Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue
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by Laura Lee Hope

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Title: Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony
Author: Laura Lee Hope
Illustrator: Thelma Gooch
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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND
PONY
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
AUTHOR OF THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES, THE BOBBSEY
TWINS SERIES, THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES, ETC.
Illustrated by Thelma Gooch
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS

BOOKS BY LAURA LEE HOPE
* * * * *
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, per volume, 50 cents, postpaid.
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=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 BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE BIG WOODS BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE ON AN AUTO TOUR BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND PONY
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=THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES=
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 HOUSE BOAT THE
BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOK THE BOBBSEY TWINS
AT HOME THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND
THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY THE BOBBSEY
TWINS ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA
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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 THE OUTDOOR GIRLS
IN WAR SERVICE
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=GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK=
Copyright, 1918, by GROSSET & DUNLAP
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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony
[Illustration: TOBY WAS RINGING THE BELL.
Frontispiece. (Page 135.)
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. IN THE ARK 1 II. THE FRIGHTENED PONY 11 III. MR.
TALLMAN 24 IV. LOOKING FOR A PONY 32 V. THE SHORT
TALLMAN 40 VI. BUNNY, SUE AND TOBY 51 VII. THE FIRST
RIDE 61 VIII. SUE'S HANDKERCHIEF 69 IX. TOBY'S NEW
TRICK 80 X. TOBY WALKS AWAY 92 XI. OFF TO THE FARM
102 XII. THE WRONG ROAD 111 XIII. TOBY FINDS THE WAY
121 XIV. TOBY'S OTHER TRICK 129 XV. RED CROSS MONEY
139 XVI. IN THE WOODS 148 XVII. THE DARK MAN 159 XVIII.
TOBY IS GONE 166 XIX. THE SEARCH 176 XX. IN A STORM 184
XXI. THE GYPSY CAMP 194 XXII. "THERE'S TOBY!" 204 XXIII.
PRISONERS 216 XXIV. THE RED-AND-YELLOW BOX 226 XXV.
TO THE RESCUE 236

BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND
PONY
CHAPTER I
IN THE ARK
"Oh, Bunny! Here comes Bunker Blue!"
"Where is he? I don't see him!"
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue were playing on the shady side porch
of their house one morning, when the little girl, looking up from a
cracker box which had been made into a bed--where she was putting
her doll to sleep--saw a tall boy walking up the path.
"There's Bunker!" went on Sue to her brother, Bunny, at the same time
pointing. "Maybe he's come to take us for a ride in one of daddy's
fishing boats!"
"Have you, Bunker?" asked Bunny, standing up and brushing some

shavings from his little jacket, for he had been using a dull kitchen
knife, trying to whittle out a wooden boat from a piece of curtain stick.
"Oh, Bunker, have you?"
"Have I what?" asked the tall boy, who worked on the dock where Mr.
Brown, the father of Bunny and Sue, carried on a boat and fish business.
"Have I what?" Bunker asked again, and he stood still and gazed at the
two small children who were anxiously looking at him.
"Have you come to take us for a ride?" asked Bunny.
"In one of daddy's boats?" added Sue, who generally waited for her