Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While | Page 5

away, how Ben Hall did
his queer tricks, and what happened to him after that.
When the two Brown children came back from grandpa's farm they
received an invitation from Aunt Lu, to spend the fall and winter at her
city home in New York.
"Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home" is the name
of the book telling all that happened when the two children went to

New York. They met a little colored girl, named Wopsie, they were lost
in a monkey store, Bunny flew his kite from the roof of Aunt Lu's
house, and toward the end Bunny and Sue were run away with when in
a pony cart in Central Park.
At first they did not like being run away with, but after they were
spilled out, and Aunt Sallie picked them up, and she and Wopsie found
out that they--but there! I mustn't put so much of that book in this book.
You would much rather read it yourself, I am sure.
So I'll just say that at Aunt Lu's city home Bunny and Sue had many
good times, and enjoyed themselves very much. They were almost
sorry when it was time to come home, but of course they could not
always stay in New York.
But now it was spring, and Bunny and Sue were once more back in
Bellemere. They had met all their old friends again, and had played
with them, until this day, when, as I have told you, it was raining too
hard to go out.
Before I go on with this story, I might say that Bunny was about six
years old, and Sue a year younger. The two children were always
together, and whatever Bunny did Sue thought was just right. It was not
always, though, for often Bunny did things that got him and Sue into
trouble.
Bunny did not mean this, but he was a brave, smart little chap, always
wanting to do something to have fun, or to find out something new. He
would often take chances in doing something new, when he did not
know what would happen, or what the ending would be. And Sue liked
fun so much, also, that she always followed Bunny.
The children knew everyone in the village of Bellemere, and everyone
knew them, from Old Miss Hollyhock (a poor woman to whom Bunny
and Sue were often kind) to Wango, the queer little monkey, owned by
Jed Winkler, the old sailor. Wango did many funny tricks, and he, too,
got into mischief. Sometimes it was hard to say who got oftener into
trouble--Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, or Wango, the queer little

monkey.
Now that I have told you all this, so my newest little
children-reader-friends will feel that they know Bunny and Sue as well
as everyone else, I will go back to the story.
Bunny and Sue were still sitting on their father's knee.
"Well, tell us the surprise!" begged Sue, reaching over and kissing her
daddy.
"And make it like a story," begged Bunny.
"I haven't time to make it like a story now, my dears," said Mr. Brown.
"But the bundle you saw the expressman bring to the barn this
afternoon was the tent from grandpa's farm."
"The same one we played circus in?" Bunny wanted to know.
"The same one," answered his father. "I asked grandpa to send it to
me."
"What are we going to do with it, Daddy?" Sue asked. "I've tried and
tried, but I can't guess."
"Well, this is the surprise," replied Daddy Brown, "and I hope you'll
like it. We are going off into the woods camping--that means living in a
tent. We'll cook in a tent--that is when it rains so we can't have a
campfire out of doors--we'll eat in the tent and we'll sleep in it."
"Oh, Daddy! Shall we--really?" cried Bunny, almost falling off his
father's knee he was so excited.
"Yes, that's what we're going to do," said Mr. Brown. "We are going to
spend the summer in camp, under a tent instead of in a cottage, as we
sometimes do. Will you like that?"
"Oh, I just guess we will!" cried Bunny Brown.

"And can I take my dolls along--will there be room for 'em?" asked
Sue.
"Oh, yes, plenty of room," answered Daddy Brown.
"And will Splash come?" Bunny wanted to know.
"Oh, yes, we'll take your dog along, of course. It wouldn't be like a real
camp without Splash. So now you know what the tent is for."
"May we go out and look at it?" asked Bunny.
"Oh, no, son. Not to-night. It's still raining, and the tent is all wet. It
will dry out in a few days. Besides, you've seen the tent up."
"It's just