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Little Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were playing at home one day when a mysterious package arrived. They find out it's their grandfather's tent -- and that's only part of the surprise. When Mr. Brown tells the children that the family is going to spend the summer camping, they can hardly contain their excitement.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 décembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776673711
Langue	English

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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT CAMP REST-A-WHILE
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LAURA LEE HOPE

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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While First published in 1916 Epub ISBN 978-1-77667-371-1 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77667-372-8 © 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 - Grandpa's Tent Chapter II - A Grand Surprise Chapter III - Bunny and Sue Sleep Out Chapter IV - Splash Comes, Too Chapter V - Off to Camp Chapter VI - Putting up the Tents Chapter VII - A Big Black Bear Chapter VIII - The Ragged Boy Chapter IX - Tom Hears a Noise Chapter X - Out in the Boat Chapter XI - Tom Sees a Man Chapter XII - The Cross Man Chapter XIII - A Bad Storm Chapter XIV - Tom is Gone Chapter XV - Looking for Tom Chapter XVI - "Who Took the Pie?" Chapter XVII - A Noise at Night Chapter XVIII - Splash Acts Queerly Chapter XIX - In the Smoke-House Chapter XX - In Bunny's Trap Chapter XXI - Bunker Goes Ashore Chapter XXII - In the Woods Chapter XXIII - In the Cave Chapter XXIV - "Who is There?" Chapter XXV - Back in Camp
Chapter I - Grandpa's Tent
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"Bunny! Bunny Brown! There's a wagon stoppin' in front of our house!"
"Is there? What kind of a wagon is it, Sue?"
The little girl, who had called to her brother about the wagon, stoodwith her nose pressed flat against the glass of the window, looking outto where the rain was beating down on the green grass of the front yard.Bunny Brown, who had been playing with a tin locomotive that ran on atiny tin track, put his toy back in its box.
"What kind of a wagon is it Sue?" he asked his sister again.
"It isn't a grocery wagon," Sue answered slowly. "Not a grocery wagon,like the one we rode in once, when we gave all those things to Old MissHollyhock."
"Has it got any letters on it?" Bunny wanted to know. He was on his wayto the window now, having taken up the toy railroad track, with which hewas tired playing.
"Yes, it's got a E on it," Sue said, "and next comes the funny letter,Bunny, that looks like when you cross your legs or fingers."
"That's a X," said Bunny. He knew his letters better than did Sue, forBunny could even read a little. "What's the next letter, Sue?"
Bunny could have run to the window himself, and looked out, but hewanted to pick up all the things with which he had been playing. Hismother had always made him do this—put away his toys when he wasthrough.
"What's the next letter, Sue?" Bunny Brown asked.
Sue was not quite sure of it. She put her little head to one side so shemight see better. Just then a man jumped off the seat, and splashedthrough a muddy puddle as he walked around to the end of the wagon.
"Oh, Bunny!" Sue cried. "The man's going to bring something here, Iguess. He's taking out a big bundle."
"Maybe it's a wagon from the store," said Bunny. And, as he looked outthrough the window glass, pressing his nose flat against it, as hissister Sue had done, he spelled out the word:
EXPRESS
"That's an express wagon, Sue," said Bunny.
"What's express?" Sue wanted to know.
"That means when you're in a hurry," Bunny said. "You know, when we'replaying train, sometimes I'm an express train, and I go awful fast."
"Yes, I 'member that," said Sue. "Once, when we hitched our dog, Splash,up to our express wagon, he went so fast he spilled me out."
"Well, that's express," Bunny went on. "When you went out of the wagonso fast you were an express."
"I don't like express, then," said Sue. "I like to go slower. But thatcan't be an express wagon, then, Bunny."
"Why not?"
"'Cause that's not goin' fast. It's jest standin' still."
"Oh, well, when it does go, it goes fast. That's an express wagon, allright. Somebody's sent us something by express. Oh, Sue, I wonder whatit is?"
Sue shook her head. She did not know, and she could not guess. She waswatching the man out in the rain—the expressman who was trying to getsomething out of the back of his wagon. It was a big bundle, that wassure, because Bunny and Sue could see the end of it.
"I wonder if it's a present for us?" Sue asked.
"It can't be a present," answered Bunny. "It isn't Christmas. Don't youremember, Sue, we had Christmas at Aunt Lu's city home."
"So we did, Bunny. But it's something , anyhow."
That was certain, for now the man was pulling a very large bundle out ofhis wagon. It was so large that he could not carry it all alone, and hecalled for Sam, the stable man, to come and help him. With the help ofSam, the expressman carried the package back into the barn.
"Oh, I wonder what it is?" said Sue.
"We'll go and ask mother," suggested Bunny. "She'll know."
Together, the children fairly ran upstairs to their mother's sittingroom, where she was sewing.
"Oh, Mother!" cried Sue. "There's a fast wagon out in front—a fastwagon and—"
"A fast wagon, Sue? What do you mean? Is it stuck fast in the mud?" Mrs.Brown asked.
"No, she means an express wagon," said Bunny, with a laugh. "I told herexpress was fast, Mother."
"Oh, I see," and Mrs. Brown smiled.
"But the express wagon did stop," went on the little boy. "It stoppedhere, and Sam and the man took out a big bundle. It's up in our barn.What is it, Mother?"
"I don't know, Bunny. Something your father sent for, perhaps. He maytell us what it is when he comes."
"May we go out and look at it?" Sue asked.
"No, dear, not in this rain. Can't you wait until daddy comes home?"
"Yes, but I—I don't want to, Mother."
"Oh, well, we have to do many things in this world that we don't wantto. Now go and play with your dolls, or something. I think daddy will behome early to-night, on account of the storm. Then he'll tell you what'sin the bundle."
"Does Sam know?" asked Bunny, as he watched the express wagon driveaway.
"Perhaps he does," answered Mrs. Brown.
"Then we can ask him!" exclaimed Sue. "Come on, Bunny!"
"No, dears, you mustn't go out to the barn in this rain. You'd get allwet."
"I could put on my rubber coat," suggested Bunny.
"And so could I—and my rubber boots," said Sue.
Both children seemed to want very much to know what was in the expresspackage. But when Mrs. Brown said they could not go out she meant it,and the more Bunny Brown and his sister Sue teased, the oftener Mrs.Brown shook her head.
"No, you can't go out and open that bundle," she said. "And if you teasemuch more daddy won't even tell you what's in it when he comes home. Begood children now."
Bunny and Sue did not often tease this way, for they were good children.But this day was an unpleasant, rainy one. They could not go out to havefun, because of the rain, and they had played with all their toys,getting tired of them, one after another.
"Mother, if we can't go out to the barn, could we have our dog, Splash,in here to play with us?" asked Bunny, after a while. "We could hitchhim to a chair, and make believe it was an express wagon."
"Oh, yes!" cried Sue. "And you could be the driver, Bunny, and you couldleave a package at my house—make believe, you know—and then I wouldn'tknow what was in it, and I could guess, and you could guess. We couldplay a guessing game; will you, Bunny?"
"Yes, I'll play that. May we have Splash in, Mother?"
"No, dear."
"Oh, why not?"
"Because I just saw Splash splashing through a puddle of muddy water. Ifhe came in now he'd get you all dirty and he would spoil my carpet."
"But what can we do, Mother?" Sue asked, and her voice sounded almostas if she were going to cry.
"We want to do something ," added Bunny.
"Oh, dear!" sighed Mrs. Brown, yet she could not help smiling. Rainydays were hard when two children had to stay in the house all the while.
"We can play 'spress wagon without Splash!" exclaimed Sue, for she was agood little girl, and did not want to make her mother worry.
"All right," agreed Bunny. "We'll just make believe we have Splash withus to pull the pretend wagon."
He and Sue often played pretend, and make-believe, games, and they hadmuch fun this way. Now they turned one chair on the side, and putanother in front. The turned-over chair was to be the wagon, and theother chair, standing on its four legs, was the horse. Bunny got somestring for reins, and the stick the washerwoman used to punch theclothes down in the boiler made a good whip, when another piece ofstring was tied on the end of that.
"Giddap!" cried Bunny, sitting on a stool behind the chair-horse."Giddap! This is an express wagon, and we've got to hurry."
"You must leave a package for me!" cried Sue. "This is my house, over onthe couch," and she curled up in a lump. "And this is my little girl,"she went on, pointing to one of her dolls, which she had taken into her"house" with her. "If I'm asleep—make-believe, you know," said Sue toBunny, "you tell my little girl to wake me up."
"Pooh! I can't talk to a doll!" cried Bunny.
"Yes, you can, too," said his sister. "Just pretend , you know."
"Well, even if I do, how can your doll talk to you, and wake you up?"
"Oh, Bunny! I'm only going to be make-believe asleep, and of course adoll, who can pretend to talk, can make-believe wake me up as easy asanything, when I'm only make-believe asleep."
"Oh, all right, if it's only make-believe," agreed Bunny. "Giddap,Splash! I've named the make-believe chair-horse the same as our dog," heexplained to Sue.
Then the game began, and the children played nicely for some time,giving Mrs. Brown a chance to finish her sewing. Bunny and Sue tookturns driving the "express wagon," and they had left many pretendbundle