Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony | Page 4

when we get to East Milford
we can----"
"Oh, we can jump out and holler 'boo!' at him an' scare him!" laughed
Sue, clapping her chubby hands in delight.
"Yes, we can do that. But not now!" whispered Bunny. "Hurry up an'
crawl in, an' don't make any noise!"
So the two children entered the ark by the rear door, and found some
blankets with which they covered themselves in two of the bunks, built
on the sides of the big auto.
What would happen next?
CHAPTER II

THE FRIGHTENED PONY
Bunker Blue came whistling out of the house. He and Uncle Tad had
moved the sideboard to the other end of the room, and now Mrs. Brown
and the hired girl were putting the place to rights.
"Well, I wonder where Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue have gone?"
said Bunker, aloud, as he stopped whistling. "I don't see them," and he
looked around. "I'd like to give them a ride in the ark," he went on, "but
their father didn't say anything about it, and he might not like it. When
the big auto gets fixed then I can take them for a ride."
Then Bunker went out to the barn and took his seat at the steering
wheel of the ark.
"Well, here I go!" he said, still talking aloud to himself, as he often did,
and he put his foot on the self-starter, which made the engine of the
auto go without any one having to get out in front and turn the handle,
like the crank of a hand organ. "Here I go, but I do wish I could give
Bunny and Sue a ride."
And back in the auto, under some blankets in the bunks, sounded two
snickering noises.
"Hello! I wonder what that is?" exclaimed Bunker, as he heard them.
"Is that you, Splash?" he called, for sometimes, he knew, the big dog
that Bunny and Sue so often played with, crawled into the auto to sleep.
"Is that you, Splash?"
No answer came.
"I guess it was just the wind," said Bunker Blue, as he steered the auto
out through the big barn doors. "It was only the wind."
And inside the ark Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue had to stuff their
chubby fists into their mouths to keep from laughing. Oh, if Bunker
Blue should hear them!

As Bunker steered the big auto down the driveway past the house, Mrs.
Brown came running to the door, waving her hand.
"Bunker! Bunker Blue!" she cried. "Wait a minute!"
The auto was making such a noise that the fish boy could not hear what
Mrs. Brown was saying, but he could see her.
"Whoa!" he called, just as if the big auto were a horse; and then he put
on the brakes and brought it to a stop.
"Bunker," went on Mrs. Brown, "Mr. Brown just telephoned me to tell
you to drive down to the dock and stop for him. He's going to East
Milford with you. He wants to talk to the garage man about fixing the
auto," for the big machine needed some repairs after its long tour.
"All right. I'll stop at the dock and get Mr. Brown," said Bunker. "I
guess he must have got the fish iced and put away sooner than he
expected. Now if I had Bunny and Sue I could take them with me," he
went on.
"Take Bunny and Sue with you? What do you mean?" asked Mrs.
Brown.
"Oh, when they heard I was going to East Milford with the ark they
wanted to come along. But I said I didn't believe their father would let
them, and I didn't have time to go back and ask him. But now, as long
as I have to go to the dock to get him, I could take them with me, and
ask him now. Maybe he'd let them go."
"Yes, it is too bad," said Mrs. Brown. "But I don't know where the
children went. I guess they ran over to Sadie West's house to play. But
you haven't time to stop for them if Mr. Brown is in a hurry. They can
ride some other time. Drive along, Bunker."
Now if Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue had heard this talk they might,
then and there, have called out that they were already in the auto. And,
if they had done so, perhaps a whole lot of things that happened

afterwards might not have happened.
But you never can tell what is going to take place next in this world.
The reason Bunny and Sue didn't hear what their mother and Bunker
said was because they had their heads covered with the blankets, so
their snickers and laughter wouldn't be heard outside the ark.