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And when he helped himself to something to eat he knocked down the pans. That's how it happened." "I suppose so," said Mother Brown. "Well, I'm sure if the poor tramp was hungry I'm glad he got something to eat. But I wish he had not taken my bacon and eggs." However, there was plenty else to eat in Camp Rest-a-While, so no one went hungry.
Surely enough, there was a little hole in the tent, right over Bunny's cot, and the rain was coming in there. "Swish!" went the lightning. "Bang!" went the thunder. "Whoo-ee!" blew the wind. It was certainly a bad storm at Camp Rest-a-While. "Daddy! Daddy!" cried Sue, from behind the curtain, in the part of the tent where she slept with her mother. "Daddy, do you think we'll blow away?"
Finally Sue said: "Well, we can't get any milk at the farmhouse. I don't know any other place around here where we can go, so the only thing to do is to go back to Camp Rest-a-While." "But there's no milk there," said Bunny. "I know there isn't. But we can tell daddy and mother, and ask them what to do. They wouldn't want us to go off somewhere else without telling them.
Brown might easily have gone out and rescued him in another boat. But I think it was very clever of Bunny and Sue, and Splash, too, to get Tom back to shore as they did; don't you? There were many happy, joyful days at Camp Rest-a-While. The children went on little picnics in the woods and often they were taken out in the boat by Bunker Blue.
Bunker Blue, a boy, had also come to Camp Rest-a-While with the Brown family, but after having many adventures with them, he had gone back to Bellemere, where Mr. Brown had a fish and a boat business. With him went Tom Vine, a boy whom the Browns had met after coming to camp. Bunny Brown and his sister Sue liked it in the big woods that stretched out all about their camp.
Brown, as he had seen them about the place ever since he and his family had been living at Camp Rest-a-While. "What I want to see is a strange footprint," said the children's father. "An Indian's footprint is stranger than ours," said Sue. "Of course, if they wear moccasins," agreed Bunny. "No, if they wear shoes," said Sue. "Our teacher told us about it."
"He may have run away from you because you didn't treat him well, but he would not run away from us. He liked it at Camp Rest-a-While." "That's all you know about boys!" laughed the farmer. "I treated him as well as he needed to be treated. Boys are all lazy. They'd rather play than work. And you'll find out that Tom Vine has run away from you. He didn't want to work."
You must be hungry!" "I am, lady. I haven't had anything since morning. I started to go back to the city, but it's farther than I thought, and I lost my way. When I struck this camp, I saw the sign 'Rest-a-While, so I sat down to rest. Then I saw the ice box, and I was hungry, and and I well, I just helped myself."
"I wish Tom Vine was here to help eat them," said Sue. "So do I," agreed Bunny. But Tom Vine was not there. Where was he? No one at Camp Rest-a-While could tell. Bunny Brown did not sleep well that night. Perhaps he had eaten too many marshmallow candies. At any rate, he awoke soon after he went to bed.
That's what we'll call it then, though I didn't know I was naming a camp. Well, children Uncle Tad Bunker and all of us Welcome to Camp Rest-a-While!" "Hurrah!" cried Bunny and Sue, clapping their hands. And so the camp was named. Mrs. Brown set out a little lunch, and they gathered about one of the boxes, in which the bed clothes were packed, to eat.
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