“Wango isn’t very good to-day,” said Mr. Winkler.  “I must get a stronger chain for him, I think.  Now I’ll take him home, and, Mrs. Redden, when you find out how much candy he spoiled, and how many jars he broke, I will come and pay you.”

“All right,” answered Mrs. Redden.  Then the sailor took his monkey home, and the store-lady, after she had given Bunny and Sue the lollypops they came for, began to clean up her place.  Certainly Wango had upset it very much.

“He must have come in the store by the back way, when I was out hanging up the clothes,” said the candy-shop lady.  “He hid under the counter until he saw me open the showcase for you, Bunny.  Then he put in his paw, and grabbed the lollypops.”

“Yes, that’s what he did—­I saw him,” said Sue, who was now taking the paper off her candy.  But she did not put two in her mouth, at once, as the monkey had done.  Of course Sue wouldn’t do anything like that.

Bunny and Sue made all the folks at home laugh, as they told of Wango’s funny tricks.

“Well, it was quite an adventure,” said Aunt Lu, “wasn’t it?”

“What’s an ad—­adventure?” Sue wanted to know.

“It’s something that happens,” her aunt explained.

“Then Wango must be an adventure,” said Bunny, “for lots happened to him.”

It was two days after the monkey had gotten in the candy-store that Harry Bentley, Charlie Star, Sadie West and Helen Newton came over to play with Bunny and his sister Sue.

“What shall we play?” asked Bunny.

“Hide-and-go-to-seek,” said Sadie.

The others liked this game, so they began to play it.  Helen covered her eyes with her arms, so she could not see where the others hid, and began counting.

“When I count up to fifty, I’m coming to find you,” she said, “and whoever I find first will have to blind next time, and hunt for the rest of us.”

Off they all ran to hide.  Sue stooped down to hide behind a lilac bush, near “home,” which was the side porch.  Whoever reached “home” before Helen did, after she had started on her search, would be “in free.”

“Ready or not, I’m coming!” called Helen, after she had counted fifty, and she began to look for the hiding ones.

“She’ll not find me,” said Bunny Brown to himself.  “I’m going to hide in a funny place.  She’ll never find me!”

And where do you think he hid?  It was in a queer place—­down in an empty rain-water barrel, that stood back of the house.  Bunny climbed up into it by standing on a box, and, once inside, he crouched down on the bottom, where anyone would have had to come very close, and look over the edge, to see him.  And there Bunny hid.

CHAPTER XX

SPLASH RUNS AWAY

“Where is Bunny?”

“Bunny!  Bunny Brown!”

“Come on in!  The game is over and Charlie Star is it.  He’s going to blind next time, you won’t have to!”