gone!"

"Yes, it seems to be gone," said Uncle Tad, looking carefully around the
tent, after he had put a match to the wood kindlings. "And I know you
left it here because I saw it the last thing when I came in to make sure
the fire was all right before going to bed."

"Then who could have taken it?" asked Bunny.

"Well, as to that I couldn't say," answered Uncle Tad slowly. "It might
have run off by itself, I suppose?"

"It couldn't have!" declared Bunny. "Of course it runs by itself when
the batteries are connected, but they weren't this time. And the train
wasn't even on the track, though the rails were piled up near it, and so
were the batteries. Yet everything is gone!"

"What's the matter?" asked Mrs. Brown, coming into the kitchen tent to
start the breakfast.

"My train is gone!" said Bunny sadly. "And I didn't hear anybody around
camp during the night," he added, and told of finding out about his
loss.

"Do you suppose you could have got up in the night, walked in your
sleep, and hidden the train somewhere else yourself?" asked Uncle Tad.

"Well, about a year ago that might have happened," said Mother Brown.
"But Bunny is cured of his sleep-walking habits now. He hasn't gotten up
for several months, unless, as happened the other night when the cow