Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lus City Home | Page 5

first book I told how Bunny's and Sue's Aunt Lu came from the
city of New York to pay them a long visit, how she lost her diamond
ring, and how Bunny found it in the queerest way.
In the second book, named "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on
Grandpa's Farm," I told how the Brown family went on a trip in a big
automobile. It was a regular moving van of an automobile, and so large
that Bunny and Sue, Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Bunker Blue could eat
and sleep in it. They camped out during the two or more days they were
making the trip to grandpa's.
And what fun the children had in the country! You may read in the
book all about how they saw the Gypsies, how they were frightened by
tramps at the picnic, how they were lost, and what jolly times they had
with their dog Splash.
Then, too, Bunny and Sue helped find grandpa's horses, that the
Gypsies had taken away. So, altogether, the children had lots of fun on
Grandpa Brown's farm. They even went to a circus, and this brings me

to the third book, which is called: "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue
Playing Circus."
And that is just what Bunny and Sue did. They got up a little circus of
their own, and held it in grandpa's barn. Then Bunker Blue, and some
of the larger boys in the country, thought they would get up a show.
They did, and held it in two tents. Of course Bunny and Sue helped.
A week or so after the circus Bunny and Sue, with Bunker, and their
father and mother (and of course their dog Splash) came back from the
country in the big automobile.
Bunny and Sue had many friends in Bellemere where they lived. Not
only were the boys and girls their friends, but also many grown folk,
who liked the Brown children very much indeed. There was Mrs.
Redden, who kept the village candy store, and there was Uncle Tad, an
old soldier, who lived in the Brown house. Bunny and Sue liked them
very much.
Then there was old Jed Winkler, a sailor, who lived with his sister,
Miss Euphemia Winkler, and a monkey. That's right! Mr. Winkler did
have a pet monkey named Wango, and he was very funny--I mean the
monkey was funny. He was so gentle that Bunny and Sue often petted
him, and gave him candy and peanuts to eat. Wango did many queer
tricks.
But now I think I have told you enough about Bunny and Sue, as well
as about their friends, so we will go back to the children. We left them
getting ready to go out into the moonlight, you know, to see what the
ringing of the church bell meant.
"Is you all ready, Bunny?" called Sue when she had put on her bath
robe and slippers.
"Yep," he answered. "Come on."
Hand in hand the children went softly down the front stairs, as their
father and mother had done. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were now out in the

street, some distance away from the house. Men and women from
several other houses, near that of the Brown family, were also out,
wondering why the bell was ringing.
"Don't wake up Uncle Tad!" whispered Bunny to Sue, as they walked
along so softly in their bath slippers.
"No, I won't," answered the little girl. "And don't wake up Mary, either.
She might not let us go."
"All right," whispered Bunny.
Mary was the cook, but, as she slept up on the third floor, she would
hardly hear the children going out.
"Shut the door easy," said Bunny to Sue, as they reached the front steps.
"Don't let it slam."
They had found the door open, as Mr. and Mrs. Brown had left it, and
the two children, each taking hold of it, closed it softly after them.
"Now we're all right!" whispered Bunny, as he started down the street
on the run, for the bell was ringing louder than ever now, and Bunny
was anxious to see the fire, if there was one. He hoped it would not be
one of his father's boats, or the office on the fish dock.
"Wait! Wait for me!" cried Sue to her brother. "I can't run so fast,
Bunny, 'cause I'll stumble over my bath robe. It's awful long!"
"Hold it up, just as I do," said Bunny, turning around to look at his
sister. "Hold it up, and then your legs won't get tangled in it."
Sue pulled the robe up to her knees, and held it there. Bunny was doing
the same thing, the bare legs of the children showing white in the
moonlight. Bunny started off again.