Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Giving a Show

Lee Hope Laura

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One winter day, Bunny Brown and his little sister Sue have the chance to watch a play in their town's opera house. They're so mesmerized by the experience that they decide to put on a play of their own. Will this mischievous duo be able to pull it off?

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• Children's

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• Publié par: The Floating Press
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781776673674
• Langue: English

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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE GIVING A SHOW
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LAURA LEE HOPE
 
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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Giving a Show First published in 1919 Epub ISBN 978-1-77667-367-4 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77667-368-1 © 2015 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
Contents
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Chapter I - "Look at the Skylight!" Chapter II - "Let's Give a Show!" Chapter III - Talking it Over Chapter IV - The Climbing Boy Chapter V - A Cold Little Singer Chapter VI - General Washington Chapter VII - "Down on the Farm" Chapter VIII - The Scenery Chapter IX - Bunny Does a Trick Chapter X - Getting Ready Chapter XI - The Strange Voice Chapter XII - A Surprise Chapter XIII - "They're Gone" Chapter XIV - Splash Hangs On Chapter XV - Tickets for the Show Chapter XVI - Upside Downside Bunny Chapter XVII - Sue's Queer Slide Chapter XVIII - Mr. Treadwell's Wig Chapter XIX - Uncle Bill Chapter XX - The Dress Rehearsal Chapter XXI - "Where is Bunny?" Chapter XXII - Act I Chapter XXIII - Act II Chapter XXIV - Act III Chapter XXV - The Final Curtain
Chapter I - "Look at the Skylight!"
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With a joyful laugh, her curls dancing about her head, while her browneyes sparkled with fun, a little girl danced through the hall and intothe dining room where her brother was eating a rather late breakfast ofbuckwheat cakes and syrup.
"Oh, Bunny, it's doing it! It's come! Oh, won't we have fun!" cried thelittle girl.
Bunny Brown looked up at his sister Sue, holding a bit of syrup-coveredcake 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 Iwish she had," answered Sue. "But it's come—a lot of it, and I'm soglad! 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 wecan have some fun! Just look out the window, Bunny Brown!"
"But what has come?" asked the little boy, who was a year older than hissister Sue. He was a bright chap, with merry blue eyes and they openedwide 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 beThanksgiving and Christmas and all like that! And we can get out oursleds, 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 seemto have any words left with which to talk to Bunny.
"Oh! Snow!" exclaimed Bunny, and he said; it in such a funny way thatSue laughed.
Just then in came her mother from the kitchen where she had been bakingmore cakes for her little boy.
"Oh, it's you, is it, Sue?" asked Mrs. Brown. "Do you want some morebreakfast?"
"No, thank you, Mother. I had mine. I just came in to tell Bunny it'ssnowing. 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 finishhis breakfast.
"Yes, it really is," answered Mrs. Brown. "I was so busy getting enoughcakes baked for you that I didn't notice the snow much. But, as Suesays, it is coming down quite fast."
"Hurray!" cried Bunny, even as Sue had done. "Do you think there will belots of the snow?"
"Well, it looks as though there might be quite a storm for the firstsnow of the season," replied the mother of Bunny Brown and his sisterSue. "It's a bit early this year, too. It's almost two weeks untilThanksgiving and here it is snowing. I'm afraid we're going to have ahard 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," headded quickly, as he saw his mother look at him in surprise. "But I'mglad 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 withSue, to push aside the curtains and look out at the falling whiteflakes, she said:
"Come back and finish your breakfast, Bunny. I want to clear off thetable."
"I want to see the snow, first," replied the little boy. "Anyhow, Iguess 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 breakfasta little while before, she now ate part of a second one, helping herbrother.
It was Saturday, and, as there was no school, Mrs. Brown had allowedboth children to sleep a little later than usual. Sue had been up first,and, after eating her breakfast and playing around the house, she hadgone to the window to look out and wish that Bunny would get up to playand have fun with her.
Then she had seen the first snow of the season and had run into thedining room to find her brother there eating his late meal.
"May we go out in the snow and play?" asked Bunny, when he had finishedthe last of the brown cakes and the sweet syrup.
"Yes, if you put on your boots and your warm coats. You don't want toget cold, you know, or you can't go to the play in the Opera House thisafternoon."
"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 thatthey can't have the show, like once it rained so hard we couldn't playcircus in the tent Grandpa put up for us in the lot."
"Yes, it did rain hard," agreed Bunny. "And it's snowing hard," headded, 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 ina tent, you know. It's in the Opera House, and they give shows therewhether it rains or snows. I think you may both count on going to theshow 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 ishard to say whether they had more fun in the first snow or in thinkingabout 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 outin the yard of their house and in the street in front. At first therewas not snow enough to do more than make slides on the sidewalk, and thelittle boy and girl did this for a time. They made two long slides, andmen and women coming along smiled to see the brother and sister at play.But these same men and women were careful not to step on the slipperyslides made by Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, for they did not want toslip and fall.
As for Bunny and Sue, they did not mind whether they fell or not. Halfthe time they were tumbling down and the other half getting up again.But they managed to do some sliding, too.
"Come on!" cried Bunny, after a bit. "There's enough now to makesnowballs!"
"Could we make a snow house, too?" asked his sister.
"No, there isn't enough for that. But we can make snowballs and throw'em!"
"Don't throw any at me!" begged Sue. "'Cause if you did, an' the snowwent down my neck, it would melt and I'd get wet an' then I couldn't goto the show an' you'd be sorry!"
This was rather a long sentence for Sue, and she was a bit out of breathwhen she had finished.
"No, I won't throw any snowballs at you," promised Bunny.
"Oh, here come Harry Bentley and Charlie Star!" exclaimed Sue.
"I'll throw snowballs at them!" decided Bunny. "Hi!" he called to two ofhis boy chums. "Let's throw snowballs!"
"We're with you!" answered Charlie.
"I'm not going to play snowball fight," decided Sue. "I see Mary Watsonand Sadie West. I'm going to play with them."
So she trotted off to make little snow dolls with her girl friends,while Bunny, with Charlie and Harry, threw soft snowballs at oneanother. The children were having such fun that it seemed only a fewminutes since breakfast when Mrs. Brown called:
"Bunny! Sue! Come in and get washed for lunch. And you have to getdressed if you're going to the play!"
"Oh, we're going, sure!" exclaimed Bunny. "Are you?" he asked Charlieand Harry.
"Yes," they replied, and when Sue ran toward her house with Bunny shetold her brother that Sadie and Mary were also going to the play thatafternoon in the town Opera House.
"Oh, we'll have a lot of fun!" cried Bunny. "Will it be a funny play?"he asked Uncle Tad, who had promised to take the two children.
"Well, I guess it'll be funny for you two youngsters," was the answer ofthe old soldier. "But I guess it isn't much of a theatrical company thatwould come to Bellemere to give a show so near the beginning of winter.But it will be all right for boys and girls."
"It's a show for the benefit of our Red Cross Chapter," said Mrs. Brown."That's why I asked you to take the children, Uncle Tad. I have to bewith the other ladies of the committee, to help take tickets and lookafter things."
"Oh, I'll look after Bunny and Sue!" exclaimed Uncle Tad. "I'll see thatthey have a good time!"
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were so excited because of the first snowstorm and because of thinking of the play they were to see, that theycould hardly dress. But at last they were ready, and they set off in thefamily aut