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An' you all never cared a cent about it either, or you'd a founded me quicker 'n this 'n' I've been hungry fur nineteen hours, 'n' I guess I've been gone till December, by the feelin', but you was too lazy to found me 'f I freezed to def 'n' there ain't but one singul boy of me round the whole camp, 'n' 't would serveded you right if I had got losted for ever; then I bet you wouldn't had much fun Fourth of July 'thout my two bits 'n' my fire-crackers!
He shut down the umbrella sail, and took off the rope. Then he tied the boat to a tree. He got out, and helped Sue. "Where's our camp?" the little girl wanted to know. Bunny looked across the lake. He could not see the white tents. Neither could Sue. "Bunny Bunny," said the little girl slowly. "I I guess we're losted again." "I I guess so, too," agreed Bunny Brown.
"You can't have two mammas, you know," said Betty, gently. "Try and tell us right dearie, and we'll take you home." "I dot two mammas," announced the child, positively. "Mamma Carrie live down there, mamma Mary live off there. I be at mamma Carrie's house, and I turn back, den I get losted. Take me home!" She seemed on the verge of tears again. "Here!" exclaimed Grace, in desperation.
Ever since that time when she had made the first appeal to his chivalry when he had met her, a chubby little scrap of only three scant summers, wandering off down the Pike, every little footfall taking her farther and farther away from the Farm, and she had raised her eyes, brimming over with tears in their wonderful tangle of black lashes, and said, with a tiny catch in her voice, "I'm losted.
Up and down, back and forth, they walked, looking beside big rocks or stumps, behind fallen logs and under clumps of bushes they peered, but no Tom could they find. "Oh, he's losted, just like we was losted," said Sue, sadly. "Yes, I guess he is," agreed Bunny. "Splash, can't you find Tom?" The big dog barked: "Bow-wow!" But what he meant by that no one knew. Splash, however, could not find Tom.
"He was here a minute ago, for I saw him." "Maybe he's losted," said Sue. She and Bunny got lost or "losted," as they called it, so often, that Sue thought that trouble could very easily happen to anyone. "No, he isn't lost," said Daddy Brown. "Tom! Tom!" he called. "Where are you?" "I'm here," was the answer, and Tom stood up.
Splash put his cold nose on me and woke me up. What are you all lookin' at me for?" Sue asked, as she saw the circle of boys, her brother among them, staring at her. "We we thought you were lost, Sue," said Bunny. "And we came to find you." "I I wasn't losted at all!" Sue protested. "I was here all the while! I just went to sleep!" And that was what had happened.
"We ought to get a policeman," went on Flossie. "Policemans can find losted people. One found me once." "That isn't a bad idea," spoke Uncle Daniel. "I think perhaps I had better speak to some of the town constables who are on duty here." "Suppose we look in the big main tent," said Tom Mason. "Freddie may have wandered back in there to try and turn a somersault on one of the trapezes."
"Frank told me so," he went on, "and I saw them eat hay. They eat a awful lot, and one of them took all my peanuts." "Well, I'll buy you some more," said Uncle Daniel with a laugh. "You deserve it after the trouble you have had getting lost and all that." "I I wasn't losted!" declared Freddie again. "I knew "
"Freddie isn't afraid of water he's a fireman papa's little fat fireman, and I'm papa's little fat fairy, and Freddie's losted and and oh, dear!" sobbed Flossie, as she thought of her missing brother. "Come on, let's start in all together and find him," suggested Harry. "He must be hid somewhere around here." "Away down under the hay," suggested Tom Mason. "Hush!
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