Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods
ich they had set down in the road so they could chase the squirrel. Then Bunny, made bold by thinking of what might happen if he and his
he little boy. "Leave our milk alone!" and
ack!" cried Sue. "Don'
brother asked i
e might b
doesn't look as savage as our Splash, and he nev
ith a sort of "wuff!" as if to say, "Well, I've taken all the milk, what are you going to do about it?" aw
e! I'm not afraid of that dog!" th
er. "You are awful brave, Bunny-just as brave as when you
, I keep tellin' yo
" agreed Sue. "But is th
d Bunny turned the pa
gh, "then I guess you weren't brave in
," declared her brother. "If I'd seen him I'd have
all she could think of, now that the pail was
e agreed. "But we can easy
can't,"
r, and if you're afraid of the dog you
't ever leave me alone, to go anywhere when we were on the road or in the big woods. I've got
away. I don't believe he'll come back anyhow. Don't you know how 'fraid dogs are to come back to you when they've done something bad. That time Splash ate the meat Bu
id of the dog, Bunn
are you a
farm lady said. She said this was the last quart of
eed Bunny. "Then what
know,"
something," sai
ny more milk at the camp, and t
Bunny. "I guess we didn't ought to have tooken that fo
aybe we oughtn't.
ing to do or play. Sue was a good thinker. She usually thought first and did things afterward, while Bunny was just the other way. He did something f
think something?" h
king up and d
she said. "Please do
he empty milk pail, and tipping it upside down, as
know any other place around here where we can go, so th
no milk there
do. They wouldn't want us to go off somewhere else without telling them. And
d, "and he does get more milk, we won't set the pail down in
be too dark to see to chase squirrels," said
p, and as they did so they heard a crackling in the b
and she snuggled up close against her brother, thoug
" said Bunny. "Wait until
you do they might jump at you and bite you. Just don't notice him or spe
said Bunny, looking up toward the place
ed in rather ragged clothes. He looked like what the children called a tramp, though since they had arrived at the camp they had come to know that not
brim of his black hat, and though he did not have such a nice face as did
es?" asked the old man, and
ve just been,
our pail that way," went on the old man, for Bunny was
there was any in t
isn't," a
we don't know where to get
ed, for he and Sue always tried to spe
asin' a squirrel,
clared positively. "He put his nose right in the pail and licked up
t any more milk," Sue explained. "An
ke the pudding,"
r!" wai
aid the ragged man. "But if you'll
ering that his mother had told him never to go anyw
k," said the ragged man. "I keep a cow, and I have more milk than I can use or