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ad said, it had on the sides many bright pieces of looking glass, which glittered in the sun. "I wonder what it's for?" asked Bunny. "It makes your eyes hurt," added Sue, shading hers with her hand as she looked at the bright wagon. "Maybe it's your grandpa or your Aunt Lu come to see you," suggested Sadie, for she had heard Bunny and Sue tell about their relations. "They wouldn't come in a wagon like _that!_" Bunny exclaimed. "But who is in it?" asked Sue. "Maybe it's a circus!" ventured Sadie. "Nope! 'Tisn't a circus," Bunny said. "'Cause if it was a circus there'd be an elephant or a camel, and you don't see any of them, do you?" "No," said Sue, "I don't." "I don't, either," agreed Sadie. Just then a tall, dark man, whose face looked like that of Tony, the bootblack down at the cigar store, came from the wagon, the back of which opened with a little door, and from which a flight of three steps could be let down. "Oh, I know what it is!" cried Bunny. "What?" asked Sue. "It's gypsies," Bunny went on, as the tall, dark man, who had a red handkerchief around his neck, walked slowly toward the Brown home. "That's a gypsy wagon!" "How do you know?" Sadie questioned. "'Cause I see the earrings." "A wagon hasn't got earrings!" exclaimed Sue. "I didn't mean the _wagon_, I mean the _man_--that man that looks as dark as Tony the bootblack," said Bunny. "See 'em!" Then, indeed, the two little girls noticed the shiny rings of gold in the man's ears. And when he smiled, which he did at the children, they saw his white teeth glisten in the sun. "That wagon's red and yellow," said Sue in a whisper. "It's just like Mr. Tallman's box, isn't it, Bunny?" "What box?" asked Sadie West. "The one he lost with all his money in," explained Sue. "No, it wasn't money, it was--it was--oh, well, he lost something, anyhow," she said, "and he had to sell Toby to us." "Yes, and I'm glad he did," said Bunny. "Yes, his box was red and yellow, I 'member he said so. Maybe it's some relation to this gypsy wagon." "Are you sure it's a gypsy cart?" asked Sadie, as the dark man kept on walking from his gaily painted wagon toward the Brown front gate. "Sure, it's a gypsy wagon," said Bunny. "Charlie Star, or one of the boys, I forget who, told me some gypsies were camping over by the pond at Springdale, and maybe this is some of them." "I'm not afraid," said Sue. "Pooh! Course not! Nobody need be s
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