nearly
nine o'clock
It was dusk when he and Sue took up the shiny track and carried the batteries and other parts of the toy railroad into the sleeping tent , for Bunny said he wanted it near him . The children sat up a little later than usual that night , as they always did when their father had come to the camp from the city . Bunny talked of nothing but his railroad , planning fun for the morrow , while Sue said she was going to get some little girls , who lived in a near-by farmhouse , and have a party for her Teddy bear . `` Time to go to Slumberland now , '' called Mrs. Brown , when it was nearly nine o'clock . `` Go to bed early and you 'll get up so much the earlier . '' So off to their little cots , behind the hanging curtains , went Bunny and Sue , and soon after saying their prayers they were asleep , one to dream he was a conductor on a big electric train , while the other dreamed of carrying a big , crying Teddy bear upside down through the woods with a milk pail hanging to its nose . Just what time it was Bunny and Sue did not know , but they were both suddenly awakened by feeling the tent , on the side nearest to which they slept , being pushed in .