Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While
ed Bunny Brown, as, with Sue and Uncle Tad, he and his mothe
get there about n
le Tad. "I suppose you children
id Sue, "I wish I ha
!" put i
s. Brown said. "We did have an early bre
er as soon as we get to ca
ire. When I was a soldier, in the army, down South, we used to build ca
e good, Uncle
e had roast ears of corn, too. They
Bunny and Sue. In the basket were some cakes, sandwiches and a few of the jam and jelly tarts that Aunt Lu used to make. Only
ittle lunch, and enjoyed it very much. Uncle Tad took some too,
t like a tart," murmured Sue, after a bit,
I don't see how we can pass them any. There is too much in the auto, or I could hand
uld pass them a t
sked his
uto, and lower the lunch baske
g!" cried his mother. "The idea of climbing onto
ouldn't do that, for fear I'd be jiggled off. I meant to
we stop, then one of you can get down, and run u
ater, the autom
own to her husband, who was up on t
uch as horses do, or as you do, when you get warm. Of course the automobile does not exactly drink the water. But some
pring beside the road, Bunny and Sue got out and took their father and
te the good things Sue handed him. "I'm glad
from the spring. There was half a brown cocoanut shell for a di
s and tarts, they started off once more, rumbl
t there," said Sue. "I want
d there'll be work enough for all of us. We'll have
ime at the side of the car, sometimes behind it, and, once in a whil
mobile, and walked along so slowly, with
be tired! Let's give
. Call him
had pretended to divide him down the middle, so each one might have part of the
et that was to be spread over the board floor of the big tent, and went to sleep. But fir
ill now, and when it reached th
sked Mother Brown. "Does t
wered daddy. "Something
ing is broken!"
s an automobile just ahead of us that seems to be
what the matter was. I don't really believe Splash cared what had happened, but he al
and the children saw, just ahead, a small automobile, off to one side of the road. The wheels were away down in the s
own. There were two ladies out on the road
o pass a hay wagon, but I did not think the mud was so soft down here, or
le here. I'll go on ahead, keeping to the road, and I'll tie a rope to you
hankful to you
wo ladies, whose shoes were all muddy from having
he one stuck in the mud. Then when the big auto-moving van, in which the Browns were going t
me I get behind a hay wagon I'll wait until I have room to turn out, without getting into a mud hole. I
l car, when my auto is such a large one." Mr.
off with the two women, and, a little lat
sight of a big lake, which they could see th
is that?" ask
mp," said Mr. Brown. "We'll turn in toward it
ve dinner first!"
ry again?" as
make them hungry," said Uncle Tad. "Well,
ular giants!" laughed Mrs. Brown, "
at led to the lake. And when the children and Mrs. Brown had a good view of the l
e hills, and little mountains, with many trees on them
place," cried Mother
like it," sa
, too," ec
I," add
l be night almost before you know it here. You see the hills are so h
anything," said Mother Brown. "Jus
rying to think what to call it, but you've done it for me. Th
lking about?" asked M
of a good name for it. 'Rest-a-While,' will be the very thing. That's just what you said a moment ago you kn
That's what we'll call it then, though I didn't know I was naming a camp.
unny and Sue, cla
he camp
ne of the boxes, in which the bed clothes were packed, to ea
to put up the tents
re is a good place for our boat, when we get it. It is nice and dry here, and we can se
ouses were unrolled, and spread out on the ground. Then Daddy Brown, with Bunker Blue and Uncle Tad to help, put up the tent poles, and spread the
them all to sleep in, Bunny, Daddy Brown, Uncle Tad and Bunker Blue in one
ping, heard Splash give a sudden bark. Then the dog jumped into the lake, and the children, looking, saw a great commotion going on in
t our dog!" cried Sue, and, dropping the tent rope, of