Brown,
noticing that their eyes were drooping, said:
"It's time for you tots to go to bed. Hadn't you better sleep in the
automobile?"
"No, we're going to our tent," said Bunny, seriously.
"Yes, we want to camp out," added Sue, sleepy as she was.
Knowing that it was perfectly safe, for the children had often camped
out before, Mr. and Mrs. Brown undressed the sleepy tots, and carried
them to their cots in the tent. Dix and Splash were given beds of hay on
the ground near the tent and told to stay on guard, which they would be
sure to do.
"Do you think they'll sleep out all night?" asked Mr. Brown of his wife,
as they made ready for bed in the automobile.
"I hardly think so," she said. "I'll leave the electric light, the one
outside the 'Ark' near the back steps, burning, so if they want to crawl
in here during the night they can."
"Good idea," said Mr. Brown.
Soon all was quiet around the big automobile and in the little white
tent over amid the trees. Bunny and Sue had fallen asleep almost as soon
as their heads touched the pillows.
But they did not sleep very long. Or so, at least, it seemed to them.
Sue awakened with a start. At first she could not remember where she
was, though there was a bright moon shining outside and it made the tent
light inside.
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