, Sallie Malinda with
her 'lectric-light eyes."

"No," said Bunny, shaking his head. "My electric train takes up too much
room. I'm going to take my popgun that shoots corks, and maybe I can
scare away any cows that get in front of our auto."

"All right. But I'm going to take Sallie Malinda," declared Sue.

While she was getting it out from among her playthings, Bunny went out
to look at the big automobile again. He climbed up to the seat. Bunker
Blue, after bringing it up to the Brown house so Mrs. Brown could pack
in it the things she wanted, had gone back to the dock.

"I wish I could steer this machine," murmured Bunny as he took his seat
at the wheel. "I could, too, if they'd only let me. I wish they would."

He twisted the steering wheel to and fro, playing that he was guiding
the big car. Suddenly he heard a grinding sound, as when Bunker Blue had
been on the seat, and, to Bunny's astonishment, the big van, the wheel
of which he held, began to move slowly around the drive which circled
the Brown home.

CHAPTER V

WHERE IS SPLASH?

"Oh! Oh! Oh!" cried Bunny Brown, as he felt himself being carried along
in the automobile. "What has happened?"

The automobile kept on moving, and Bunny held his hands on the steering
wheel. He knew this must be done whenever any machine, like an
automobile, was moving.

"I've either got to stop it, or--or steer it along the curved path so it
won't run into anything," whispered Bunny Brown to himself. "I don't
know what makes me go but I'm going, and I'm keeping going, so I've got
to steer."

And steer Bunny did. Fortunately though the car was large, it was easily
steered, for Mr. Brown had it made that way so his wife could take the
wheel when she cared to.

Mrs. Brown could drive an ordinary automobile and she could steer well.
So while Mr. Brown was having the big auto-van made over he had the
steering part changed so that the steering wheel turned from side to
side very easily. And as Bunny was a sturdy chap he had no trouble about
this part.

The auto-van kept on moving and Bunny noticed that it was going up a
little hill in the driveway that went all the way around the house.

"I don't see what makes it go uphill all by itself," said Bunny to
himself, giving the steering wheel a little turn, as there was a curve
in the pathway just ahead of him. "If I were running _down_hill I'd know
what made it go--the same thing that makes my sled slide downhill in