Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While | Page 8

nearly always did what Bunny wanted her to. This time she was
sure it would be lots of fun.
"All right," Bunny went on. "To-night, after it gets all dark, we'll come
down, and sleep here."
"S'pose--s'posin' I get to sleep in my own bed in the house, Bunny?"
"Oh, I'll wake you up," said Bunny. "I won't go to sleep, and I'll come
in and tickle your feet."
Sue laughed. She always laughed when anyone tickled her feet, and

even the thought of it made her giggle.
"Don't tickle 'em too hard, Bunny," she said. "'Cause if you do I'll
sneeze and that will wake up daddy and mother."
"I won't tickle you too hard," Bunny said.
That night, after supper, Mrs. Brown said to her husband:
"Bunny and Sue are up to some trick, I know they are!"
"What makes you think so?" asked Mr. Brown.
"Oh, I can always tell. They are so quiet now, they haven't teased for
anything all afternoon, and now they are getting ready to go to bed,
though it isn't within a half-hour of their time."
"Oh, maybe they're sleepy," said Mr. Brown, who was reading the
paper.
"No, I'm sure they are up to some trick," said Mother Brown.
And now, if you please, just you wait and see whether or not she was
right.
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue did go to bed earlier than usual that
night. Bunny, after supper, had whispered to his sister:
"If we go to bed sooner we can be awake quicker and go down to the
tent."
"Can you open the door?" asked Sue.
"Yes, the back door opens easy."
"But has you got the branches from the evergreen tree cut so we can
spread our blankets over them?" Sue wanted to know.
Bunny shook his head.

"I didn't dast do it," he said. "They might see me cutting 'em, and then
they'd guess what we were going to do. We can each take two blankets
off our beds, Sue, and that will make the ground soft enough. 'Sides, if
we're going to be campers, and sleep in the woods, we mustn't mind a
hard bed. Soldiers don't--for daddy said so."
"Girls aren't soldiers!" said Sue. "But I'll come with you and we'll sleep
on two blankets."
"To practice for when we go camping," added Bunny.
Sue nodded her head, and, with her doll, went up to bed in the room
next to Bunny's.
"I just know those children are up to something," said Mother Brown,
as she came down after tucking in Bunny and Sue. "I wish I knew what
it was."
"Oh, I guess it isn't anything," laughed daddy.
Sue and her brother found it hard to keep awake. They had played hard
all day, and that always makes children sleepy.
In fact, Bunny and Sue did fall asleep, but Bunny awakened sometime
in the night, I suppose because he was thinking so much about going
out into the tent.
The little fellow sat up in bed. A light was burning out in the hall, so he
could see plainly enough. He remembered what he had promised to
do--wake up Sue by tickling her feet.
Softly he stole into her room, after putting on his bath robe. He dragged
after him two blankets from his bed.
Reaching under the covers he gently tickled Sue's pink toes.
"What--What's matter?" murmured Sue, sleepily.
"Hush!" whispered Bunny close to her ear. "Wake up, Sue! I don't want

to tickle you any more, and make you sneeze. We're going to sleep out
in the tent, you know."
Sue was soon wide awake. Softly she crawled out of bed, slipped on
her bath robe, which was on a chair near her bed, and then, dragging
two blankets after her, she and Bunny went softly down the stairs.
Carefully Bunny opened the door, and he and Sue went out on the side
porch, and down across the lawn to where, in the moonlight, stood
grandpa's tent.
CHAPTER IV
SPLASH COMES, TOO
The camping tent, which had been put up by Daddy Brown, so it would
be well dried out, stood wide open. Bunny and Sue, with their
bed-blankets trailing after them, slipped in through the "front door."
Of course, there was not really a "front door" to a tent. There are just
two pieces of canvas, called "flaps," that come together and make a sort
of front door. Between these white flaps Bunny Brown and his sister
Sue went, and they found themselves inside the tent.
"It--it's awful dark, isn't it, Bunny?" whispered Sue, softly.
"Hush!" returned her brother. "We don't want them to see us. It will be
light pretty soon, Sue."
"I--I don't like it dark," she said.
"Shut your eyes and you won't see the dark," Bunny