Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus

splash into the well, that, for a moment, he did not know what to do or say. He j

ghed Sue again

to!" pleaded Bu

ck again!" went on Sue. "O

he can swim up

swim up when there isn't any water 'cept

oll she could climb up

sn't a circus d

I could climb down the rope

"If you do you'll fall in and be drowned. Don't do

n see your doll down there, Sue. She's floating on to

o!" Bunny cried, after a

ue wanted

e'll get your doll up wit

rake?" c

ll got loose from the rope, and fell into the water. He fished the buc

w the iron teeth of a rake were sharp, for once she had stepped on a r

in the string around the doll, and pull

Sue. "That wo

ll grandpa," urge

, the two children ran toward the house. They saw thei

dpa, she

et her out

ng-handled ra

he did nothing except stand still and loo

appened? Who fell down the wel

standing and looking at him, Grandpa Brown

in the wel

ue. "Bunny let the string sl

help it. But you can get her out with the rake;

answered. "I'll try anyhow. And, after this

," promi

e rake, which he tied to a long clothes-line pole. In a few minutes he was ready to go to the well

your doll,

he's drowne

is still fast to the doll. I'll wind the string around the end of

led rake. Around the teeth was tangled the end of the string. Carefu

p, Grandpa?" ask

"There is something on the end of the

then the children kn

I hope my doll hasn't t

string. Water ran from the round hole in the doll's back-the hole that was a sort of wh

the well again. When you want to give your doll a bath, Sue, dangle her in the brook, where it

e water leaked in through that hol

he breathes. But I'll only wash her in a b

it on the shady back porch. Mother Brown told them, just as their gr

dinner time. And then they had a little sleep in

saw her brother looking over at her from his hammock. Sue always wanted to be doi

nny. "Maybe Bunker Blue, or Ben, is out t

g to have their show in a few weeks, they saw neither of the

ith a big pot of green paint,

to the man, who was working in t

ered Henry. "How are

ow is yo

, f

reen paint on the wheel

I, Henry? I mean you wouldn

You'd get it all over your c

turned Bunny with a sigh. "But

smile. "I know. But you'd bette

ter Sue to watch Henry paint, and they stood there f

e said, putting the brush in the pot of gre

promised B

e the barn, ther

-a-a

at, Bunny?

little calves. W

were in little pens, by themselves, near the mother cows, and the children coul

nce Bunn

know what

" she

ith the green paint, and we'll

bra?" Sue wa

y have 'em in all circuses

have green st

we have, so we'll use that. A green st

t Henry told us not

m the wheelbarrow, and I am. I won't go near it. But

'll hold the paint-pot, and

he pot of paint. Henry had not come back. Leaning over the edge of the calf

e little animal, and t