But after his playmates had gone
Bunny Brown began to do a little worrying.
"I know Toby will like to deliver groceries and be a pony express," said
the little boy to his sister. "But maybe mother won't let us do it."
"Oh, I guess she will," said Sue.
"I'll ask her, anyhow," decided Bunny, and he did.
Mrs. Brown thought the matter over carefully when Bunny and Sue told her
about it.
"Is Mrs. Golden really in such need of money?" asked Mrs. Brown.
"Oh, yes!" cried Bunny. "She feels so sad when Mr. Flynt comes and says
he's going to close her store. And we'll feel sad if we don't have any
place to go any more and learn how to work in it, Mother! Please let us
take Toby and be a pony express!"
"I'll talk it over with your father," said Mrs. Brown.
The children waited anxiously for what their father should say, and they
were glad when they heard him laugh after Mrs. Brown had spoken to him
of the plan.
"Why, yes," he agreed. "I don't see any harm in it. Toby doesn't get
enough exercise as it is. And Bunny and Sue can manage the little
Shetland very well.
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