Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue
Playing Circus

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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE PLAYING CIRCUS
by
LAURA LEE HOPE
Author of The Bunny Brown Series, The Bobbsey Twins Series, The
Outdoor Girls Series, etc.
Illustrated by Florence England Nosworthy

[Illustration: THEN BUNNY AND SUE JUMPED THROUGH
HOOPS COVERED WITH PAPER. _Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue
Playing Circus._ Frontispiece (P. 117).]

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
1916
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BOOKS
By LAURA LEE HOPE
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12mo. Cloth, Illustrated. Price, per volume, 50 cents, postpaid.
* * * * *
THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE BUNNY BROWN AND
HIS SISTER SUE ON GRANDPA'S FARM BUNNY BROWN AND
HIS SISTER SUE PLAYING CIRCUS BUNNY BROWN AND HIS
SISTER SUE AT AUNT LU'S CITY HOME BUNNY BROWN AND
HIS SISTER SUE AT CAMP REST-A-WHILE
THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES
For Little Men and Women
THE BOBBSEY TWINS THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE
COUNTRY THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE THE
BOBBSEY TWINS AT SCHOOL THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT
SNOW LODGE THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON A HOUSEBOAT THE
BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOK THE BOBBSEY TWINS
AT HOME
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THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS
AT RAINBOW LAKE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A MOTOR CAR
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP THE OUTDOOR
GIRLS IN FLORIDA THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT OCEAN VIEW
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS ON PINE ISLAND
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Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York
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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. BUNNY IS UPSIDE DOWN 1 II. LET'S HAVE A CIRCUS! 10 III.
THE POOR OLD HEN 21 IV. A STRANGE BOY 30 V.
SOMETHING QUEER 40 VI. BEN HALL HELPS 48 VII. BUNNY
HAS A FALL 56 VIII. THE DOLL IN THE WELL 65 IX. THE
STRIPED CALF 73 X. THE OLD ROOSTER 82 XI. PRACTICE FOR
THE CIRCUS 93 XII. THE LITTLE CIRCUS 102 XIII. THE WILD
ANIMALS 111 XIV. BUNNY AND SUE GO SAILING 121 XV.
SPLASH IS LOST 131 XVI. GETTING THE TENTS 142 XVII.
BUNNY AND THE BALLOONS 152 XVIII. THE STORM 163 XIX.
HARD WORK 174 XX. THE MISSING MICE 185 XXI. THE BIG
CIRCUS 194 XXII. BUNNY'S BRAVE ACT 206 XXIII. BEN DOES
A TRICK 215 XXIV. BEN'S SECRET 227 XXV. BACK HOME
AGAIN 238

BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE PLAYING CIRCUS
CHAPTER I
BUNNY IS UPSIDE DOWN
"Grandpa, where are you going now?" asked Bunny Brown.
"And what are you going to do?" asked Bunny Brown's sister Sue.
Grandpa Brown, who was walking down the path at the side of the
farmhouse, with a basket on his arm, stood and looked at the two
children. He smiled at them, and Bunny and Sue smiled back, for they

liked Grandpa Brown very much, and he just loved them.
"Are you going after the eggs?" asked Sue.
"That basket is too big for eggs," Bunny observed.
"It wouldn't be--not for great, great, big eggs," the little girl said.
"Would it, Grandpa?"
"No, Sue. I guess if I were going out to gather ostrich eggs I wouldn't
get many of them in this basket. But I'm not going after eggs. Not this
time, anyhow."
"Where are you going?" asked Bunny once more.
"What's a--a ockstritch?" asked Sue, for that was as near as she could
say the funny word.
"An ostrich," answered Grandpa Brown, "is a big bird, much bigger
than the biggest Thanksgiving turkey. It has long legs, and fine feathers,
and ladies wear them on their hats. I mean they wear the ostrich
feathers, not the bird's legs."
"And do ockstritches lay big eggs?" Sue wanted to know.
"They do," answered Grandpa Brown. "They lay eggs in the hot sand of
the desert, and they are big eggs. I