Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show

Laura Lee Hope

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Title: Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show
Author: Laura Lee Hope
Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers
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BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE
GIVING A SHOW
BY
LAURA LEE HOPE
AUTHOR OF
THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES, THE BOBBSEY
TWINS SERIES, THE OUTDOOR GIRLS
SERIES, ETC.
Illustrated
NEW YORKGROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
BUNNY BEGAN TURNING OVER
AND OVER.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Giving a Show. Frontispiece ( Page 222)
BOOKS
By LAURA LEE HOPE
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated.
THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE ON GRANDPA'S
FARM
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE PLAYING CIRCUS
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT AUNT LU'S
CITY HOME
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT CAMP REST-A-
WHILE
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE BIG
WOODS
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE ON AN AUTO
TOUR
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIRSHETLAND PONY
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE GIVING A SHOW
THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES
THE BOBBSEY TWINS
THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY
THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE
THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SCHOOL
THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SNOW LODGE
THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON A HOUSEBOAT
THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOK
THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT HOME
THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY
THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND
THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA
THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN WASHINGTON
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT RAINBOW LAKE
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A MOTOR CAR
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN FLORIDA
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT OCEAN VIEW
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS ON PINE ISLAND
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN WAR SERVICE
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT THE HOSTESS HOUSE
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1919, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Giving a Show
CONTENTS
chapter page
I. "Look at the Skylight!" 1
II. "Let's Give a Show!" 13III. Talking it Over 24
IV. The Climbing Boy 33
V. A Cold Little Singer 45
VI. General Washington 55
VII. "Down on the Farm" 64
VIII. The Scenery 74
IX. Bunny Does a Trick 83
X. Getting Ready 93
XI. The Strange Voice 108
XII. A Surprise 116
XIII. "They're Gone" 124
XIV. Splash Hangs On 131
XV. Tickets for the Show 137
XVI. Upside Downside Bunny 145
XVII. Sue's Queer Slide 154
XVIII. Mr. Treadwell's Wig 161
XIX. Uncle Bill 171
XX. The Dress Rehearsal 181
XXI. "Where is Bunny?" 197
XXII. Act I 206
XXIII. Act II 220
XXIV. Act III 231
XXV. The Final Curtain 239
[Pg 1]
BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE
GIVING A SHOW
CHAPTER I
"LOOK AT THE SKYLIGHT!"
With a joyful laugh, her curls dancing about her head, while her brown eyes
sparkled with fun, a little girl danced through the hall and into the dining room
where her brother was eating a rather late breakfast of buckwheat cakes and
syrup.
"Oh, Bunny, it's doing it! It's come! Oh, won't we have fun!" cried the little girl.
Bunny Brown looked up at his sister Sue, holding a bit of syrup-covered
cake on his fork.
"What's come?" he asked. "Has Aunt Lu come to visit us, or did Wango, the
monkey, come up on our front steps?"
"No, it isn't Mr. Jed Winkler's monkey and Aunt Lu didn't come, but I wish she[Pg 2]had," answered Sue. "But it's come—a lot of it, and I'm so glad! Hurray!"
Bunny Brown put down his fork and looked more carefully at his sister.
"What are you playing?" he asked, thinking perhaps it was some new game.
"I'm not playing anything!" declared Sue. "I'm so glad it's come! Now we can
have some fun! Just look out the window, Bunny Brown!"
"But what has come?" asked the little boy, who was a year older than his
sister Sue. He was a bright chap, with merry blue eyes and they opened wide
now, trying to see what Sue was so excited about.
"What is it?" asked Bunny Brown once more.
"It's snow!" cried Sue. "It's the first snow, and it's soon going to be
Thanksgiving and Christmas and 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
[Pg 3]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
[Pg 4]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.
[Pg 5]"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
[Pg 6]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