar or other things that he liked. "I haven't any sugar," said Bunny, "but I can give you a piece of cookie. Maybe you'll like that." And Toby seemed to like it very much. "Maybe he'll do the bell-ringing trick again, if you put a piece of cookie on the stick," said Sue. "Maybe," agreed Bunny. He fastened a bit of cookie on the wooden handle, and, surely enough, Toby nibbled it off, ringing the bell as he did so. "But what made him ring it first, when there wasn't any cookie on?" asked Sue. Bunny did not know this, but he said: "We'll ask Mr. Tallman, the next time we see him, if he taught Toby this trick." "Maybe he did," said Sue. "Anyhow, we love you, Toby!" and she put her arms around the pony's neck. Bunny and Sue were wondering how Toby learned to ring the bell, and they were just going to make him do it again, when Sadie West came running into the yard. "Oh, Sue!" exclaimed the little girl. "There's a great, big, shiny wagon out in the front of your house!" "A shiny wagon!" exclaimed Bunny. "What do you mean?" "I mean it's got all looking glasses on it! Come and see!" The three children, forgetting all about Toby for the moment, hurried around the side path. What were they going to see? CHAPTER XV RED CROSS MONEY Surely enough, in front of the Brown house was a wagon, painted red and yellow, and, as little Sadie West h
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