“Maybe Uncle Henry will give us some pennies when we tell him we had to spend our five cents to come to see him,” Bunny suggested.

“Maybe.  All right, let’s go!”

Hand in hand, never thinking that it was in the least wrong, Bunny and Sue ran for the trolley.  The conductor, though perhaps he thought it strange to see two such small children traveling alone, said nothing, but helped them up the high step.  Often the people of Wayville or Bellemere would put their children on the car, and ask the conductor to look out for them, and put them off at a certain place.  But no one was with Bunny and Sue.

“We want to go to Wayville, to our Uncle Henry’s,” explained the blue-eyed little boy.

“All right,” answered the conductor.  “I’ll let you off at Wayville, though I don’t know your Uncle Henry.”  He rang the bell twice, and off went the trolley car, carrying Bunny and Sue to new adventures.

CHAPTER XI

LOST

Bunny and Sue leaned back in the trolley car seat, and felt very happy.  They loved to ride and travel, and they did not think they were doing wrong to take a trolley ride without asking their mother or father.  If they had asked, of course, Mrs. Brown would not have let them go alone.  But that is the way matters generally went with Bunny and Sue.

Faster and faster went the trolley car.  Bunny looked at Sue and smiled, and she smiled at him.  The conductor came along the step of the car, which was an open one, to collect the fares.  Bunny and Sue each handed him a five cent piece, and he handed them each back two pennies.

“Oh, I didn’t know we got any change!” exclaimed Bunny, in surprise

“The fare to Wayville is only three cents, for such little tots as you,” the conductor said.  “Are you sure you know where you are going?” he asked.

“We’re going to our Uncle Henry’s,” replied Bunny.  “And he lives near the big, white church.”

“Well, I can let you off there all right.  Now be careful, and don’t lean over out of your seats.  You’re pretty small to be taking trolley rides alone.”

“We went alone in a boat the other day,” Bunny told the conductor, “and we got shipwrecked.”

“On an island in the river,” added Sue, so the conductor would know what her brother meant.

“Well, if you’ve been shipwrecked, I guess you are able to take a trolley ride,” laughed the motorman, for Bunny and Sue were riding in the front seat.

“Hey, conductor!” called a man in the back seat of the car, “there’s a dog chasing after us!”

“Why, so there is!” The conductor seemed much surprised as he looked back.

Bunny and Sue stood up and also looked behind them.  There, indeed, was a big shaggy dog, running after the car, his tongue hanging out of his mouth.  He seemed very tired and hot.

“Why—­why!” cried Sue, “that’s our dog—­it’s Splash, and he splashed in and pulled me out of the water when I fell in, the time Bunny and I were shipwrecked!”