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get another dog, Daddy Brown, to keep them away."

"Oh, don't get a dog!" cried Bunny and Sue together. "Splash is the best
dog that ever was!"

"Yes. But he is so friendly with everybody that he would just as soon a
tramp came up to the tent as some of the farm peddlers," said Mrs.
Brown. "He hardly ever barks unless he is playing with you children,
and he is so good-natured."

"Oh, we never could give up Splash," said Bunny, and Sue nodded her head
to show that she felt the same way about it.

"Maybe you can get another dog, who will bark, Mother. Then we could
hitch Splash and him up together and have a team," went on Bunny.

"Splash would never pull the way the other dog wanted to go," said Uncle
Tad. "I guess, before we think of more dogs we'll just go over to the
Indian village and find out what they know about the missing toy train."

"Yes, that would be a good plan," said Mr. Brown. "Suppose we go
together, Uncle Tad."

So, after breakfast, when another search had been made about the camp to
make sure the train was not hidden behind something, the two men started
off. Bunny kept on searching about the tents for his missing toy, and
Sue played with her Teddy Bear, tying her on the back of Splash, the
dog, to make believe Sallie Malinda was having a pony ride.

When Father Brown and Uncle Tad came back the children ran eagerly to
them. Mr. Brown shook his head.

"No," he said, slowly, "there is no trace of the toy train in the
Indians' village, and Eagle Feather and his men say they know nothing
about it. They say they were not away from their camp all night. They
even let us search their tents and cabins, and were very good-natured
about it."

"That doesn't prove anything," said Uncle Tad. "If they had hidden the
toy train it would be in a place where we could never find it. I guess
we'll have to let it go."

"Could any one else have taken it?" asked Mrs. Brown.

"Yes, of course. But one of the Indians seems most likely. They probably
heard what Eagle Feather told about how the train ran and one of their
men crawled up in the night and took it from the tent while we were all
asleep."

"Well, maybe so, but I don't believe Eagle Feather did any such thing as
that," said Mother Brown.

"Nor I," said Bunny, and Sue nodded her head. "It was a tramp."

Mr. Brown promised Bunny a new train as soon as he should go back to the
city, but that would not be for a few days.

"Oh dear!" cried Bunny.