“What have you in there, Bunny Brown?” she asked.

“Take a look and see,” invited Sue.

Mrs. Golden peered over the wooden partition that fenced the show window off from the remainder of the store.  And in the window she saw—­what do you think?  Well, I imagine you must have guessed by this time.

Yes, it was Splash, the big dog, and asleep on his back was Charlie Star’s little white kitten!  It made the cutest picture you can imagine, for Splash kept very still, as if he did not want to wake up the sleeping puss, and the little cat was curled up just as if on a silken cushion.

It was this that Bunny and Charlie had been planning in the barn for several days.  At first Splash would have nothing to do with the white kitten, and the kitten fluffed up her tail and made funny noises at Splash.

But finally the boys and Sue had trained the two to be friends, so that Splash would lie down and allow the kitten to go to sleep on his back.  And it was this that Bunny and Sue, together with Charlie Star, had planned to attract attention to Mrs. Golden’s poor little store.

The children had succeeded better than they had dared dream.  Outside the crowd was getting larger and larger all the while, and men were saying: 

“That’s a pretty good dog!”

The women said: 

“What a pretty picture!”

Little girls said: 

“I wish I had that pussy!”

The boys wished they owned Splash.  Many of them knew him, for they had often seen the dog with Bunny Brown.  But the kitten was new, and few knew that Charlie Star owned it.

And then happened just what Uncle Tad had told the children would take place if they could draw a crowd outside the store.  Some began to look at the special display of oatmeal in the other window, and a few came in to buy.  Some bought not only oatmeal but other things as well, happening to remember that they were needed at home.

Mrs. Golden, who felt much better after her sleep, was kept very busy waiting on customers, and Bunny and Sue helped her, as did Charlie.

[Illustration:  SPLASH AND THE KITTEN DID THEIR SHARE IN DRAWING TRADE.
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Splash and the kitten did their share, too, in drawing trade.  For soon the kitten awakened and began playing with a spool which Charlie had hung up on a string in the window.  The little white cat struck at the spool with her paws as she stood up on the back of the big dog.  Splash did not seem to mind it in the least.  In fact, he looked as if he enjoyed it, and this amused the crowd all the more.

“Well, I do declare!  You children beat anything I ever saw!” exclaimed Mrs. Golden, when she had time to look and see what was going on in the special display window.  “You’ve made my store into a regular circus!”

“But it’s good for business, isn’t it?” asked Bunny.