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"But we could take the two dogs, Dix and Splash, with us, and they could bite the lion if he chased us," said Bunny. His mother shook her head, and Bunny knew there was no use teasing any more. "I wouldn't go after any lion!" declared Sue. "And I want to find a good place to hide Sallie Malinda." "What for?" asked Bunny. "So the lion can't find her," said the little girl.
I don't know where they are now, but the engine is all right and in running order." He quickly loosened the wires, and the toy locomotive ran around the table on part of the stolen track. "But my poor dear Sallie Malinda is dead!" cried Sue. "No, I can sew her together again, if the batteries are all right," said Mrs. Brown.
The look of blank despair on the face of Malinda Jane, and the tears of rage and mortification that suffused the aristocratic nose of her ma, I frankly confess, went to the bottom of my heart. It was many months before I ceased to regret this rude banishment of their hopes; but, looking upon it from my present stand-point, I am compelled to admit my dear dead ma was right.
"Does Sallie Malinda give a good light, Daddy?" asked Sue, as her father got ready to open the door again. "Yes, little girl. It will be all right, and the wind can't blow out Sallie's eyes, no matter how hard it puffs." With the Teddy bear as a lantern Mr. Brown again went out. This time the wind did not matter, though it seemed to be blowing harder than ever. Uncle Tad followed Mr.
"Her name is Sallie Malinda," said Sue, with some indignation. "Well, take a look around for Sallie Malinda Teddy Bear Brown while I'm getting dressed," said her father. The children soon slipped into their clothes, and then began to look around the tent, inside and out. Sue thought perhaps she had left her Teddy bear with its flashing electrical eyes in a chair near the kitchen-tent table.
Her eyes will give you almost as much light as Bunny's flashlight. Maybe more, 'cause she has two eyes. She won't mind the rain, for I can put on her water-proof cloak." "Hum! That isn't such a bad idea," said Mr. Brown. "We'll try it. Bring out your Sallie Malinda Teddy bear, Sue. Her eyes will certainly need to shine brightly to-night, for it's very dark. It's a good thing you have her along."
So much language do their depths contain, that to me, at least, any other is in a great measure a superfluity. I should be afraid to count up the consecutive hours we have spent in this silent converse, reading each other's hearts, as some pleasant poet has styled it, "through the windows of the soul." I would not have you suppose them almond-shaped or piercing. No! Malinda Jane's eyes are round.
Camp Rest-a-While was near the edge of the big woods, and in the book called "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods," which is just before this one, you may read of the adventures with Bunny's train of electric cars, and of the fun Sue had with her electrical Teddy bear, which could flash its eyes when a button was pressed in his back or rather, her back, for Sue had named her Teddy bear Sallie Malinda, insisting that it was a girl bear.
You ought to see how bright my Teddy bear's eyes shine since daddy put new batteries inside Sallie Malinda," rattled on Sue. "I can 'most see to read my Mother Goose by them in the dark." "Well, I'm going to get my things ready," said Bunny. The next few days were busy ones in the Brown home.
"I I won't keep still, Bunny Brown!" gasped Sue. "And I I don't need any first aid! I just helded my breath under water, I did, and I didn't swallow much anyhow. I was holding my breath when Uncle Tad began to raise up my legs, that's why I wiggled and couldn't speak. I'm all right now and I'm much obliged to you and Dix, Uncle Tad, and I hope my Sallie Malinda isn't in the lake."
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