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CHAPTER IX
TOM HEARS A NOISE
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, with their father, mother, Uncle Tad and Bunker Blue, hurried on toward the tent under which was set the dining table. They could see where the ragged boy had made a meal for himself, taking the bread and meat from the ice box. For a refrigerator had been brought to camp, and the iceman came on a boat, once a day, to leave ice.
"Who is he?" asked Bunny Brown, looking toward the bushes behind which the strange boy had run.
"What did he want?" Sue asked.
"I can answer you. Sue, but I can't answer Bunny," said Mr. Brown. "That boy was hungry, and wanted something to eat, but who he is I don't know."
"Poor little chap," said Mrs. Brown in a
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