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Having had a great time during a previous stay at Camp Rest-a-While, the Brown family decides to return to the woods for part of the summer, exploring the forest beyond the camp they stayed at before. Their trip brings encounters with new people and animals -- as well as a few close calls for the children.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 décembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776673650
Langue	English

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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE BIG WOODS
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LAURA LEE HOPE

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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods First published in 1917 Epub ISBN 978-1-77667-365-0 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77667-366-7 © 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 - What Daddy Brought Chapter II - The Pail of Milk Chapter III - The Old Man Chapter IV - A Noise at Night Chapter V - Bunny Rolls Down Hill Chapter VI - After the Lost Cow Chapter VII - The Missing Train Chapter VIII - "Where Has Sallie Gone?" Chapter IX - The Search Chapter X - Lost in the Woods Chapter XI - The Hermit Again Chapter XII - Wonderings Chapter XIII - Mr. Brown Makes a Search Chapter XIV - The Ragged Boy Chapter XV - Hidden in the Hay Chapter XVI - The Angry Gobbler Chapter XVII - Sue Decides to Make a Pie Chapter XVIII - Roasting Corn Chapter XIX - Eagle Feather's Horse Chapter XX - Fun in the Attic Chapter XXI - "Where is Sue?" Chapter XXII - The Hermit Comes for Tom Chapter XXIII - Trying to Help Tom Chapter XXIV - The Night Meeting Chapter XXV - The Missing Toys
Chapter I - What Daddy Brought
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"Sue! Sue! Where are you?" called a lady, as she stood in the opening ofa tent which was under the trees in the big woods. "Where are you, Sue?And where is Bunny?"
For a moment no answers came to the call. But presently, from behind aclump of bushes not far from the tent, stepped a little girl. She heldher finger over her lips, just as your teacher does in school when shedoes not want you to say anything. Then the little girl whispered:
"Sh-h-h-h, Mother. I can't come now."
"Then let Bunny come. He can do what I want."
"Bunny can't come, either."
"Why not?" and Mrs. Brown smiled at her little girl, who seemed verymuch in earnest as she stood in front of the bushes, her finger stillacross her lips.
"Bunny can't come, 'cause we're playing soldier and Indian," said Sue."Bunny's been shot by an Indian arrow and I'm his nurse. He's just gotover the fever, same as I did when I had the measles, and he's asleep.And it's awful dangerous to wake anybody up that's just got to sleepafter a fever. That's what our doctor said, I 'member."
"Oh, Bunny is just getting over a fever, is he?" asked Mrs. Brown.
"Of course it's only a make-believe fever, Mother," said the littlegirl. "We're only pretendin' you know"; and she cut her words short,leaving off a "g" here and there, so she could talk faster I suppose.
"Oh, if it's only a make-believe fever it's all right," said MotherBrown with a laugh. "How long do you think Bunny will sleep, Sue?"
"Oh, not very long. Maybe five minutes. 'Cause, you see, when he wakesup he'll be hungry and I've got some pie and cake and some milk for himto eat. Sick folks gets awful hungry when their fever goes away. Andit's real things to eat, too, Mother. And when Bunny got make-believeshot with an Indian arrow he said he wasn't going to play fever more'nfive minutes 'cause he saw what I had for him to eat."
"Oh well, if he's going to be better in five minutes I can wait thatlong," said Mrs. Brown. "Go on and have your fun."
"What do you want Bunny to do—or me?" asked Sue, as she turned to goback behind the bush where she and Bunny were having their game.
"I'll tell you when you've finished playing," said Mrs. Brown with asmile. She sometimes found this a better plan than telling the childrenjust what she wanted when she called them from some of their games. Yousee they were so anxious to find out what it was their mother wantedthat they hurried to finish their fun.
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were at Camp Rest-a-While with theirfather and their mother. They had come from their home in Bellemere tolive for a while in the forest, on the shore of Lake Wanda, where theywere all enjoying the life in the open air.
They had journeyed to the woods in an automobile, carrying two tentswhich were set up under the trees. One tent was used to sleep in and theother for a dining room. There was also a place to cook.
With the Brown family was Uncle Tad, who was really Mr. Brown's uncle.But the jolly old soldier was as much an uncle to Bunny and Sue as hewas to their father. Bunker Blue, a boy, had also come to CampRest-a-While with the Brown family, but after having many adventureswith them, he had gone back to Bellemere, where Mr. Brown had a fish anda boat business. With him went Tom Vine, a boy whom the Browns had metafter coming to camp.
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue liked it in the big woods that stretchedout all about their camp. They played many games under the trees and inthe tents, and had great fun. Mrs. Brown liked it so much that when thetime when they had planned to go home came, she said to her husband:
"Oh, let's stay a little longer. I like it so much and the children areso happy. Let's stay!"
And so they stayed. And they were still camped on the edge of the bigwoods that morning when Mrs. Brown called Bunny and Sue to do somethingfor her.
After telling her mother about the pretend-fever which Bunny had, Suewent back to where her brother was lying on a blanket under the bushes.She made-believe feel his pulse, as she had seen the doctor do when onceBunny had been really ill, and then the little girl put her hand onBunny's cheek.
"Say! what you doin' that for?" he asked.
"I was seeing how hot you were," answered Sue. "I guess your fever'smost gone, isn't it, Bunny?" she asked.
"Is it time to eat?" he asked quickly.
"Yes, I think it is. And I think mother has a surprise for us, too."
"Then my fever's all gone!" exclaimed Bunny. "I'm all better, and I caneat. Then we'll see what mother has."
Never did an ill person get well so quickly as did Bunny Brown justthen. He sat up, threw to one side a blanket Sue had spread over him,and called:
"Where's the pie and cake?"
"Here they are," Sue answered, as she took them from a little box underthe bushes.
"And where's the milk?" asked Bunny. "Fevers always make folks thirsty,you know. I'm awful thirsty!"
"Here's the milk," said Sue. "I didn't ask mother if I could take it,but I'm sure she won't care."
"No, I guess not," said Bunny, taking a long drink which Sue poured outfor him from a pitcher into a glass.
Then Bunny and his sister ate the pie and the cake which their motherhad given them that morning when they said they wanted to have a littlepicnic in the woods. Instead Bunny and Sue had played Indian andsoldier, as they often did. First Bunny was a white soldier, and then anIndian, and at last he made believe he was shot so he could be ill. Suewas very fond of playing nurse, and she liked to cover Bunny up, feelhis pulse and feed him bread pills rolled in sugar. Bunny liked thesepills, too.
"Well, now we've got everything eaten up," said Bunny, as he gathered upthe last crumbs of the pie his mother had baked in the oil stove whichthey had brought to camp. "Let's go and see what the surprise is."
"I'm not so sure it is a surprise," returned Sue slowly. "Motherdidn't say so. She just said she wouldn't tell us until you got allmake-believe well again. So I suppose it's a surprise. Don't you thinkso, too?"
"I guess I do," answered Bunny. "But come on, we'll soon find out."
As the children came out from under the bush where they had beenplaying, there was a crashing in the brush and Sue cried:
"Oh, maybe that's some more of those Indians."
"Pooh! We're not playing Indians now ," said Bunny. "That game's allover. I guess it's Splash."
"Oh, that's nice!" cried Sue. "I was wondering where he'd gone."
A big, happy-looking and friendly dog came bursting through the bushes.He wagged his tail, and his big red tongue dangled out of his mouth, forit was a warm day.
"Oh, Splash; you came just too late!" cried Sue. "We've eaten upeverything!"
"All except the crumbs," said Bunny.
Splash saw the crumbs almost as soon as Bunny spoke, and with his redtongue the dog licked them up from the top of the box which the childrenhad used for a table under the bushes.
"Come on," called Bunny after a bit. "Let's go and find out what motherwants. Maybe she's baked some cookies for us."
"Didn't you have enough with the cake, pie and milk?" Sue asked.
"Oh, I could eat more," replied Bunny Brown. In fact, he seemed alwaysto be hungry, his mother said, though she did not let him eat enough tomake himself ill.
"Well, come on," called Sue. "We'll go and see what mother has for us."
Through the woods ran the children, toward the lake and the white tentsgleaming among the green trees. Mr. Brown went to the city twice a week,making the trip in a small automobile he ran himself. Sometimes he wouldstay in the city over night, and Mother Brown and Uncle Tad and thechildren would stay in the tents in the big woods where they were notfar from a farmhouse.
Splash, the happy-go-lucky dog, bounded on ahead of Bunny Brown and hissister Sue. The children followed as fast as they could. Now and thenSplash would stop and look back as though calling:
"Come on! Hurry up and see the surprise!"
"We're coming!" Bunny would call. "What do you s'pose it is?" he wouldask Sue.
"I can't even guess," Sue would answer. "But I know it must be somethingnice, for she smiled when I told her I was your nurse and you had anIndian fever."
"It wasn't an Indian fever," protested Bunny.
"Well, I mean a make-believe Indian fever," said the little girl.
"No, it was a make-believe arrow fever," said Bunny. "I got shot with anIndian arrow