"Bunker! Bunker Blue!
Wake up! There's two people outside, and one says Katy did it, and the
other says she didn't--who's right?"
CHAPTER X
OUT IN THE BOAT
Bunker Blue turned sleepily over on his cot.
"What--what's that?" he asked of Tom.
"Listen," Tom answered. "Don't you hear that, Bunker? First someone is
hollering about Katy's doing something, and then somebody else yells
that she didn't do it. Say, I don't like it here."
Bunker Blue laughed aloud.
"What's the matter out there?" asked Daddy Brown.
"Oh, it's only Tom," said the red-haired boy. "He doesn't like the song
of the katydids."
"Song! Is that a song?" asked Tom.
"Some people call it that," said Mr. Brown, for he knew that a city boy
might be just as frightened of sounds in the country as a country boy
might of sounds in the city.
"That noise is made by a little green bug, called a katydid," Mr. Brown
explained. "It looks something like a grasshopper."
"But they don't all say 'Katy did,'" objected Tom.
"No, some of them seem to say 'Katy didn't,'" agreed Mr. Brown. "Of
course they don't really say those words.
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