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"We can picnic alongside the road, Sue, and watch Daddy and Uncle Tad get the car out." "Yes," said Bunny's sister. "And maybe I'll make a pie for you and Sallie Malinda." "No, I guess I wouldn't try a pie to-day," said Mrs. Brown with a smile. "We won't be able to use any stove except the small oil one, out on the ground, and that will cook only a few things.
"I'll bring her to bed with me and tell her a story," said the little girl. Eagerly she ran out to the kitchen. She looked in the chair where the Teddy bear had been left. Then Sue's eyes filled with tears as she cried: "Where has Sallie gone? Oh, where has Sallie Malinda gone? Some one has tooken my Teddy bear!" Bunny Brown heard his sister's cry, and up from his cot he jumped.
"Well, somebody took my Teddy bear, which is a her, not a him, and is named Sallie Malinda, from our tent," went on the little girl; "and, of course, as a bear likes a wood, maybe they brought her here." "And my train of cars is gone, too," said Bunny, as he told of that having been taken from the tent. "Why, that is surprising!" cried the ragged man. "Both your nice toys taken!
So, having made a nice bed of rags for her Teddy bear, Sue put Sallie Malinda to sleep near the rear door of the auto and got out one of her books to look at the pictures. Bunny was building some sort of house with some new blocks his father had bought for him, but he was not having very good luck, for the motion of the auto made the house topple over almost as soon as Bunny had it built.
"And Bunny thought Sallie Malinda had walked off by herself," said Sue, "but daddy said she couldn't, for there is nothing in her to wind up. So that couldn't happen." "Then who took her?" asked the ragged man.
Brown. "Teddy bears are the only ones I want to see." "Well, maybe no real bears came for Sallie Malinda," said Sue, after a while. "I guess it was an Indian or some man who wanted my toy for his little girl. But I hope I get her back Sallie Malinda, I mean."
"But how are we going to get my darling Sallie Malinda back?" asked Sue, and there were tears in her eyes. "Daddy will find some way. Won't you, Daddy?" asked Bunny, for he did not like to see his little sister sad. "Well, the only thing I can see to do is to turn the automobile around and go back to look for Sue's Teddy bear," said Mr. Brown.
"Though some mother bear might have come in and taken her to her den, thinking she was her baby," said Sue. "My Sallie Malinda looked just like a real bear when her eyes were lighted up." "But there were no bear tracks around the tents," said Bunny; "and there would have been if there had been any bears here to carry off your Teddy. There are no other bears here." "I'm glad of that," said Mrs.
To awe by my authority, and soothe by my condescension, was the design; but even in this limited effort I am conscious of a lamentable failure. Seated upon the floor, within an airy castle of dry-goods, whose battlements of flannel and linen cambric frowningly encircled her, was Malinda Jane. Before it, like an investing army, with colors flying, and a face radiant with defiant triumph, was Mrs.
"He wants us to stop, thinking, maybe, that we were running too fast. But I know we weren't." "Will he 'rest us?" asked Sue. "If he does I'm going to hide Sallie Malinda. I'm not going to have her locked up!" "Nothing will happen," said Mr. Brown with a laugh. "I have run an automobile long enough to know what to do." Mr.
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