"
"Wouldn't it bite?" the little girl asked.
"Well, maybe a little bit at first, but not after it got tame," said
Teddy. "Come on!"
They walked a little way farther, and then Jan suddenly cried:
"Oh, I see a hole!"
She pointed to one beneath the roots of a big tree.
"That's a fox den, I guess!" exclaimed Teddy. "We'll watch and see
what comes out."
The children hid in the bushes where they could look at the hole in
the ground. For some time they waited, and then they began to get
tired. The Curlytops were not used to keeping still.
"I'm going to sneeze!" said Trouble suddenly, and sneeze he did. And
just then a little brown animal bounced out from under a bush and ran
into the hole.
"Oh, it's a bunny rabbit!" cried Janet. "He lives in that hole! Come
on, Ted, let's walk. We've found out what it was. It isn't a fox, it's
a bunny! Let's go and find something else on the island. Maybe we can
find a big cave."
"And maybe well find out what that blue light was," cried Ted eagerly.
"I guess I don't want to look for that," remarked Jan slowly.
"Why not?"
"'Cause don't you 'member what Hal said about there bein' ghosts on
this island?" and Janet looked over her shoulder, though it was broad
daylight.
"Pooh!" laughed her brother. "I thought you didn't believe in ghosts."
"I don't--but--"
"I'm not afraid!" declared Teddy.
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