It was about the middle of the night that Bunny was awakened by feeling
a queer bumping, sliding motion.
"Why," he cried, sitting up in his bunk, "we must be traveling on in the
dark! Daddy! Momsie!" he cried. "What are we moving for, when it's
dark?"
"What's that?" cried Mr. Brown suddenly awakening.
"The automobile is running away!" cried Bunny, and outside they could
hear a strange roaring sound amid the patter of the rain.
CHAPTER XI
IN THE FLOOD
For a moment all was confusion inside the big automobile. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown got up and dressed hastily. Bunny and Sue thought little of doing
that until Sue, feeling cold around her bare legs, called to her
brother:
"Wrap yourself up in a blanket, Bunny, like an Indian."
"What's going on?" yelled Uncle Tad, from his bunk.
"That's what we're trying to find out," said Mr. Brown.
"Seems to me we're afloat," added Uncle Tad. "We certainly are at sea."
"It does feel so," agreed Daddy Brown, for the automobile was bumping
along the roadway, and the motor was not running, either. Something was
either pushing or pulling it.
Just then came the howls and whines of the two dogs, Dix and Splash.
They had been left out on the front seat of the car, with big curtains
hung in front of them so no rain could splatter on them.
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