Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lus City Home | Page 9

Bunny wanted to know.
"I'm afraid not, in New York City," Mr. Brown said. "But you can have
other kinds of fun, Bunny and Sue."
"Oh, I can hardly wait for the time to come!" cried Sue, as she once
more danced around the room with her doll.
"Let's go out in the yard and play teeter-tauter," called Bunny. "That
will make the time pass quicker, Sue."
Bunker Blue had made for the children a seesaw from a long plank put
over a wooden sawhorse. When Bunny sat on one end of the plank, and
Sue on the other, they went first up and then down, "teeter-tauter, bread
and water," as they sang when they played this game.
Soon the brother and sister were enjoying themselves this way, talking
about what fun they would have at Aunt Lu's city home. Then, all at
once, Bunny jumped off the seesaw, and of course Sue came down with
a bump.
"Oh, Bunny Brown!" she cried, "what did you do that for? Why didn't
you tell me you were goin' to get off, an' then I could stop myself from
bumpin'."

"I'm sorry," said Bunny. "I didn't know I was going to jump till I did.
Did you get hurted?"
"No, but I might have. And you knocked my doll out of my lap, and
maybe she's hurted."
"Oh, you can't hurt a doll!" cried Bunny. "Pooh!"
"Yes you can, too!"
"No you can't!"
The children might have gone on talking in this unpleasant way for
some time, only, just then, up the side drive came Mr. Gordon's grocery
wagon, with Tommie Tobin, the grocery boy, on the seat driving the
horse.
"Oh, he's got things in for us!" cried Sue. "Let's go an' see what they is,
Bunny. Maybe it's cookies, and we can have one. I'm hungry, and it
isn't near dinner time yet. It's only cookie time."
The two children went over to the grocery wagon. Tommie Tobin
jumped off the seat, and hurried into the Brown kitchen with a basket
of things. He did not see Bunny and Sue, as they were on the other side
of the wagon.
Just then Bunny had an idea. He often got ideas in his queer little head.
"Oh, Sue!" he cried. "I know what let's do!"
"What?" she asked.
"Let's get in the grocery wagon, and have a ride."
"Oh, Bunny! All right. Let's!"
Softly the children drew nearer the wagon. Then Sue thought of
something.

"But, Bunny," she said, "Tommie won't like it. Maybe he won't let us
ride."
"Oh, he'll like it all right," said Bunny. "He gave Charlie Star a ride the
other day. Anyhow he won't know it."
"Who won't know it; Charlie?"
"No, Tommie. We'll get in the wagon, and hide down between the
boxes and baskets, while he's in our house. Then he won't see us. Come
on, Sue."
"But it's so high up I can't get in, Bunny."
"Oh, I'll help you. Here, we can stand on this box, and then we can easy
get up."
Bunny found a box beside the drive-way. He put it up near the back of
the grocery wagon, and stood up on it. Then he helped Sue up on the
box.
"Now you can get in," said the little boy. "I'll boost you, just like
Bunker Blue boosts me when I climb trees. Up you go, Sue!"
Bunny raised Sue up from the box. She put one leg over the tail-board
of the wagon, and down inside she tumbled in the midst of the grocery
packages, the boxes and baskets.
"Here I come!" cried Bunny, and in he came tumbling. He fell between
Sue and a bag of potatoes. Just then the children heard a joyous whistle.
"Now keep still--keep very still," whispered Bunny to Sue. "Here
comes Tommie, and if he doesn't see us he'll drive off and give us a
nice ride. Keep still, Sue."
Sue kept very still. So did Bunny. Tommie came out whistling. He
tossed the empty basket into the back of the wagon, gave one jump up
on to the seat, and cried:

"Giddap!"
Off trotted the horse with the wagon, taking Sue and Bunny for a ride,
along with the groceries.
CHAPTER V
SURPRISING OLD MISS HOLLYHOCK
"Aren't we having a fine ride, Bunny?"
"Hush, Sue! Not so loud! He'll hear us!" whispered the little boy, as he
and his sister cuddled down in among the boxes and baskets in the
grocery wagon.
"But it is a nice ride; isn't it?"
"It sure is, Sue." Bunny laughed in a sort of whisper, so Tommie, the
boy who drove the wagon, would not hear him. And, so far, Tommie
had no idea that he was taking with him Bunny and Sue.
The two children had no