had happened. "Well, Sue got all messed up with
the white and yellow of the eggs. Maybe there weren't just thirteen, but
there was a lot anyway. But I'm glad this wasn't a hen's nest. Maybe
I'll find the rest of my railroad now. Let's look."

"Somebody must have hid the car here in the hay after they took it,"
said Tom. "Who do you s'pose it was?"

"We thought it might be some of the Indians," said Bunny. "But my father
made a search down in their village. He couldn't find anything, though.
Now _we_ have found something."

"You don't s'pose Mr. Bixby would take it, or my Teddy bear with
flashing lights for eyes, do you?" asked Sue of the ragged boy.

"I never saw anything like that around his place, and I was there two or
three weeks," said Tom.

"We didn't see you when we were there," said Bunny.

"No, I was mostly weeding up in the potato patch on the hill. I'd have
my breakfast, take a bit of lunch with me, and then not come home until
'most dark. That's why you didn't see me. But I never took notice of any
electrical trains or toy bears around his place. I don't guess he took
'em."

"Nor I," said Bunny. "But I'm going to look in the hay for more."

He did, the others helping, while even Splash pawed about, though I
don't suppose he knew for what he was searching. More than likely he
thought it was for a bone, for that was about all he ever dug for.

But search as the two Brown children and Tom did, they found no more
parts of the toy railroad.

"The one who took it must have thrown the car away because it was too
heavy to carry," said Bunny. "It was a pretty heavy toy, and I always
carried it in two parts myself. Besides the car wasn't any good to make
the train go. The electric locomotive pulled itself and the cars. I
guess they just threw this car away.

"But I'm going to keep it, for I might find the tracks and the engine
and the other cars, and then I'd be all right again."

"Yes," said Tom, "you would. But it is funny for somebody up in these
big woods to take toy trains and Teddy bears. That's what I can't
understand."

"And I can't understand that man sticking needles into you--a funny kind
of needles he didn't have to pull out and that stopped hurting you so
soon," said Bunny.

"It's all queer!" declared Sue. "Come on, we'll have some more fun
sliding down the hay."

This they did, and even Splash joined in. But though they slid all over
the hay, and kept a sharp lookout for any more part