Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue
at Christmas
by Laura Lee
Hope

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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT CHRISTMAS TREE
COVE
by
LAURA LEE HOPE
Author of The Bunny Brown Series, The Bobbsey Twins Series, The
Outdoor Girls Series, The Six Little Bunkers Series, The Make-Believe
Series, Etc.
Illustrated

[Illustration: MRS. SLATER AND SUE WATCH BUNNY AND
HARRY BRING IN THE BOX. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at
Christmas Tree Cove. Frontispiece--(Page 210)]

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Made in the United States of
America
* * * * *
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 BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE BIG WOODS BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE ON AN AUTO TOUR BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND PONY BUNNY
BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE GIVING A SHOW BUNNY
BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT CHRISTMAS TREE COVE
THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES
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 BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY THE
BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND THE BOBBSEY
TWINS ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN
WASHINGTON THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE GREAT WEST
THE SIX LITTLE BUNKERS SERIES
(Six Titles)
THE MAKE-BELIEVE SERIES
(Seven Titles)
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES

(Ten Titles)
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
* * * * *
Copyright, 1920, by Grosset & Dunlap
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE BIG DOG 1
II. IN THE CARPENTER SHOP 12
III. THE DIAMOND RING 23
IV. DADDY BRINGS NEWS 38
V. ADRIFT 47
VI. THE STRANGE DOG 59
VII. THE SLEEP-WALKER 68
VIII. A COLLISION 78
IX. THE MERRY GOAT 89
X. IN THE STORM 103
XI. WHERE IS BUNNY? 114
XII. CHRISTMAS TREE COVE 121

XIII. A CRASH 133
XIV. IN THE DARK 140
XV. BUNNY'S TOE 152
XVI. OVERBOARD 161
XVII. THE NEW BOY 170
XVIII. HELD FAST 178
XIX. ANOTHER STORM 187
XX. THE FLOATING BOX 198
XXI. MR. RAVENWOOD 205
XXII. THE SURPRISING LETTER 213
XXIII. "THAT'S THE DOG!" 221
XXIV. IN THE BOAT 228
XXV. WHAT STOPPED THE ENGINE 238

BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT CHRISTMAS TREE
COVE
CHAPTER I
THE BIG DOG
"Come on, Bunny, let's just have one more teeter-tauter!" cried Sue,
dancing around on the grass of the yard. "Just one more!" and she raced
over toward a board, put across a sawhorse, swaying up and down as
though inviting children to have a seesaw.

"We can't teeter-tauter any more, Sue," objected Bunny Brown. "We
have to go to the store for mother."
"Yes, I know we have to go; but we can go after we've had another
seesaw just the same, can't we?"
Bunny Brown, who was carrying by the leather handle a black handbag
his mother had given him, looked first at his sister and then at the board
on the sawhorse, gently moving up and down in the summer breeze.
"Come on!" cried Sue again, "and this time she danced off toward the
swaying board, singing as she did so:
"Teeter-tauter Bread and water, First your son and Then your
daughter."
Bunny Brown stood still for a moment, looking back toward the house,
out of which he and Sue had come a little while before.
"Mother told us to go to the store," said Bunny slowly.
"Yes, and we're