Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods

not so much at them as at their two toys-the electrical train, and at the Teddy Bea

ops of water off the cars and engine. "I guess I'll have to put oil on it now to k

once, after I got to bed, and wanted a drink of water that was on a chair near my bed

icine-both of um!"

ion, and though he usually spoke fairly good English, sometimes he talked as his grandf

"heap big medicine," he did not mean exactly the k

like witch hazel and sassafras. But they also have another kind of medicine, which is like what might be called a charm; as some pretty stone, a feather, a bone or two, o

his sister Sue, "heap big medicine," he meant they would be good not only to cu

he engine house at the end of your street, or the policeman on your block. Bunny and Sue had lived in the Big Woods so long now, and had seen

e if cow no come home." "Papoose" was the word the Indians used for "baby,

d into our tent," said Sue, "for she had two c

w have two horns twist like so," and he held up two fingers a

said Bunny. "Uncle Tad tied her to

ather. "Heap big medicine little

train and the electrical Teddy bear would bring s

ollowed by Eagle Feather, came back to Camp Rest-a-While. Bunny was in worse condition

Brown as she saw the two children.

d Bunny. "Sue made her Teddy's eyes flash to s

aid Mother Brown, for well she knew th

naway train was

e Indian at first, as it was common to see them around the camp, whither the

Bunny?" asked Mrs. Brown. "Oh,

erything that happened to them as soon as they got back home. Only sometimes it took a little

Mrs. Brown. "Ho

line that it ran off the end of the rails downhill. I ran after it, but I slipped and rolled. Then the

said Mrs. Brown. "But did he stop you

ree. But I almost went in. I'd have gone in after my

wn. "I must give you some of the nice sou

dian like it heap, too

ll your wife, and the little c

m milk too, if so

she who poked her head in our te

pled horns, and the one the farmer owns has only one. S

rs. Brown. "But then I think the cow can't have wandered fa

find her," said Eagle Feather. "Indi

Brown. "You might need medicine if your cow were sick, but

edicine find her all same," r

Bunny. "He called my train of cars

rm. But you mustn't believe in that sort of nonsense,

how my toy train works? He didn't see it, and I know he

quick about it, if you are goin

ashed the eyes of her Teddy Bear so Eagle Feather could see them. He looked very closely at the toy, but when Bunny had his train on the circula

powerful. Indian do anything with that med

track and the batteries into the woods," s

Indian. "Little gal bring baby bear whose

da," promised Sue. "That's my

t be gone too long, for dinner will soon be ready. And, Eagle F

get," said

e Tad had tied the stray cow, and from where she had b

farmers for miles around spoke of his honesty and kindness. He owned several farms, as well as horses and co

r name, led the Indian to the tree to which Uncle Tad had tied the cow in the night. There was t

d Eagle Feather, point

ou tell?"

th," and the Indian pointed to several branches broken from the bushes through which

as he followed the Indian, car

rns catch in the fuzzy wool of Sallie Malinda a

gal," he said to Bunny. "Maybe her medicine better for finding cow as yours, though me think yours v

opping every now and then to look down at the ground for marks of the cow

y little while. "Soon we catch 'er

yourself a toy t

her. "Like 'em very much for boy pa

mine by that time and gi

ile," said the Indian. "Heap big me

ed they heard, off in the di

" crie

you boy and gal medicine heap good-find c

managed to do so and, a little later, they saw, in a little glade among the trees, a

as in our tent!" cried Sue

for you run away?" he asked, going up to the cow,

and appeared glad t

ome to our camp, get the soup and go to your

hankful to you. Some day make bow and arrows for boy, and moccasins for f

help you," said Bunny. "Now

ere soon back at the tents, telling Mrs. Brown how they had found the lost cow. Eagle Fea

orld," she said, as she gave Eagle Feather a big pa

arewell nod to the children the red man went off into the big wood

fish and boat business, and when Bunny's father heard what had happened when Bunny put the toy tr

nd to him and to all the Indians," said Mr. Brown. "So

shook off al

stand all night to take off the rus

toy railroad out in the kitchen tent that night,

So did Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Uncle Tad, but some one must have been around the camp with very soft feet in

s gone! Some on

t?" asked

tracks, batteries and everything!