Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lus City Home

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's?by Laura Lee Hope, Illustrated by Florence England Nosworthy

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Title: Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home
Author: Laura Lee Hope

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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT AUNT LU'S CITY HOME
by
LAURA LEE HOPE
Author of The Bunny Brown Series, The Bobbsey Twins Series, The Outdoor Girls Series Etc.
Illustrated by Florence England Nosworthy

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Made in the United States of America
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BOOKS
By LAURA LEE HOPE
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated.
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
THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES
For Little Men and Women
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 HOUSEBOAT THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOK THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT HOME
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
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
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Copyright, 1916, by GROSSET & DUNLAP

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home.
[Illustration: "THIS IS WHERE AUNT LU LIVES" Frontispiece (Page 93.) Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home.]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. A MIDNIGHT ALARM 1
II. BUNNY AND SUE GO OUT 14
III. AUNT LU'S INVITATION 23
IV. ON THE GROCERY WAGON 33
V. SURPRISING OLD MISS HOLLYHOCK 40
VI. OFF FOR NEW YORK 49
VII. ON THE TRAIN 58
VIII. AUNT LU'S SURPRISE 68
IX. THE WRONG HOUSE 80
X. IN THE DUMB WAITER 95
XI. A LONG RIDE 105
XII. BUNNY ORDERS DINNER 116
XIII. THE STRAY DOG 129
XIV. THE RAGGED MAN 138
XV. BUNNY GOES FISHING 148
XVI. LOST IN NEW YORK 157
XVII. AT THE POLICE STATION 166
XVIII. HOME AGAIN 175
XIX. BUNNY FLIES A KITE 184
XX. THE PLAY PARTY 193
XXI. THE REAL PARTY 202
XXII. IN THE PARK 211
XXIII. OLD AUNT SALLIE 218
XXIV. WOPSIE'S FOLKS 228
XXV. A HAPPY CHRISTMAS 236

BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT AUNT LU'S CITY HOME
CHAPTER I
A MIDNIGHT ALARM
"Bunny! Bunny Brown! Sue, dear! Aren't you going to get up?"
Mrs. Brown stood in the hall, calling to her two sleeping children. The sun was shining brightly out of doors, but the little folks had not yet gotten out of bed.
"My! But you are sleeping late this morning!" went on Mrs. Brown. "Come, Bunny! Sue! It's time for breakfast!"
There was a patter of bare feet in one room. Then a little voice called.
"Oh, Bunny! I'm up first. Come on, we'll go and help grandma feed the chickens!"
Little Sue Brown tapped on the door of her brother's room.
"Get up, Bunny!" she cried, laughing. "I'm up first; Let's go and get the eggs."
In the room where Bunny Brown slept could be heard a sort of grunting, stretching, yawning sound. That was the little boy waking up. He heard what his sister Sue said.
"Ho! Ho!" he laughed, as he rubbed his sleepy eyes: "Go to get eggs with grandma! I guess you think we're back on grandpa's farm; don't you Sue?" and he came to his door to look out into the hall, where his mother stood smiling at the two children.
When Bunny said that, Sue looked at him in surprise. She rubbed her hand across her eyes once or twice, glanced around the hall, back into her room, and then at her mother. A queer look was on Sue's face.
"Why--why!" she exclaimed. "Oh, why, Bunny Brown! That's just what I did think! I thought we were back at grandpa's, and we're not at all--we're in our home; aren't we?"
"Of course!" laughed Mrs. Brown. "But you were sleeping so late that I thought I had better call you. Aren't you ready to get up? The sun came up