ess I'd better go over and see
about it."
"You can ride back with us," said Mr. Kendall. "My wife and I are going
right back to the circus."
"Oh, can't we go?" cried Bunny.
"Please!" begged Sue.
"Not this time, my dears," said Mother Brown. "But if all goes well, you
shall go to-morrow, when daddy comes back. The circus will be here for
two days."
Bunny and Sue were glad to hear this. Grandpa Brown rode off with Mr.
and Mrs. Kendall; and Bunny and Sue were given a good dinner and put to
sleep that afternoon, for they were tired, sleepy and hungry.
It was late in the afternoon when Bunny and Sue awoke. They went out on
the porch, and the first thing they saw was Grandpa Brown coming down
the road, riding on one horse and leading another which trotted by the
side of the first.
"Oh, look!" cried Bunny. "Grandpa did get his horses back from the
Gypsies!"
"That's just what I did, little man!" cried Grandpa Brown, as he rode up
the drive. "Those were my horses you saw the Gypsy men have, though of
course you only guessed it."
"Are they really yours?" asked Mother Brown.
"Yes, the same ones the Gypsies took. If it had not been for Bunny and
Sue I might never have gotten them back."
"I thought we'd find them!" cried Bunny. "We found Aunt Lu's diamond
ring, and now we have found grandpa's horses."
"Good luck!" cried Sue, clapping her hands.
And the horses did really belong to Grandpa Brown. He told how he got
them back.
"The Gypsy man, who borrowed my team, just before you folks came to the
farm," grandpa said to Bunny, Sue and Mother Brown, "that Gypsy man
really meant to bring my horses back, when he got through with them, but
he was taken ill. Then some of the bad Gypsies in the tribe ran away
with the team--they took them far off and kept them.
"Where they went I don't know, but to-day they came back, and, seeing
the circus, the Gypsies thought they could sell my horses, to do
tricks, maybe, though I never trained them to do any more than pull a
plow or wagon.
"Anyhow, when I got to the circus I found one of the circus men was just
going to buy my horses from the Gypsies. I told him the team was mine,
and that the Gypsies had no right to sell it to him. The Gypsies ran
away when they saw me, and the circus man gave me my horses. So I have
them back. But if Bunny and Sue had not gone to the circus I never would
have known about my horses."
"And did you see the elephants?" asked Sue.
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