eal baby bear to me."

"Why don't you call a Teddy bear he?" asked Bunny.

"'Cause she's a _girl_. Can't you tell by the name _Sallie Malinda_?"
asked Sue.

Bunny was about to continue talking to the effect that the _Teddy_ bear
ought to have a boy's name, when there came the sound of wheels outside
the tent, and a cheery voice called:

"Hello, everybody!"

"Oh, it's daddy!" cried Bunny and Sue together. "Daddy has come home!"

"They rushed out of the tent to meet him, to hug and kiss him, and for a
while he pretended to be smothered by the two little children who hung
about his neck.

"We went hunting for our toys which are lost," said Bunny.

"And we got lost ourselves," added Sue.

"But we got found again----"

"By a dog----"

"And a man----"

"And we had cookies----"

"And an Indian came to get heap big medicine----"

"And I'm going to cook a dinner----"

Thus the children called, one after the other, and I leave you to guess
who said what, for I can't do it myself as they talked too fast.

But at last they quieted down, and Mrs. Brown had a chance to talk to
her husband and tell him the news. Uncle Tad had, in the meanwhile, come
back, not being able to find the lost ones, and he was very glad to see
them safe in the camp.

Mr. Brown had come home early that day, but before long it was time for
supper. Bunny and Sue ate nearly as much as though they had had no
lunch and had eaten no cookies at the ragged man's cabin.

"And so you heard a queer buzzing noise in the hermit's cabin as you
were coming away?" asked Mr. Brown.

"Yes," said Bunny, "we did."

"I think I'll take a look up around there myself," said Mr. Brown, with
a nod at his wife across the table.

"Oh, is something going to happen?" asked Sue.

"And will you find our lost toys?" asked Bunny eagerly.

"No, I don't promise you that. In fact I have given them up for lost,
and have ordered new ones for you, though not such fancy ones. They are
altogether different. I'll have them for you to-morrow night."

This set the children into a wild guessing game as to what their father
had got, and they amused themselves until nearly bed time.

They did not notice that Mr. Brown left camp, nor that he wandered down
the road, in the direction of the home of the ragged man. When Mr.
Brown came back, after the children were in their cots, his wife asked
him:

"Did you find anything?"

"No, I can't say I did. I made a search around Bix