und near the back of the automobile, Mrs. Brown
pointed to some smoke that was to be seen coming up through the trees,
not far away.

"That looks like some one camping over there," she said to her husband.

"Maybe it is. There are several bands of Gypsies around here," he said.
"It may be some of them."

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue looked at one another. They were both
thinking of the same thing. Could these be the Gypsies who had taken
grandpa's horses?

The smoke rose higher and higher through the trees, as Mr. and Mrs.
Brown, with the help of Bunker, began to wash the supper dishes. Bunny
and Sue walked a little distance away from the car, toward the smoke.

"Don't go too far!" their mother called to them.

"We won't," answered Bunny.

CHAPTER VII

THE WOODLAND CAMP

The two children walked slowly down the road, at the side of which,
under some big willow trees, the automobile was drawn up for the night,
which would soon come. Mrs. Brown was busy making up the beds. One for
Bunker Blue was to be made on the ground, right under the automobile
itself. An extra cot had been brought along for him, but it was folded
up in the automobile.

Mr. Brown was busy looking over the machinery of the engine, or motor,
that made the automobile go. He wanted to be sure it had not broken, so
they would be able to go on again in the morning, and finally get to
grandpa's farm.

"Where are you going, Bunker?" called Bunny, as he and Sue saw the big,
red-haired boy start down the road with a pail on his arm.

"I'm going for water," Bunker replied.

"Why, we have some in the ice box," cried Sue, for she had had a glass a
little while before. "You can drink that water, Bunker."

"Oh, _I_ don't want a drink, Sue. It's the automobile that wants one,"
Bunker answered.

"How funny!" laughed Sue. "Automobiles can't drink."

"Oh, yes, they can," replied Bunker. "I have to pour water in ours so
the engine won't get too hot. It doesn't exactly drink it, but it needs
it to cool itself off. That's why I'm going for water now."

"I'll come with you," offered Bunny. And of course where Bunny went, Sue
went too. So the brother and sister were soon walking with Bunker down
to the spring.

There he filled the pail with water, and, coming back with it, he poured
it into what is called the radiator of the automobile--the place where
the water itself is kept cool so it will cool the hot engine.

"There!" exclaimed Bunker,