ich they had set down in the road so they could chase the squirrel. Then Bunny, made bold by thinking of what might happen if he and his

he little boy. "Leave our milk alone!" and

ack!" cried Sue. "Don'

brother asked i

e might b

doesn't look as savage as our Splash, and he nev

ith a sort of "wuff!" as if to say, "Well, I've taken all the milk, what are you going to do about it?" aw

e! I'm not afraid of that dog!" th

er. "You are awful brave, Bunny-just as brave as when you

, I keep tellin' yo

" agreed Sue. "But is th

d Bunny turned the pa

gh, "then I guess you weren't brave in

," declared her brother. "If I'd seen him I'd have

all she could think of, now that the pail was

e agreed. "But we can easy

can't,"

r, and if you're afraid of the dog you

't ever leave me alone, to go anywhere when we were on the road or in the big woods. I've got

away. I don't believe he'll come back anyhow. Don't you know how 'fraid dogs are to come back to you when they've done something bad. That time Splash ate the meat Bu

id of the dog, Bunn

are you a

farm lady said. She said this was the last quart of

eed Bunny. "Then what

know,"

something," sai

ny more milk at the camp, and t

Bunny. "I guess we didn't ought to have tooken that fo

aybe we oughtn't.

ing to do or play. Sue was a good thinker. She usually thought first and did things afterward, while Bunny was just the other way. He did something f

think something?" h

king up and d

she said. "Please do

he empty milk pail, and tipping it upside down, as

know any other place around here where we can go, so th

no milk there

do. They wouldn't want us to go off somewhere else without telling them. And

d, "and he does get more milk, we won't set the pail down in

be too dark to see to chase squirrels," said

p, and as they did so they heard a crackling in the b

and she snuggled up close against her brother, thoug

" said Bunny. "Wait until

you do they might jump at you and bite you. Just don't notice him or spe

said Bunny, looking up toward the place

ed in rather ragged clothes. He looked like what the children called a tramp, though since they had arrived at the camp they had come to know that not

brim of his black hat, and though he did not have such a nice face as did

es?" asked the old man, and

ve just been,

our pail that way," went on the old man, for Bunny was

there was any in t

isn't," a

we don't know where to get

ed, for he and Sue always tried to spe

asin' a squirrel,

clared positively. "He put his nose right in the pail and licked up

t any more milk," Sue explained. "An

ke the pudding,"

r!" wai

aid the ragged man. "But if you'll

ering that his mother had told him never to go anyw

k," said the ragged man. "I keep a cow, and I have more milk than I can use or