Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus | Page 4

hang by their feet, with their heads upside down, all the blood seems to
run there if they hang too long. And that was what was happening to
Bunny Brown.
"Are you sure you isn't playin' circus?" asked Sue.
"No--I--I'm not playing," answered Bunny. "Hurry for grandpa! Oh,
how my head hurts!"
"You look just like the circus man," said Sue. For one of the men in the
circus Bunny and Sue had seen a few days before had hung by his toes
from a trapeze, upside down, just as Bunny was hanging, with his head
pointing toward the ground, and his feet near the top of the tent.
But of course the circus man was used to it, and it did not hurt his head
as it did Bunny's.
"Hurry, Sue!" begged the little boy.
"All right. I'll get grandpa," Sue cried, as she ran off toward the tree
where Grandpa Brown was picking peaches.
"Oh, Grandpa!" cried the little girl. "Come--come hurry up.
Bunny--Bunny--he----"
Sue was so out of breath, from having run so fast, and from trying to
talk so fast, that she could hardly speak. But Grandpa Brown knew
something was the matter.
"What is it, Sue?" he asked. "What has happened to Bunny? Did a bee

sting him?"
"No, Grandpa. But he--he's like the circus man, only he says he isn't
playin' he is a circus. He's upside down in the tree, and he's a wigglin'
an' a wogglin' an' he can't get down, an' his face is all red an' he wants
you, an'--an'----"
"My goodness me!" exclaimed Grandpa Brown, setting on the ground
his basket, now half full of peaches. "What is that boy up to now?"
For Bunny Brown, and often his sister Sue, did get into all sorts of
mischief, though they did not always mean to do so. "What has Bunny
done now, I wonder?" asked grandpa.
"He--he couldn't help it," said Sue. "He slipped when he went up the
tree, and now he's swinging by his legs just like the man in the circus,
only Bunny says he isn't."
"He isn't what?" asked Grandpa Brown, as he hurried along, taking
hold of Sue's hand. "What isn't he, Sue? I never did see such children!"
and Grandpa Brown shook his head.
"Bunny says he isn't the man in the circus," explained Sue.
"No, I shouldn't think he would be a man in the circus," said grandpa.
"He looks just like a circus man, though," insisted Sue. "But he says he
isn't playin' that game."
Sue shook her head. She did not know what it all meant, nor why
Bunny was hanging in such a queer way. But Grandpa Brown would
make it all right. Sue was sure of that.
"There he is! There's Bunny upside down!" cried Sue, pointing to the
tree in which Bunny was hanging by his feet.
"Oh, my!" cried Grandpa Brown. Then he ran forward, took Bunny in
his arms, and raised him up. This lifted Bunny's feet free from the tree
branches, between which they were caught, and then Grandpa Brown

turned the little boy right side up, and set him down on his feet.
"There you are, Bunny!" cried grandpa. "But how did it happen? Were
you trying to be a circus, all by yourself?"
"N--n--no," stammered Bunny, for he could hardly get his breath yet.
"I--I slipped down when I was reaching for a big, red peach for Sue.
But I didn't slip all the way, for my feets caught in the tree."
"Well, it's a good thing they did, or you might have been hurt worse
than you were," said Grandpa Brown. "But I guess you're not hurt
much now; are you?"
Bunny looked down at his feet. Then he felt of his own arms and legs.
He took a long breath. His face was not so red now.
"I--I guess I'm all right," he answered, at last.
"Well, don't climb any more trees," said Grandpa Brown. "You are too
little."
Bunny thought he was quite a big boy, but of course grandpa knew
what was right.
"I--I won't climb any more peach trees," said Bunny Brown.
"No, nor any other kind!" exclaimed his grandfather. "Just keep out of
trees. Little boys and girls are safest on the ground. But now you had
better come over where I can keep my eyes on you. I have my basket
nearly filled. We'll very soon go back to the house."
Bunny Brown was all right now. So he and Sue went over to the tree
where grandpa was picking. They helped to fill the basket, for some of
the peaches grew on branches so close to the ground that the children
could reach up and pick them without any trouble.
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue