Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus
pond, looking at the old hen, who was fluttering up and down,
d not go, for chickens don't like to get wet you know, paddling up and dow
them out, Bunny. Take off your shoes and stockings and wade in
ground, and began to
egan to
Bunny's laughter. "Don't you want to save the little chicks for the hen?" S
ickens, Sue!" exclaimed
hey aren't? Then
he water. They know how to swim when they're just
wly hatched chickens. But as she watched them she saw they were swimming about, and, as one little baby duck
d it doesn't hurt them to go in the water,
She doesn't know they are ducks and can s
ind Bunny and Sue. They looked around to see th
g in swimming," he went on. "You see, we put ducks' eggs under a
kstritches' eggs?"
n. "I guess a hen could only cover one of those at a time. But
eggs under a hen. And every time, as soon as the little ducks find water, after they are
l the little ducks from chickens. And when they go into the water she thinks, just as you
s over it now
ings all fluffed up. She seemed to know that the little family she had hatched out, even if they were not like any others she
nd whistled (as baby ducks always do) and had a perfectly love
and they came out on dry land, waddling from sid
n is to see them safe on
once more. She clucked over them, and tried to hover them under her
of oil in them. So the little ducks did not need to get dry. They ran about in the sun, quacking in their baby voi
o into the water the old hen mother won't be at all frightened, for she will know
ens were drowning!" laughed Sue
en thought," said Grandpa Brown. "Bu
r a circus," answ
claimed grandp
n't hurt. And he's going to paint his half of our dog Splash, so Splash will look like a tiger,
l Sue could thi
aking off his straw hat, scratched hi
circus; eh? Wel
id Bunny. "That is
thought for
I don't mind. I s'pose it's only
red Bunny. "
n you like, but don't get hurt. Are
. "We're going to have To
ce and Sallie S
. "Well, have a good time. I used to have a train
e do?" Bunny
rs, make believe he was dead, he could
ad him for our ci
dog now, Gran
you can get your dog Splash to do some tricks.
ster Sue. And they really meant what they s
Grandma Brown, as well as father and Mother Brown, said she did not mind if a circus
in the hay," said the l
e to put stripes on your half
guess,"
'll mix you up some starch and water, with a little blui
doesn't have blue stripes, and my ha
of tiger," said Grandma Brown, a
ng children to tell them about the circus. Nearly all the child
rown that night when they were all sitting on
have to come and see you
andma Brown. They all listened, and he
pa. "Maybe it's a tramp. There
k before this one. Perhaps those tramps had gotten out of jail and had come to get more cake. Bunny and Sue sat cl
king to some one. And the a
u want?" as
very hungry. I haven't had any dinner or supper. I'm will
as though the stra
ndma Brown, getting up. "It's just
uld see a boy, not quite as big as Bunker Blue, standing beside grandpa. The boy had on clothes that were dusty, and s
?" asked Gr
oy!" said grandpa. "I guess we'll have to feed