kindly. "Did you both see this? Or did you make it up or dream it?"

"We didn't dream," said Sue, "'cause we hadn't gone to sleep yet."

"And we didn't make it up, for we weren't playing make-believe," added
Bunny.

"Then you must have seen something," said their father; for when Bunny
and his sister spoke in this serious way their parents could tell they
were in earnest.

"What could it be?" asked Mrs. Brown, with a wondering look at her
husband.

"I'll run over and see," he replied. "You children hop back into bed.
You'll catch cold."

"Oh, Daddy! It's Summer yet, and we're even going to sleep out in the
tent when we're on the auto tour," said Bunny. "Let us wait up and see
if Fred really has come home. I hope he has!"

"I hope so, too," said Mother Brown. "Let them lie awake in bed, Daddy,
until you come back from the Ward home."

"All right, I will," Mr. Brown agreed, and as he started across the
moonlighted lawn Bunny and Sue, with many whisperings, noddings and
giggles went back upstairs to their room.

But they did not go to bed. This was one of the times when they did not
do as they were told. But it was only once in a while they did anything