"If we only had a string on the boat, Bunny, we could pull Tom right to us. We could stand on shore and pull him in, just as we did with your little sail boat."
"That's right—we could!" cried Bunny. Then he called:
"Tom, has you got a rope on your boat? If you has throw it to me and Sue, and we'll pull you in by it."
Tom looked in the bottom of the boat.
"There's a rope here," he said, "but it isn't long enough to reach to shore."
He held it up so the children could see. Certainly it was not half long enough. It was the rope by which the boat had been tied to the tree.
While Bunny and Sue stood there, wondering what to do, there came a rustling, cracking sound in the bushes back of them. They quickly turned, and saw their dog, Splash. He had been roving about in the woods, and had now come back to camp.
"Oh, Splash!" cried Bunny. "You can do it, I know you can!"
"What can he do?" asked Sue.
