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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods

Chapter 4 A NOISE AT NIGHT

Word Count: 2119    |    Released on: 04/12/2017

should go with the old man. They remembered what their mother had

for supper, and none with which his mother could make the pudding he and his sister liked

" urged t

ll milk?"

give such a lot of milk, there is more than I use. I sell what I ca

other gave us some extra pennies when we went for milk to the farmho

the old man, "but it wouldn't in the city. However,

umpled horn?" asked Sue eager

e isn't the one that jumped over the

d a chance to whisper to his sister as they walked through the w

be kind, but he's kin

bit," an

nd in hand, following, and the bushes clinked

them Bunny and his sister saw a log cabin. Near it was a shed, and as

e crumpled-horn

a pail down in the spring, so it will be cool. Let me take your pail and I'll

ent to look at the cow. The door of the shed was i

e cow as she stu

her horns is crum

the moon," suggested Sue, who remembered

or three minutes, the cow, one of whose horns was twisted, or crumpl

y when they were kept in a stable, so they were

agged man with their pail full of milk. "I am glad you like my cow," he said. "She is a good

lk," explained Bunny car

and you can't get any at the farmhouse," went o

t, sir,"

live?" asked t

t-a-While,"

who live in the tents. I

the city," said Bunny Brown. "It runs on a track with batte

as real lights for eyes and they burn brigh

at when I was a boy. And so your train runs by an electrical battery, doe

Daddy said I must be car

"I have a touch of that myself now and then, but I haven't any battery. But now you'd better run along with

hank you,"

to you for letting us ha

ch any more. I should thank you as a store keeper thanks his customers. And I'll say 'come a

down again," said Bunny; "n

ight," ag

ck at camp again, just as Uncle Tad w

g, children?" asked M

a squirrel,"

wn and chased it-chased the

drank up the mil

more at the farmhouse,"

cow with the crumpled horn though she didn't jump over the moon-

man?" asked Mr. Brown quickl

nd Mrs. Brown looked at one a

y and Sue. They might get lost, or you might, and there would be a dreadful time until we found you again. After this don't

electric train a littl

play with m

so," answere

can play with it outside, near the campfire. But at night w

pulled by a little locomotive made of steel and tin. Inside was a tiny electric motor, which was worked

ve!" cried Bunny, as he had heard the

e. "I want to get on the train with my T

ou mean; don't y

answered Sue. "I couldn'

ddy bear coul

ny. "Then we could give h

t along three cars it could get on the train very nicely. It was even t

motor of his engine. At first the train would not start, for the bear was a bit heavy for it, but when Bunny gave the engine a little

op the train I Here is

u stop a train," objected Bun

you stop a tra

one bell and the engineer

stopped trolley

rains too, 'specially as

Ding!" calle

current, and the train stopped. Sue took off the Ted

bear was visiting in Sue's Aunt Lu's city home and kept winking its electric-light eyes

wo hungry children hurried into the dining tent w

electric train go?"

's the be

is just love

. Brown. "Better bring in the tracks and

ised, "after I've pl

rried the batteries and other parts of the toy railroad in

e camp from the city. Bunny talked of nothing but his railroad, planning fun for the morrow, while Sue said s

own, when it was nearly nine o'clock. "Go to be

prayers they were asleep, one to dream he was a conductor on a big electric train, while the other dream

akened by feeling the tent, on the side nearest to which they slept, being pushe

t of a lantern that burned dimly beyond the curtains behind

he, too, saw the tent sway. "It's an elephant

ugh to clasp each other by the hand, the two children burst

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