“I surely will!” answered Mr. Brown, with a smile.

“And may I play with my e-lec-tric train while you’re away?” asked Bunny.

“Yes, but be very careful of it,” said his father.  “It is strong, but it can be broken or put out of order.  So if you play with it take it to some level place in the woods, and be careful how you set up the track.  Don’t make too big a one.”

Bunny promised that he would not, and soon after Mr. Brown had gone away in his automobile, the children, Sue taking her Teddy bear and Bunny his toy train, started into the woods to play.

“Don’t go too far,” called their mother.  “You must hear me when I call you to dinner.  These woods are very big, you know.”

The children wandered off on a woodland path until, after trying, they found they could just hear their mother’s voice.

“And here will be a fine place to play,” said Bunny, when they reached a shady level place on top of a little hill that led down to the lake that was near Camp Rest-a-While.

“It will be all right if we don’t fall down the hill,” said Sue.

“Oh, we’ll keep away back from the edge,” decided Bunny.

Then he began setting up the track for his toy train of cars, while Sue made a comfortable place for her Teddy bear to sleep, first showing the animal with the electric eyes all about the woods, in which were the big trees and the low bushes.

Bunny set his track around in a circle, and after connecting the strong batteries to the track he put the electric locomotive on and coupled together the cars.  Then, when he turned the switch, the engine and train ran along the rails very swiftly.

But Bunny soon grew tired of making the train go around in a circle.  He wanted it to run along on a straight track, as the real trains do, and, having plenty of straight lengths of track in his box, he soon set up more rails that stretched off in a straight line.

“Oh, you’re gettin’ awful near the edge of the hill that goes down to the lake,” warned Sue, as she made believe to feed her Teddy bear some huckleberries.

“But I’m putting a curve at the end of the track so the engine and cars will turn back toward me,” said Bunny.  “Than I’ll shut off the power before they can run off on the ground.”

Bunny started his train the new way.  At first the engine and the cars rolled slowly over the rails, for the ground was a little uphill.  Then they came to a part that was downhill.

“Now see ’em go!” cried Bunny in delight.

“They’re going awful fast!” cried Sue.  “You’d better look out!”

“This is an express train,” explained Bunny.  “Express trains are very fast.”

Indeed the toy locomotive did seem to be going very fast.  It rocked and swayed on the tin rails, and it was soon near the end of the line where there was a curve.

And there is where the accident happened.  The curve was so sharp, and the electric engine was going so fast, that, instead of turning around, it kept on straight, jumped over the rails and began to run down hill on the dirt and stone path that led to the lake.