When the meal was over Mrs. Brown gathered up a big plateful of scraps from the table, and gave it to Bunny to feed Dix and Splash.

“Here Dix!” called Bunny, inviting the “company” dog first, which was proper, I suppose.  “Here, Dix and Splash!”

The two dogs heard and must have known that they were being called to dinner, for they came with a rush, each one trying to see which would be the first to reach Bunny with the plateful of good food.

“You’d better put the dish on the ground and get away,” said Mr. Brown with a laugh.  “Otherwise they’ll be so glad to see you, Bunny, that they’ll knock you down and roll over you.”

“I guess they will,” said the little boy.  So he put the plate of meat, bread and potato scraps on the ground near the big automobile and then stepped back out of the way.

Dix and Splash did not take long to finish the food on the plate, and then they looked up at Bunny and wagged their tails, as if asking for more.

“No more!” called Mrs. Brown to them, for she understood the feeding of dogs.  “That will do you until supper.”

Seeing they were going to get no more, Dix and Splash ran off together again to have more fun rolling about in the grass.

“Where do you think we shall stop for the night?” asked Mrs. Brown of her husband as they set off once more.

“Just outside the town of Freeburg,” he answered.  “We’ll sleep in the auto, of course, for if we are making a tour this way it’s the proper thing to do.  But we’ll be near enough a town for supplies or anything we may need.”

“Goodness!  We don’t need anything this soon, nor have we a place to put another thing away,” protested Mrs. Brown.

Her husband laughed.  “However, it’s well to be near a town overnight,” he said.

So the big automobile chugged on.  Mrs. Brown and Uncle Tad washed the dishes and put them away, and then they sat looking out at the side windows and enjoying the trip.  Now and then Mr. Brown would talk in through the open window against which the steering wheel seat was built.  Bunny and his sister sometimes rode inside, and again outside with Daddy Brown.

“This is lots of fun, I think,” said Bunny, as he sat beside his father, and the auto went rather fast down a hill.

“It’s just great!  My Sallie Malinda Teddy bear likes it, too,” put in Sue, who was also on the front seat.  Both of them together took up no more room than one grown person, and the front seat was built large enough for two.

Dix and Splash raced on together, sometimes playing a game like wrestling, trying to see which could throw the other, and again rushing along as fast as they could go, sometimes behind, and sometimes in front of the automobile.

At the foot of the hill, down which the automobile had gone rather fast, a man stepped out from a fence beside the road and held up his hand.

“What does that mean?” asked Sue.