"Time to go to Slumberland now," called Mrs. Brown, when it was nearly
nine o'clock. "Go to bed early and you'll get up so much the earlier."
So off to their little cots, behind the hanging curtains, went Bunny and
Sue, and soon after saying their prayers they were asleep, one to dream
he was a conductor on a big electric train, while the other dreamed of
carrying a big, crying Teddy bear upside down through the woods with a
milk pail hanging to its nose.
Just what time it was Bunny and Sue did not know, but they were both
suddenly awakened by feeling the tent, on the side nearest to which they
slept, being pushed in. The canvas walls bulged as though some one were
trying to get through them.
"Oh, Daddy!" cried Sue, as she saw the tent move in the light of a
lantern that burned dimly beyond the curtains behind which she and Bunny
slept. "Oh, Daddy, something is after us."
"Yes, and it's an elephant!" cried Bunny, as he, too, saw the tent sway.
"It's an elephant got loose from the circus, and he's after us!"
With that he bounded out of bed, and, waiting only long enough to clasp
each other by the hand, the two children burst into that part of the
tent where Mr.
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