GRANDPA'S HORSES
"Well, well! You children do the queerest things!" cried Grandpa Brown,
when Mr. and Mrs. Kendall drove up to the farmhouse with Bunny Brown and
his sister Sue in the wagon, Splash standing up in the back, and barking
as though he had done it all. "Yes, you certainly do queer things! The
idea of running off to a circus!"
"We--we didn't run--we walked," corrected Sue.
"And we saw the elephants, but I didn't water any," said Bunny.
"Oh, I was _so_ worried about you!" cried Mrs. Brown, as she put her
arms around Bunny and Sue. "Why did you do it?"
"We--we wanted to see the circus," said Bunny.
"And oh! we saw grandpa's horses!" cried Sue. "Two Gypsy mans had
them!"
Every one looked surprised on hearing this.
"What's that? What's that?" cried Grandpa Brown. "You saw my two horses
that the Gypsies borrowed, and didn't bring back?"
"Yes, we saw them," said Bunny. "Anyhow they _looked_ like your horses,
'cause they weren't circus horses."
"What about this, Mr. Kendall?" asked Grandpa Brown of the kind farmer
who had brought Bunny and Sue home.
"I don't know anything about it," was the answer. "My wife and I went to
the circus, and when we were standing around, waiting for the show to
begin, we saw these tots there. They were all alone, so we knew
something must be wrong. They told us they'd run away, and we brought
them back. But I didn't see your horses, though I did see two Gypsy men
hanging around one of the tents."
Grandpa Brown thought for a few seconds. Then he said:
"Well, it might be that the Gypsies came back with my team, and are
trying to sell them to the circus. I guess I'd better go over and see
about it."
"You can ride back with us," said Mr. Kendall. "My wife and I are going
right back to the circus."
"Oh, can't we go?" cried Bunny.
"Please!" begged Sue.
"Not this time, my dears," said Mother Brown. "But if all goes well, you
shall go to-morrow, when daddy comes back. The circus will be here for
two days."
Bunny and Sue were glad to hear this. Grandpa Brown rode off with Mr.
and Mrs. Kendall; and Bunny and Sue were given a good dinner and put to
sleep that afternoon, for they were tired, sleepy and hungry.
It was late in the afternoon when Bunny and Sue awoke. They went out on
the porch, and the first thing they saw was Grandpa Brown coming down
the road, riding on one horse and leading another which trotted by the
side of the first.
"Oh, look!" cried Bunny. "Grandpa did get his horses back from the
Gypsies!"
"That's just what I did, little man!" cried Grandpa Brown, as he rode up
the drive. "Those were my horses you saw the Gypsy men have, though of
course you only guessed it."
"Are they really yours?" asked Mother Brown.
"Yes, the same ones the Gypsies took. If it had not been for Bunny and
Sue I might never have gotten them back."
"I thought we'd find them!" cried Bunny. "We found Aunt Lu's diamond
ring, and now we have found grandpa's horses."
"Good luck!" cried Sue, clapping her hands.
And the horses did really belong to Grandpa Brown. He told how he got
them back.
"The Gypsy man, who borrowed my team, just before you folks came to the
farm," grandpa said to Bunny, Sue and Mother Brown, "that Gypsy man
really meant to bring my horses back, when he got through with them, but
he was taken ill. Then some of the bad Gypsies in the tribe ran away
with the team--they took them far off and kept them.
"Where they went I don't know, but to-day they came back, and, seeing
the circus, the Gypsies thought they could sell my horses, to do
tricks, maybe, though I never trained them to do any more than pull a
plow or wagon.
"Anyhow, when I got to the circus I found one of the circus men was just
going to buy my horses from the Gypsies. I told him the team was mine,
and that the Gypsies had no right to sell it to him. The Gypsies ran
away when they saw me, and the circus man gave me my horses. So I have
them back. But if Bunny and Sue had not gone to the circus I never would
have known about my horses."
"And did you see the elephants?" asked Sue.
"No, I didn't have time to look at them," said her grandfather with a
laugh. "I was too glad to get my horses back."
"I--I wish we could go to the circus," begged Bunny.
"So you shall--to-morrow!" cried Grandpa Brown. "My goodness you
certainly shall go! You must have a reward for finding my horses for me,
so I'll take you and Sue and everybody to the circus to-morrow. We'll
all go and have a good time!"
"Will you take Bunker Blue?" asked Bunny.
"Yes, Bunker shall go."
"And can I get a blue balloon?" Sue wanted to know.
"Yes, or a red or green or yellow one."
"And me, too?" asked Bunny.
"Of course."
"And can we have peanuts, and more pink lemonade, 'cause it was awful
good, and can we feed the elephant, and--and----"
Sue had to stop, for she was all out of breath.
"You can have the best time ever!" cried Grandpa Brown, giving her a hug
and a kiss.
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" cried Sue, and that was all she could say, she felt so
happy. Bunny was happy too, and, a little later, he and Sue went out to
the barn to see grandpa's team of horses the Gypsies had taken, but
which were now safe in their stalls.
Of course Papa Brown was surprised when he came to the farm the next
day, and heard that Bunny and Sue had found grandpa's horses for him.
"My, such children!" he cried. But I think he was proud of them just the
same.
"Oh, Bunker! We're going to the circus!" cried Sue. "And you're going
too!"
"And so am I!" shouted Bunny. "And maybe we'll get up a circus of our
own, Sue!"
"Oh, will we?"
"Maybe!"
And what sort of show the two children gave you may read about in the
next book of this series, which will be called: "Bunny Brown and His
Sister Sue Playing Circus."
In a big farm wagon, the children, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Grandpa and
Grandma Brown, and Bunker Blue went to the big circus on the baseball
grounds. Bunny and Sue saw the elephants, the camels, the lions, and the
tigers. And the children did not have to carry water to get in to see
the show, for Grandpa Brown bought tickets for them.
Bunny and Sue sat looking at the men and women turn somersaults in the
air, and fall down safely into the big nets. They saw the races, when
monkeys rode on the backs of ponies and dogs. They saw the cages of wild
animals, and they fed the elephants peanuts by the bagfull.
"Oh, Bunny! Bunny!" cried Sue when they came out, each carrying a toy
balloon. "Wasn't the circus wonderful!"
"Fine!" cried Bunny Brown. "But you just wait until we get up our
circus! That will be better yet!" And we will all wait and see what
happened.
THE END
_This Isn't All!_
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Table of Contents, "189" changed to "187."
Page 43, "aster" changed to "faster". (and faster.)
Page 190, "if" changed to "of". (of the little)
Page 212, "th" change to "the". (believe any of the)
"bu" changed to "but". (myself, but I)
Page 230, "man" changed to "men". (The two men)