Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South | Page 3

"Want to help make the snow man?"
"Sure!" answered Charlie.

"Oh, what fun!" added Helen. "May I help?"
"You may help me make the legs," replied Sue. "Bunny says he's going
to throw snowballs at his part--that's the head," she explained.
"That'll be fun!" decided Charlie Star. "Come on, let's hurry up and get
it finished and then we'll see who's the best shot."
"I've got to get a hat made first," Bunny stated. "It'll be a lot more fun
pegging at a tall hat."
"If you could get a real one--one of the shiny black kind--it would be
dandy," said Charlie.
"Well, I can make one just as good of snow," Bunny said. "Come on,
Charlie!"
Together the four children played around the snow man, who was
slowly coming to look more and more like himself.
"Oh, isn't he a big fellow!" cried Helen, walking off a little way to get a
better view.
"Wait till I make his hat," suggested Bunny. "Then he'll look bigger,
and we can hit him easier, Charlie."
"Sure, Bunny!"
"All but his legs!" cried Sue. "You mustn't hit his legs, Bunny Brown.
They're my part."
"No, we won't hit the legs," agreed Bunny. "Charlie, you look for some
pieces of coal for the eyes. I'm going to roll another snowball to make
the tall hat."
Bunny walked over toward the side of his house to find some snow that
had not been trampled on, so he would have a good place to start to roll
the ball that could be cut into the shape of a tall hat. Sue and Helen had
about finished work on the snow man's legs, and Charlie had fitted in

two chunks of black coal for eyes.
"Shall I put some of the red paper on for ears?" asked Charlie, as he
was about to make the mouth.
"Snow men don't have red ears!" laughed Helen.
"My ears get red when they're cold," said Sue.
"We'll make the ears out of snow," called Bunny, who was rolling the
snowball near the house. "I forgot about them. But I guess we don't
need 'em, anyhow."
All of a sudden, as Bunny was bending over to give the hat snowball a
final roll, which would make it about the right size, a queer noise
sounded. It seemed to come from the roof of the Brown house.
Charlie, Sue, and Helen looked up. They saw, sliding down the sloping
roof of the house, a big mass of snow, like a great drift. It was just
above Bunny's head, and the other children could see that it would slide
right down on top of him.
"Look out, Bunny!" screamed Sue.
Her brother glanced up from the ball he was rolling.
"Look out for the slide from the roof!" shouted Charlie.
Bunny started to run, but it was too late. In another second down came
the big mass of snow with a rush, covering Bunny Brown from sight!
CHAPTER II
BUNNY'S TRICK
For a moment after the rush and fall of the snow from the roof, the
mass of white flakes coming down with a swish and a thud, there was
silence. Sue, Helen, and Charlie were so frightened and surprised that
they did not know what to do. Then, after two or three seconds, Sue

seemed to find her voice, and she exclaimed:
"Where's Bunny?"
"He--he's gone!" gasped Helen.
But Charlie understood.
"Bunny's covered up under that snow!" he cried. "We've got to dig him
out. You'd better run in and tell your mother, Sue!"
This was something Sue understood. Mother was the one to tell in
times of trouble, especially when daddy wasn't there.
"Oh, Mother! Mother!" cried Sue, running toward the house, "Bunny is
under the snow--a big pile of it!"
"And we must dig him out!" screamed Helen, remembering what
Charlie had said.
Charlie, while the girls ran screaming toward the house, leaped toward
the pile of snow that had slid from the roof and began digging in it with
his hands.
And while Bunny is under the snow heap, from which he doubtless
hoped soon to be rescued, I will take just a moment or two to tell my
new readers something about Bunny Brown and his sister Sue.
Those were the names of the children. Their father, Mr. Walter Brown,
kept a boat and fish dock in the town of Bellemere on Sandport Bay,
near the ocean. Helping Mr. Brown at the dock was Bunker Blue, a big,
strong boy, very fond of Bunny and Sue. The first book of the series is
called "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue," and in that you may read of
the many adventures the children had together, and with their friends,
who, besides Charlie and Helen, were George and Mary Watson, Harry
Bentley,