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CHAPTER XXIII
TRYING TO HELP TOM
"You were locked in a trunk and almost smothered!" exclaimed Mrs. Brown,
looking first at Sue and then at Mr. Bixby, as though she thought he
might have had some hand in the matter.
"Yes, it was over in Mrs. Preston's attic. But it was my own fault, I
never should have got in the trunk, for it closed with a spring lock and
they had to get a carpenter to saw me out."
"Oh! And spoil Mrs. Preston's trunk?"
"'Tisn't spoiled," said Bunny. "She's going to let us use it for a dog
kennel."
"And it will make such a nice one for Splash," said Sue. "You see, we
can put hinges on the little square place the carpenter cut out to make
a hole for me to get through, and we can make something fast to it that
Splash can get hold of with his teeth, like a knob, so he can pull the
door shut when it rains. It will be awful nice. I don't mind having been
shut up a bit when I think of Splash."
"But how did it all happen?" asked Mrs. Brown, while her husband and Mr.
Bixby were talking together.
The children told of Sue's adventure and of Charlie and Rose, and of the
big porch and of the lunch.
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