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

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, Sadie West, and a number of other children.
In the town of Bellemere were other persons, more or less friendly to Bunny and Sue. I have mentioned Jed Winkler, an old sailor who owned a monkey named Wango. His sister, Miss Euphemia, was not as fond of monkeys or children as was her brother.
Uncle Tad was an old soldier, who lived in the Brown home. He was really an uncle to Mr. Brown, but Bunny and Sue claimed him as their own. In a distant city lived Aunt Lu, whom the children had once visited.
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue had many adventures besides those told of in the first book.