Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus

e green paint the hired man had left, and stripe a

I'm done," said Bunny Brown to his si

paint both sides o

painted on both sides. Not like we're going to do our dog Splas

be thinking

Bunny of his sister. "Isn't

here the calf was kept, so Sue cou

ike a circus zebra, only of course t

d Sue, "he

now that the paint would not wear off for a long time. Then, too, the cow mother had put her head over from the next stall, where she was tied, and she

stripes Bunny had put on. "I-I guess I'll let you put blue stripes on my h

ly half striped, would look funny. Now I'll see if I

ttle animal he had not yet painted, but

t," Bunny said. "You hand me the pa

you going right

es

'll bi

y only eat milk, and they don't have to chew

. Bunny was careful not to get any on his own suit, or on Sue's dress. That is he was as careful as any small boy could be. But, even then, he did splash s

URNING A CALF IN

s Sister Sue Playi

ready to put some on the other. But the calf did not stand as still with Bunny i

cried. "Baa-a-a-

ld mother

Moo!

did not try to hook Bunny with her horns. She only looked at him with her big, bro

rhaps it thought it had had enough of the green paint. It moved about, from one

. "It looks real nice Bunny. You had better

's too hard. One zebra is enough for our circus. We'll make

me on out, Bunny, 'cause I'm tire

nt to put some stripes on the calf's legs. They

the calf's legs alone. For, no sooner did the little animal feel the ticklin

the calf's feet, the little boy was kicked over. Right over he went, spilling some of the pain

ried Sue. "Oh,

l of straw. And when he did get up he saw that the calf had kicked open the gate

out. Then the old cow pushed very hard on the gate that shut her in.

ed Sue. "Our circus ze

ng the overturned pot of paint behin

here, bossy-c

s, you say that to horses!

to cows?" Bunny

ered Sue. "I know 'cause I heard grandma cal

, did not run any farther. The mother cow put out her red tongue and "kissed" her little calf some more. She did

ebra for our circus. And when I get some blue paint I'

u when she kicked you over,

soft, and I fell on the straw.

t so Henry can finish the w

ut he did not get the chance. For ju

t of green paint," h

riped calf. At first he

ur grandpa's best calves, and he won't

ebra," sa

"it's too bad. I shouldn't have left the paint whe

d not thought they were doing anything

dpa be very sor

ered the hired man, "he'll not like it to

d they had done wrong, and he felt bad. But no one could be angry for very long at Bunny Br

what you are doing often makes as much tr

Grandpa Brown. "But don't paint any more of my farm animals without

l hard to make him striped like a zebra, and we want him in our

uld not come off. The hired man tried soap and water. But th

n paint wear off," said Grandpa Brown. "

promised th

Sue were cleaned of the green paint that had splattered on them, an

The green stripes had dried now, and made the calf look very funny indeed. Some of the other cows and calves s

iped calf, and your dog Splash, in the c

will. I'll go and

er with his sister. He found her on t

to have more make-believe

ed Sue. "W

we ought to h

. Why don't you make a ockstritch, Bunny? An ockstritch what lays b

asked

Just then the old big roos

Bunny," said Sue. "He has nice lon

'll get the clothes line for a lasso, and I'll pretend to be a Wild W

er, who did not in the least guess what was going to