Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus   By: Laura Lee Hope

by

LAURA LEE HOPE

Author of The Bunny Brown Series, The Bobbsey Twins Series, The Outdoor Girls Series, etc.

Illustrated by Florence England Nosworthy

[Illustration: THEN BUNNY AND SUE JUMPED THROUGH HOOPS COVERED WITH PAPER. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus. Frontispiece (P. 117).]

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers

1916

BOOKS

By LAURA LEE HOPE

12mo. Cloth, Illustrated. Price, per volume, 50 cents, postpaid.

THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES

BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE ON GRANDPA'S FARM BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE PLAYING CIRCUS BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT AUNT LU'S CITY HOME BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AT CAMP REST A WHILE

THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES

For Little Men and Women

THE BOBBSEY TWINS THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SCHOOL THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SNOW LODGE THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON A HOUSEBOAT THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOK THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT HOME

THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES

THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT RAINBOW LAKE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A MOTOR CAR THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN FLORIDA THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT OCEAN VIEW THE OUTDOOR GIRLS ON PINE ISLAND

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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I. BUNNY IS UPSIDE DOWN 1 II. LET'S HAVE A CIRCUS! 10 III. THE POOR OLD HEN 21 IV. A STRANGE BOY 30 V. SOMETHING QUEER 40 VI. BEN HALL HELPS 48 VII. BUNNY HAS A FALL 56 VIII. THE DOLL IN THE WELL 65 IX. THE STRIPED CALF 73 X. THE OLD ROOSTER 82 XI. PRACTICE FOR THE CIRCUS 93 XII. THE LITTLE CIRCUS 102 XIII. THE WILD ANIMALS 111 XIV. BUNNY AND SUE GO SAILING 121 XV. SPLASH IS LOST 131 XVI. GETTING THE TENTS 142 XVII. BUNNY AND THE BALLOONS 152 XVIII. THE STORM 163 XIX. HARD WORK 174 XX. THE MISSING MICE 185 XXI. THE BIG CIRCUS 194 XXII. BUNNY'S BRAVE ACT 206 XXIII. BEN DOES A TRICK 215 XXIV. BEN'S SECRET 227 XXV. BACK HOME AGAIN 238

BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE PLAYING CIRCUS

CHAPTER I

BUNNY IS UPSIDE DOWN

"Grandpa, where are you going now?" asked Bunny Brown.

"And what are you going to do?" asked Bunny Brown's sister Sue.

Grandpa Brown, who was walking down the path at the side of the farmhouse, with a basket on his arm, stood and looked at the two children. He smiled at them, and Bunny and Sue smiled back, for they liked Grandpa Brown very much, and he just loved them.

"Are you going after the eggs?" asked Sue.

"That basket is too big for eggs," Bunny observed.

"It wouldn't be not for great, great, big eggs," the little girl said. "Would it, Grandpa?"

"No, Sue. I guess if I were going out to gather ostrich eggs I wouldn't get many of them in this basket. But I'm not going after eggs. Not this time, anyhow."

"Where are you going?" asked Bunny once more.

"What's a a ockstritch?" asked Sue, for that was as near as she could say the funny word.