“But no cow came into the tent last night, Mother,” said Bunny.  “Anyhow a cow wouldn’t like to eat a train of cars.”

“A cow eat a train of cars!” cried Daddy Brown, coming into the tent just in time to hear what Bunny said.  “Say, is that a riddle?”

“No.  But it’s a riddle to guess who or what took Bunny’s train of cars,” said Mrs. Brown.  “He says he left them here, in front of the stove to dry out the water as you told him to, but they are gone now.”

“That’s queer,” said Mr. Brown, looking about.  “Is Bunny’s train the only thing that is missing?”

“It seems to be, as far as we can tell by a hasty look around.  But we’ll have to see,” said Mother Brown.

Uncle Tad, Mr. Brown and Bunny and Sue looked carefully about the tent while Mrs. Brown got breakfast.  They saw several footprints, for the children, as well as the grown folks, had been about the tents all day, and Eagle Feather, the Indian, had also been there.

“Who knew that you had a train of cars?” asked Mr. Brown of his son when a long search had failed to find the toy.

“Well, I told the boy who brings the milk, the butter and egg man, and I guess that’s all,” said Bunny.

“You told Eagle Feather,” put in Sue.

“Yes, but he wouldn’t take them,” said Bunny.  “He thinks they are big medicine for finding his lost cow.  He wouldn’t take them.”

“I’m not so sure of that,” said Uncle Tad.  “Indians like bright and pretty things and that electrical train must have been a great wonder to them; especially to Eagle Feather, who is a smart Indian.”

“Then why didn’t he take my Teddy bear, Sallie Malinda?” asked Sue.  “My bear, with the blinking eyes, helped find the lost cow as well as Bunny’s train did.”

“Of course it did,” agreed Mother Brown.  “I don’t believe Eagle Feather had a thing to do with it.  If the train was stolen by tramps we’d better get another dog, Daddy Brown, to keep them away.”

“Oh, don’t get a dog!” cried Bunny and Sue together.  “Splash is the best dog that ever was!”

“Yes.  But he is so friendly with everybody that he would just as soon a tramp came up to the tent as some of the farm peddlers,” said Mrs. Brown.  “He hardly ever barks unless he is playing with you children, and he is so good-natured.”

“Oh, we never could give up Splash,” said Bunny, and Sue nodded her head to show that she felt the same way about it.

“Maybe you can get another dog, who will bark, Mother.  Then we could hitch Splash and him up together and have a team,” went on Bunny.

“Splash would never pull the way the other dog wanted to go,” said Uncle Tad.  “I guess, before we think of more dogs we’ll just go over to the Indian village and find out what they know about the missing toy train.”

“Yes, that would be a good plan,” said Mr. Brown.  “Suppose we go together, Uncle Tad.”

So, after breakfast, when another search had been made about the camp to make sure the train was not hidden behind something, the two men started off.  Bunny kept on searching about the tents for his missing toy, and Sue played with her Teddy Bear, tying her on the back of Splash, the dog, to make believe Sallie Malinda was having a pony ride.