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

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 like when we had it for the circus," explained Sue. "I don't want to go out to the barn and see it, Bunny. I'm hungry, and I want my supper."
"It's almost ready," said Mother Brown. "Then we really are going camping?" She looked at her husband as she asked the question.
"Yes, I thought that would be a nice way to spend the summer vacation," said Mr. Brown. "Grandpa's tent is very large. We can sleep in that one. I also have a smaller tent, in which we can set a table, and next to that will be one, still smaller, where we can cook on an oil stove in wet weather. We'll have a real camp!"
"Oh, fine!" cried Bunny.
"How nice!" exclaimed Sue.
"And where are we going to camp?" Mother Brown questioned.
"Up in the woods, about ten miles from here, near Lake Wanda," answered Mr. Brown. "And, now that I've told you all about the surprise, I think, we'll have supper."
CHAPTER III
BUNNY AND SUE SLEEP OUT
After supper the two children, and their father