Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue | Page 2

"And I really did dream that, Sue.
And I'm glad you woke me up, for I want to meet Aunt Lu."
"Then let's hurry and get dressed," Sue went on. "Maybe we can run
down to the station before breakfast. Aunt Lu will be hungry, and we
can show her the way to our house."
"That's so," agreed Bunny. "But maybe we'd better take a piece of
bread and butter down to the station for her," he added, after thinking
about it for a few seconds.
"Or a piece of cake," added his sister.
"We'll take both!" exclaimed the blue-eyed, chubby little chap. Then he

began to dress. Sue, who had gone back into her own little room, had
almost finished putting on her clothes, but, as her dress buttoned up the
back, she had to come in and ask Bunny to fasten it for her. This he was
ready to do as soon as he had pulled on his stockings and little
knickerbockers.
"Shall I start at the top button, or the bottom one, Sue?" he asked, as he
stood behind his sister.
"It doesn't matter," said Sue, "as long as you get it buttoned. But hurry,
Bunny. We don't want the train to get in, and Aunt Lu get off, with us
not there to meet her. Hurry!"
"All right--I will," and Bunny began buttoning the dress. But soon a
queer look came over his face. "Aren't you done?" asked Sue, as he
stopped using his fingers.
"Yes, I'm done, Sue, but I've got two buttons left over, and there's only
one buttonhole to put 'em in! What'll I do?" Bunny was quite puzzled.
"Oh, you must have buttoned me wrong, Bunny," Sue said. "But never
mind. Nobody will notice so early in the morning. Now come on down
stairs, and we'll get the bread and cake."
The children went to the dining room, where the table was set for
breakfast, and Sue was cutting off a rather large slice from a cake she
had found in the pantry, while Bunny was putting twice as much butter
on a slice of bread as was needed, when their mother's voice exclaimed:
"Why, Bunny Brown! Sue! What in the world are you children doing?
Up so early, too, and not properly dressed! Why did you get up? The
idea!"
"We're going to the station," Sue said. It really was her idea. She had
thought of it the night before, when their mother had told them her
sister (the children's Aunt Lu) would arrive in the morning. "We're
going to the station," said Sue.

"To meet Aunt Lu," added Bunny.
"And we're taking her some cake so she won't be hungry for breakfast,"
went on Sue.
"And bread," Bunny continued. "Maybe she don't like cake, so I'm
taking bread."
"If she doesn't eat the cake, we can," Sue said, as if that was the easiest
way out.
"Of course," Bunny echoed.
Mrs. Brown sat down in a chair and began to laugh. She had to sit
down, for she laughed very hard indeed, and when she did that she used
to shake in such a jolly fashion that, perhaps, she would have fallen if
she had not been sitting in a chair.
"Oh, you children!" she said, when she had wiped the tears from her
eyes with the corner of her apron. She was not exactly crying, you
know. Only she laughed so hard that tears came into her eyes. "You
queer, dear little children!" she said. "What are you going to do next?"
"Why, we're going to the station as soon as I get the bread buttered, and
Sue puts the cake in a bag," Bunny said. He did not seem to feel that
anything was wrong.
"Oh, my dears, Aunt Lu's train won't be in for some time--two or three
hours," said Mrs. Brown. "And you know I've told you never to go
down to the station alone."
"Couldn't you come with us?" asked Sue, eating a few of the cake
crumbs.
"Or maybe papa," added Bunny. "If he can't Bunker can. Bunker knows
the way to the station."
"And Bunker likes cake, too," Sue said. "We might give him a piece, if
Aunt Lu doesn't want it."

"No, no! You musn't give away my cake like that," said Mrs. Brown.
"Now listen to me. It will be hours before Aunt Lu will get here. Then,
perhaps, I may take you to the station to meet her. But now I must dress
you right and give you your breakfast. Papa had his some time ago, as
he had to go down to the bay to see about some boats. I wondered why
you were getting up so early. Now put back the bread and cake and
wait until I give you something