Bobbsey. "You must have had a hard time. Did
you come with this circus as soon as you ran away?"
"No'm, I had a pretty bad spell first along. When I ran away I had
only the clothes I wore, and only a little money. It was my own!" he
said, quickly, lest they think he might have taken it from Mr. Mason's
lumber office. But one look at Frank's face showed that he was honest.
"What did you do?" asked Uncle Daniel.
"Well, I walked as far as I could the first night," Frank said, going
on with his story. "Then I crawled in a barn to sleep."
"Didn't you have anything to eat?" asked Nan softly. She felt very
sorry for the boy.
"Well, I had a couple of crackers I had saved from my lunch that day,"
he explained. "Then near the barn was a cow, and I milked her. That
and the crackers was all I had for supper. But I slept good in the
hay."
"I had a good sleep in some hay!" exclaimed Freddie, as he remembered
the time they had played hide-and-go-seek in the barn.
"It makes a good bed when you're tired," said Frank.
"What did you have for breakfast?" asked Flossie. "I like an orange
and oatmeal for mine.
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