"It's a cow. Dix is leading home a cow on the end of a rope!" exclaimed
Sue.




CHAPTER IX

TWO DISAPPEARANCES


For a moment the two children looked out of the automobile windows at
the strange sight. Then, unable longer to think of going to bed when
there was likely to be some excitement, they both came out from behind
the curtains that screened off their cots, and cried together:

"Dix has got a cow!"

"Dix has got a _what_?" asked Mrs. Brown, thinking she had not
understood.

"Dix has got a _cow_!" went on Bunny. "He's leading her by a rope. I
guess he thinks it's our cow."

"Well, what will those dogs do next?" asked Mr. Brown, who was reading a
newspaper he had purchased from a passing boy, who rode his route on a
bicycle.

"It's true enough--about the cow," said Uncle Tad, who was outside the