Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show | Page 2

all like that! And we can get out our
sleds, and we can go skating and make snow men and--and--and----"
But she just had to stop. She was all out of breath, and she didn't seem
to have any words left with which to talk to Bunny.
"Oh! Snow!" exclaimed Bunny, and he said; it in such a funny way that
Sue laughed.
Just then in came her mother from the kitchen where she had been
baking more cakes for her little boy.
"Oh, it's you, is it, Sue?" asked Mrs. Brown. "Do you want some more
breakfast?"
"No, thank you, Mother. I had mine. I just came in to tell Bunny it's
snowing. And we can have a lot of fun, can't we?"
"Well, you children do manage to have a lot of fun, one way or
another," said Mrs. Brown, with a smile.
"Is it snowing, Mother?" asked Bunny, too excited now to want to
finish his breakfast.
"Yes, it really is," answered Mrs. Brown. "I was so busy getting enough
cakes baked for you that I didn't notice the snow much. But, as Sue
says, it is coming down quite fast."
"Hurray!" cried Bunny, even as Sue had done. "Do you think there will
be lots of the snow?"
"Well, it looks as though there might be quite a storm for the first snow
of the season," replied the mother of Bunny Brown and his sister Sue.
"It's a bit early this year, too. It's almost two weeks until Thanksgiving
and here it is snowing. I'm afraid we're going to have a hard winter."
"With lots of snow and ice, Mother?" asked Bunny.

"Yes. And with cold weather that isn't good for poor folks."
"Oh, I'm glad!" cried Bunny. "Not about the poor folks, though," he
added quickly, as he saw his mother look at him in surprise. "But I'm
glad there'll be lots of ice. Sue and I can go skating."
"And there'll be lots of ice for ice-cream next summer," added Sue.
Mrs. Brown laughed. Then, as she saw Bunny racing to the window
with Sue, to push aside the curtains and look out at the falling white
flakes, she said:
"Come back and finish your breakfast, Bunny. I want to clear off the
table."
"I want to see the snow, first," replied the little boy. "Anyhow, I guess
I've had enough cakes."
"Oh, and I just brought in some nice, hot, brown ones!" exclaimed Mrs.
Brown.
"I'll help eat 'em!" offered Sue, and though she had had her breakfast a
little while before, she now ate part of a second one, helping her
brother.
It was Saturday, and, as there was no school, Mrs. Brown had allowed
both children to sleep a little later than usual. Sue had been up first, and,
after eating her breakfast and playing around the house, she had gone to
the window to look out and wish that Bunny would get up to play and
have fun with her.
Then she had seen the first snow of the season and had run into the
dining room to find her brother there eating his late meal.
"May we go out in the snow and play?" asked Bunny, when he had
finished the last of the brown cakes and the sweet syrup.
"Yes, if you put on your boots and your warm coats. You don't want to
get cold, you know, or you can't go to the play in the Opera House this

afternoon."
"Oh, we've got to see that!" cried Bunny. "I 'most forgot; didn't you,
Sue?"
"Yes," replied the little girl, "I did. Maybe it will snow so hard that they
can't have the show, like once it rained so hard we couldn't play circus
in the tent Grandpa put up for us in the lot."
"Yes, it did rain hard," agreed Bunny. "And it's snowing hard," he
added, as he squirmed into his coat and again looked out of the window.
"Will it snow so hard they can't give the show, Mother?" he asked.
"Oh, I think not," answered Mrs. Brown. "This play isn't going to be in
a tent, you know. It's in the Opera House, and they give shows there
whether it rains or snows. I think you may both count on going to the
show this afternoon."
"Oh, what fun!" cried Bunny.
"Lots of fun!" echoed Sue.
Then out they ran to play amid the swirling, white flakes; and it is hard
to say whether they had more fun in the first snow or in thinking about
the play they were to see in the Opera House that afternoon.
At any rate Bunny Brown and his sister Sue certainly had fun playing
out in the yard of their house and in the street in front. At first