Splash might have knocked down all the “eggs” and done other damage in the store had not Bunny placed Mrs. Snyder’s sugar in the basket and sent his pet to deliver the make-believe sweet stuff.

And Splash delivered it very carefully, too.  Sadie had gone back to her home at “756 Oatbin Avenue” to wait for her sugar, and when it came she took it from the basket on Splash’s neck.  Then the dog went back to the barn store to run on more delivery errands.

This was a sample of the way Bunny, Sue, and their friends played that Saturday morning.  Now and then they would change about, some who had been clerks becoming customers and the customers clerks.

Of course accidents happened.  Splash wagged his tail so hard that he knocked over a box of prunes, scattering them on the barn floor.  Even if the prunes were only little black stones it wasn’t just the thing for Splash to do, and Sue scolded him for it.  But Splash didn’t seem to mind.

Another time, when the dog had been sent to deliver some ice-cream (which was really some white sand from the brook) to Mrs. Leland Sayre, who lived at 1056 Straw Terrace (Mrs. Sayre being Mary Watson), an accident happened.  Splash was on his way to Mrs. Sayre’s home when he heard another dog barking outside the barn.

With a bark of greeting Splash dashed out, spilling the “ice-cream” all over the barn floor.

“Oh, dear!  And I wanted it for a party!” said Mrs. Sayre.

But of course it was all in fun.

More than once the change auto ran off the plank, either on its way to the cashier or coming back, and spilled the money all over the barn floor.  But that could not be helped.

“Only it isn’t good for my auto,” said Charlie.

“We’ll put some straw down on the floor so when it falls it won’t get bent,” said Bunny, and this was done.

All morning the children played store in the barn, selling the things over and over again.  Splash got tired of being a delivery dog after a while, and Bobbie Boomer said he’d take his place.  Bobbie was more to be depended on than Splash, who, try as he did, would sometimes deliver things to the wrong houses.

When noon came the neighboring children were talking of going home to lunch, but Mrs. Brown gave them all a pleasant surprise, including Bunny and Sue, by asking all the boys and girls to remain and have something to eat, served in the barn.

“Oh, what fun!” cried Sadie West.

“The best ever!” declared Charlie Star.  “I’m glad I came!”

Lunch over, the playing of store went on again, until first one and then another began to tire, and it was given up.  Then they put away the planks and boxes and played tag and hide and seek until it was time for supper, when the boys and girls went home.

“We’ve had a lovely time!” they said to Bunny and Sue.

Just before supper Mrs. Brown needed something from the store.