Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South , livre ebook

The Floating Press - Lee Hope Laura

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

104 pages

English

Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

A propos
Informations
Extrait

Description

Young Bunny Brown and his little sister Sue love to make snowmen, throw snowballs and ride sleds, but when the chance arises to escape the winter weather and explore the South, the Brown children are more than enthusiastic. They visit Georgia and Florida and learn all they can about the uniquely charming Land of Dixie.

Sujets

Children's

Informations

Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 février 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776677139
Langue	English

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,0064€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

Extrait

BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE SUNNY SOUTH
* * *
LAURA LEE HOPE

*
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South First published in 1921 Epub ISBN 978-1-77667-713-9 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77667-714-6 © 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
*
Chapter I - The Snow Man Chapter II - Bunny's Trick Chapter III - Orange Blossoms Chapter IV - A Runaway Chapter V - Out of a Dustpan Chapter VI - Off for Georgia Chapter VII - The Plantation Chapter VIII - Among the Cotton Pickers Chapter IX - Gathering Peanuts Chapter X - On to Florida Chapter XI - The Poor Cat Chapter XII - A Strange Ride Chapter XIII - Nutty, the Tramp Chapter XIV - A Queer Picnic Chapter XV - Left Alone Chapter XVI - The Jolly Switchman Chapter XVII - A Worried Mother Chapter XVIII - The Trick Dog Chapter XIX - A Happy Reunion Chapter XX - At Orange Beach Chapter XXI - Golden Apples Chapter XXII - The Raft Chapter XXIII - On the Island Chapter XXIV - The Alligators Chapter XXV - Mr. Bunn
Chapter I - The Snow Man
*
"Oh, Bunny! what you making such a big nose for?"
"So I can hit it easier, Sue, when I peg snowballs at it."
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were in the backyard of their home,making a big man of snow. There had been quite a storm the day before,and many white flakes had fallen. As soon as the storm stopped and theweather grew warm enough, Mrs. Brown let Bunny and Sue go out to play.And of course one of the first things they did, after running about inthe clean white snow, making "tracks," was to start a snow man.
Bunny was working away at the face of the white chap when Sue asked himabout the big nose he was making.
"What'd you say you were going to do, Bunny?" asked Sue, who was diggingaway in the snow about where the man's legs would be when he wasfinished.
"I said—" replied her brother, as he pressed some snow in hisred-mittened hand, getting ready to plaster it on the man's funnyface—"I said I was making his nose big so I could hit it easier with asnowball."
"Oh, Bunny!" cried Sue, "are you going to throw snowballs at our nicesnow man?"
"Of course!" replied Bunny. "That's what we're making him for! I'm goingto put a hat on him, too. Course a hat's easier to hit than a nose,'specially a tall hat like the one I'm going to make. You can throw atthe hat if you want to and I'll throw at the nose."
"Oh, Bunny!" exclaimed Sue, and from her voice you might have thoughtBunny had said he was going to throw a snowball at Wango, the pet monkeyof Mr. Jed Winkler, an animal of which Bunny Brown and his sister Suewere very fond. "Bunny, don't hurt him!"
"Pooh! You don't s'pose a snow man can feel, do you?" asked Bunny,turning to look at his sister. He had just begun to understand why itwas that Sue did not want him to throw snowballs at the big white fellowwhen he was finished.
"Well, maybe he can't feel," said Sue, for she was really too old tohave such a little child's belief. At least she felt she was too old toconfess to such a feeling. "But what's the fun of making a nice snow manand then hitting him all over with snowballs? I'm not going to throw athis tall hat, even if you make one. Why can't you throw balls atsomething else, Bunny, like a tree or a telegraph pole?"
"'Cause I can peg at them any time," Bunny answered, with a laugh. "It'smore fun to throw snowballs at a snow man and make believe he's real. Hecan't chase you then."
"Well, I'm not going to throw anything at our nice snow man," decidedSue, digging away with her little shovel to carve out the legs.
"You don't have to," said Bunny, fairly enough. "I'll do it all, Sue."
"Well," said his sister, with a shake of her head, "you can throw atyour part of the snow man, if you like, but you can't throw at my part!"
"Which—which is your part?" asked Bunny, and he spoke as though greatlysurprised.
"The legs," answered Sue. "I wish you wouldn't throw any snowballs atthe legs, Bunny Brown."
"All right, I won't," he promised kindly. For Bunny was a year olderthan his sister, and, at most times, was kind and good to her.
"You can throw at your own part as much as you like," went on Sue, "butI'm not going to have my part spoiled."
"All right," her brother agreed again. "I'll throw at his nose and highhat—after I make it—and I won't touch his legs."
This seemed to satisfy Sue, and for some time the children played in theyard, where the big snow man was being made. He was as large as Sue andBunny could build him. First they had rolled a snowball around the yard,and, as the snow was soft and packed well, the ball grew larger andlarger.
Then, when it was about the size Bunny thought was right, it was left atthe place where the man was to stand.
"Now we have to roll another ball," Bunny had said.
"What for?" asked Sue, who, though she had often seen snow men, hadperhaps forgotten just how they were made.
"This second ball is for his stomach," Bunny said.
"What good is a stomach?" asked Sue. "He can't eat."
"He could maybe eat icicles if he wanted to," Bunny had answered."Anyhow, the second snowball has to go on top of the bottom one and makethe body. Then you cut legs out of the bottom snowball. You can cut thelegs, 'cause I'm taller 'n you and I can reach up and make the face."
Sue was digging away with her little shovel at the bottom snowball tomake the man's legs, and Bunny was just finishing the big nose when,suddenly, a snowball came sailing into the Brown yard and fell with athud between Bunny and his sister.
They both started, and Bunny cried:
"Did you throw that, Sue? If you did you mustn't, for 'tisn't time tostart throwing yet!"
"Ha! Ha!" laughed a voice around the corner of the Brown home, and downthe path came running Charlie Star, one of Bunny's playmates, followedby Helen Newton, a little girl with whom Sue was very fond of playing.It was Charlie who had laughed.
"I threw the snowball," he said. "But I only did it to make you jump. Iwasn't trying to hit you, Bunny and Sue."
"All right," replied Bunny. "Want to help make the snow man?"
"Sure!" answered Charlie.
"Oh, what fun!" added Helen. "May I help?"
"You may help me make the legs," replied Sue. "Bunny says he's going tothrow snowballs at his part—that's the head," she explained.
"That'll be fun!" decided Charlie Star. "Come on, let's hurry up and getit finished and then we'll see who's the best shot."
"I've got to get a hat made first," Bunny stated. "It'll be a lot morefun pegging at a tall hat."
"If you could get a real one—one of the shiny black kind—it would bedandy," said Charlie.
"Well, I can make one just as good of snow," Bunny said. "Come on,Charlie!"
Together the four children played around the snow man, who was slowlycoming to look more and more like himself.
"Oh, isn't he a big fellow!" cried Helen, walking off a little way toget a better view.
"Wait till I make his hat," suggested Bunny. "Then he'll look bigger,and we can hit him easier, Charlie."
"Sure, Bunny!"
"All but his legs!" cried Sue. "You mustn't hit his legs, Bunny Brown.They're my part."
"No, we won't hit the legs," agreed Bunny. "Charlie, you look for somepieces of coal for the eyes. I'm going to roll another snowball to makethe tall hat."
Bunny walked over toward the side of his house to find some snow thathad not been trampled on, so he would have a good place to start to rollthe ball that could be cut into the shape of a tall hat. Sue and Helenhad about finished work on the snow man's legs, and Charlie had fittedin two chunks of black coal for eyes.
"Shall I put some of the red paper on for ears?" asked Charlie, as hewas about to make the mouth.
"Snow men don't have red ears!" laughed Helen.
"My ears get red when they're cold," said Sue.
"We'll make the ears out of snow," called Bunny, who was rolling thesnowball near the house. "I forgot about them. But I guess we don't need'em, anyhow."
All of a sudden, as Bunny was bending over to give the hat snowball afinal roll, which would make it about the right size, a queer noisesounded. It seemed to come from the roof of the Brown house.
Charlie, Sue, and Helen looked up. They saw, sliding down the slopingroof of the house, a big mass of snow, like a great drift. It was justabove Bunny's head, and the other children could see that it would slideright down on top of him.
"Look out, Bunny!" screamed Sue.
Her brother glanced up from the ball he was rolling.
"Look out for the slide from the roof!" shouted Charlie.
Bunny started to run, but it was too late. In another second down camethe big mass of snow with a rush, covering Bunny Brown from sight!
Chapter II - Bunny's Trick
*
For a moment after the rush and fall of the snow from the roof, the massof white flakes coming down with a swish and a thud, there was silence.Sue, Helen, and Charlie were so frightened and surprised that they didnot know what to do. Then, after two or three seconds, Sue seemed tofind her voice, and she exclaimed:
"Where's Bunny?"
"He—he's gone!" gasped Helen.
But Charlie understood.
"Bunny's covered up under that snow!" he cried. "We've got to dig himout. You'd better run in and tell your mother, Sue!"
This was something Sue understood. Mother was the one to tell in timesof trouble, especially when daddy wasn't there.
"Oh, Mother! Mother!" cried Sue, running toward the house, "Bunny isunder the snow—a big pile of it!"
"And we must dig him out!" screamed Helen, remembering what Charlie hadsaid.
C