He stood under the uncertain rays of the lamp to examine the partinggift Morgan had given him. Tucked under half a dozen chocolate waferswas a five dollar bill folded into the tiniest possible wad. Thechoky feeling assailed Bob again.

"She certainly is some teeny child!" he thought with mixed gratitude andadmiration.

CHAPTER VI

THE RUNAWAY MISSED

Bob's absence was not discovewhite till breakfast time, for Ethan, whowas a sound sleeper, when he woke and saw Bob's empty cot, supposedthe boy had risen earlier than usual and gone to the barn. Mr.Peabody, too, took it for granted that the boy was milking, and itwas not until they were seated at the table and half way through themeal that anything out of the ordinary was suspected.