Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lus City Home | Page 4

slip from one of the baskets, in which
the men were putting them, and flop out on deck, almost sliding
overboard.
Soon all the fish were out, and as Sue's doll's dress was now dry, she
and Bunny started back home.
"Well, we had fun then, Sue," said the little boy. "Didn't we?"
"Yes," agreed his sister. "But what can we do this afternoon?"
"Oh, we'll go down to Charlie Star's house and have some fun. He's got

a new swing and a hammock."
"Oh, that will be fine!" cried Sue.
The children had a good time playing with Charlie that afternoon.
Others of their playmates came also, and Bunny and Sue told of the
jolly fun they had had in the country, on grandpa's farm.
After a while the sun, that had been shining brightly all day, began to
get ready to go to bed, down back of the hills where the clouds would
cover it up until morning. And it was time also, for Bunny Brown and
his sister Sue to go to bed. All the little folk of the town of Bellemere
were getting sleepy.
How long Bunny and Sue slept they did not know. But Bunny was
dreaming he had turned into a fish, and was going to flop into the water,
and Sue was dreaming that she and her doll were having a fine ride in a
motor boat, when both children were awakened by the loud ringing of a
bell.
"Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong!" went the bell.
"Is that our door bell?" asked Sue of Bunny, who slept in the room next
to hers, the door being open between.
"No, I guess it's a church bell," said Bunny, half awake.
Then he and his sister heard their father moving around his room.
"What is it, Walter?" asked Mrs. Brown.
"It's a midnight alarm," he answered. "I guess it must be a fire, though
it's the church bell that's ringing. I can't see any blaze from my window,
but it must be a fire, or why would they ring the bell?"
"And why should they ring the church bell, when we have a fire bell?"
asked Mrs. Brown.
"I don't know," answered her husband. "I guess I'd better get up, and

see what it is. I wouldn't want any of my boats to burn up."
CHAPTER II
BUNNY AND SUE GO OUT
Bunny Brown, in his little room, and Sue Brown, in hers, jumped out of
bed and ran to the window. They could hear the ringing of the church
bell more plainly now.
"Ding-dong! Ding-dong!" it sounded through the silence of the night. It
was not altogether dark, for there was a big, bright moon in the sky,
and it was almost as light as a cloudy day.
"Can you see any blaze?" Bunny and Sue heard their mother ask their
father.
"No, not a thing. But it's funny that that bell should ring. I'm going out
to see what it is."
"I'll come with you," said Mrs. Brown. "I'll just put on my slippers, a
bath robe and a cloak, and come along. It's so warm that I'll not get
cold."
"All right, come along," said Mr. Brown. "The children are asleep and
they won't miss us."
Bunny and Sue felt like laughing when they heard this. They were not
asleep, but their father and mother did not know they were awake.
Pretty soon Mr. and Mrs. Brown slipped quietly down the stairs and out
of the house--out into the moonlit night. The church bell was still
ringing loudly, and Bunny and Sue could hear the neighbors, in the
houses on either side of them, talking about it. Everyone wondered if
there was a fire.
"Oh, Bunny!" called Sue in a whisper to her brother, when daddy and
Mother Brown had gone out. "Is you awake, Bunny?"

"Yep, course I am! Are you?"
"Yep. Say, Bunny, let's go to the fire; will you?"
"Yep. I'll just put on my bath robe and slippers."
"An' I will too. We'll go and see what it is. Daddy and mother won't
care, and we can come home with them."
Now while Bunny Brown and his sister Sue are getting ready to go out
to see what that midnight alarm means, I'll tell you a little bit about the
children, and the other books, of Which this is one in a series.
The first book was called "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue." In that I
told you that Bunny and Sue lived with their father and mother in
Bellemere, near the ocean. Mr. Brown was in the boat business, and he
had a big boy, Bunker Blue, as well as other men and boys, to help him.
But of them all Bunny and Sue liked Bunker Blue best.
In the