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little tired, but happy. "Did you think we'd make so much money for the Red Cross, Bunny?" asked Sue, as they drove along. "No," said Bunny, "I didn't. But I knew this Sunday-school picnic was in the woods. And it was a good place for us, wasn't it?" "Fine," agreed Sue. And when they got home they found their father and mother waiting for them, as it was late in the afternoon. "And you made three dollars! That's fine!" said Daddy Brown. During the rest of the week Bunny and Sue made another dollar by giving children rides in the pony cart. And they drove on an errand for Uncle Tad who gave them a quarter, so they had a nice sum to turn over to the Red Cross Society when the time was up. It was about a week after the picnic, when one morning, Bunny, who was up first, ran out to the barn to see Toby, as he often did before breakfast. But, to the surprise of the little boy, the pony was not in his stall, though the barn door was locked, Bunny having to open it with a key before he could get in. Greatly excited, when he did not see his pet in the box-stall, Bunny ran back to the house. "Oh, Mother! Mother!" he cried. "Toby's gone!" "What?" "Toby's gone!" cried Bunny again. "He isn't in his stable! Oh, come out and look!" And I wonder where the Shetland pony was? CHAPTER XIX THE SEARCH Mrs. Brown hurried out of the house after Bunny, who ran back to the stable. Sue, looking out of the window of her room upstairs, saw her brother and called: "What's the matter, Bunny?" "Oh, Sue," he answered, not stopping even to look back, "Toby is gone! Our nice pony isn't in his stable!" "Oh! Oh!" cried Sue, and she could think of nothing else to say just then. But you can guess that she very quickly finished dressing in order to go down and look for herself to see what had happened to Toby. Meanwhile Mrs. Brown and Bunny reached the stable. "Are you sure Toby isn't here?" asked Bunny's mother. "I--I looked everywhere for him," answered the little boy, who was slightly out of breath from running. "I looked all over and I can't see him anywhere." Mrs. Brown looked, but no Toby was to be seen. The barn was not a large one, and there were not many places where a horse, or even a small pony, could be hidden. Bunny and his mother looked in all the places they could think of--in the harness room and wagon room, and they even went upstairs to the haymow. "For Toby is a trick pony, and
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