“I—­I don’t know, Bunny,” answered Sue.  “I ’members about being in the tent.  And Splash was there, too.  But I’m in my bed now.”

“So’m I, Sue.  I—­I wonder how we got here?”

Bunny looked all around his room again, as if trying to solve the puzzle.  But he could not guess what had happened.  He remembered how he and Sue had gotten up in the middle of the night, and how they had crept inside the tent.  Then Splash had come; and how funny it was when Sue thought their dog was a bear.  Then they had all gone to sleep in the tent, and now——­

Well, Bunny was certainly in his bed, and so was Sue in hers.

“How—­how did it happen?” asked Bunny.

He heard a laugh out in the hall.  Running to the door he saw his father and mother standing there.  Then Bunny understood.

“Oh, you carried us in from the tent when we were asleep; didn’t you, Daddy?” asked Bunny, pointing a finger at his father.

“Yes, that’s what I did.”

“Oh, Bunny, what made you and Sue do a thing like that?” asked Mother Brown.  “I was so frightened when I came in to cover you and Sue up, and couldn’t find my little ones.  What made you do it?”

“Why—­why,” said Bunny slowly, “we wanted to get some practice at camping out, Sue and I did—­just like they practice piano lessons.  So we went to sleep in the tent.”

“Well, don’t do it again until we really go camping,” said Daddy Brown.  “When we are in the woods, at Lake Wanda, you can sleep in the tent as much as you like, for then we’ll have cot beds and everything right.  Anyhow, I’m going to take down the tent to-day and get it ready to pack up for camp.”

“When are we going?” asked Bunny.

“Oh, in about a week, I guess,” answered his father.

“Then I’m going to pack up,” declared the little boy.  “I’ve got lots of things I want to take to camp.”

“And so have I,” called Sue, who had run out of her own room.  “I’m going to take two of my best dolls, and all their clothes.”

“You can take some of your toys and play-things but not too many,” said Mrs. Brown.  “You must remember that you’ll be out in the woods a good part of the time, having fun among the trees, or perhaps on the lake.  So you won’t want too many home-toys.”

“Are we going to have a boat on the lake?” asked Bunny eagerly.

“Yes, but you’re not to go out in it alone.  Bunker Blue is coming with us, and he will look after you on the water, and Uncle Tad will look after you in the woods—­that is when either daddy or myself is not with you children.  Now you’d better get dressed for breakfast, and don’t go out in the middle of the night any more and sleep in a tent.”

“We won’t,” promised Bunny Brown and his sister Sue.

That week began the work of getting ready to go to camp.  One of the first things Daddy Brown did was to get two other tents.  One of these was to be the dining-room tent, where the table would be set for eating when in camp.  Another tent, smaller than either of the two, would do to cook in.