kind voice. "He didn't need to run away just because he wanted something to eat. I would be glad to give him all he wanted. I wouldn't see anyone go hungry."
"He looked like a tramp," said Bunker.
"But he was only a boy," remarked Uncle Tad.
"I wish he hadn't run away," said Mother Brown. "I don't believe he got half enough to eat. He took only a little." She could tell that by looking in the ice box.
By this time Splash, the big dog, who had not come up with the others, now rushed into camp. He sniffed around, and then, all of a sudden, he made a dash for a clump of bushes, and, standing in front of it began barking loudly.
"Oh, maybe the bear's come back and is hiding in there!" cried Bunny.
"More likely it's that ragged boy," said Uncle Tad. "That's where he made a rush for as soon as we came up."
Splash seemed about to go into the bushes himself, and drive, or drag, out whatever was hiding there.
