Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on an Auto Tour | Page 4

Laura Lee Hope
which he understood. "Our neighbors, Mr. and
Mrs. Ward," she continued, "are in great distress. Their only son, Fred,
has run away from home."

"Oh, that's too bad!" exclaimed Mr. Brown. "I shouldn't have come in.
I'll----"
"No, stay, we'll want your advice," said Mrs. Brown. "Mr. Ward was
just going to read a letter his son left. I want you to listen to it and tell
us what is best to do. You know you are on the police board."
"Of course I'll do all I can," said Mr. Brown. "First let me hear the letter.
You can sometimes tell a good deal of what's in a person's mind by the
way he writes."
And while Mr. Brown is listening to the letter left by the runaway boy,
I'll tell my new readers something more about Bunny Brown and his
Sister Sue, and the things that happened to them in the books before
this.
The first volume is named "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue," and it
tells of what happened to the two children in their home town of
Bellemere, on Sandport Bay, near the ocean. There the little boy and
girl had fine times, and they took a trolley ride to a far city, getting lost.
The second book told of "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on
Grandpa's Farm," and you can imagine the fun they had there, getting
lost in the woods and going to picnics. After that the two children
played Circus in the book of that name, and they had real animals in
their show, though you could not exactly call them wild.
"Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home," is the
name of the fourth book, and in the big city Bunny and Sue had
stranger adventures than ever.
After that Mr. Brown took the whole family to "Camp Rest-a-While." It
was a lovely place in the woods and they lived in tents. Uncle Tad went
with them, and ever so many things happened to the children there.
Their dog Splash had good times too.
Camp Rest-a-While was near the edge of the big woods, and in the
book called "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods,"

which is just before this one, you may read of the adventures with
Bunny's train of electric cars, and of the fun Sue had with her electrical
Teddy bear, which could flash its eyes when a button was pressed in his
back--or rather, her back, for Sue had named her Teddy bear Sallie
Malinda, insisting that it was a girl bear.
And now the Brown family was home again from the big woods, ready
for other happenings. And that they were going to have adventures
might be guessed from what Mr. Brown started to say about some news.
But just now he was reading the letter Fred Ward had written to his
parents.
"Hum! That is a strange note for a boy to leave," said Mr. Brown
slowly. "He evidently doesn't intend to come home very soon."
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Mrs. Ward, and commenced to weep once more.
"I tell her he may come home soon, for he has no money--or at least
very little to live on," said the missing boy's father. "You see Fred has a
high spirit, and he did not like it when I had to punish him. But I did it
for his good. He must learn the value of money, and he must not spend
when I tell him not to."
"No, that is not right," said Mr. Brown thoughtfully. He handed the
note to his wife. She read this:
"Father and Mother: I am not coming back for a long while. I do not
think you treated me right. I am more than fifteen years old and I have
a right to have a banjo if I want it. I want to be a player and play in the
theater. That is what I am going to do. I am not going to be treated like
a baby by my father. I am too old."
"I did not mean to treat him like a baby," said Mr. Ward. "But our
children must be made to obey in things that are right."
"That is true," agreed Mrs. Brown.
"We mind sometimes," said Bunny. "Don't we, Momsie?"

"Yes, once in a while. But please run away and play now, until we call
you. There comes Splash over to have a game with Dix. You children
can go out with the dogs."
Bunny and Sue were eager enough to do this. They thought they had
heard enough about the missing boy. They were to hear more in a short
time.
"And so Fred has run away," said Mr. Ward, speaking to Mr. and Mrs.
Brown. "How can
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