Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony

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Title: Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony
Author: Laura Lee Hope
Illustrator: Thelma Gooch
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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND PONY
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
AUTHOR OF THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES, THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES, THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES, ETC.
Illustrated by Thelma Gooch
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS

BOOKS BY LAURA LEE HOPE
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12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, per volume, 50 cents, postpaid.
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=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 BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE BIG WOODS BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE ON AN AUTO TOUR BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND PONY
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=THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES=
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 HOUSE BOAT THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOK THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT HOME THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA
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=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 THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN WAR SERVICE
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=GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK=
Copyright, 1918, by GROSSET & DUNLAP
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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony
[Illustration: TOBY WAS RINGING THE BELL.
Frontispiece. (Page 135.)
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony.]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. IN THE ARK 1 II. THE FRIGHTENED PONY 11 III. MR. TALLMAN 24 IV. LOOKING FOR A PONY 32 V. THE SHORT TALLMAN 40 VI. BUNNY, SUE AND TOBY 51 VII. THE FIRST RIDE 61 VIII. SUE'S HANDKERCHIEF 69 IX. TOBY'S NEW TRICK 80 X. TOBY WALKS AWAY 92 XI. OFF TO THE FARM 102 XII. THE WRONG ROAD 111 XIII. TOBY FINDS THE WAY 121 XIV. TOBY'S OTHER TRICK 129 XV. RED CROSS MONEY 139 XVI. IN THE WOODS 148 XVII. THE DARK MAN 159 XVIII. TOBY IS GONE 166 XIX. THE SEARCH 176 XX. IN A STORM 184 XXI. THE GYPSY CAMP 194 XXII. "THERE'S TOBY!" 204 XXIII. PRISONERS 216 XXIV. THE RED-AND-YELLOW BOX 226 XXV. TO THE RESCUE 236

BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND PONY
CHAPTER I
IN THE ARK
"Oh, Bunny! Here comes Bunker Blue!"
"Where is he? I don't see him!"
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue were playing on the shady side porch of their house one morning, when the little girl, looking up from a cracker box which had been made into a bed--where she was putting her doll to sleep--saw a tall boy walking up the path.
"There's Bunker!" went on Sue to her brother, Bunny, at the same time pointing. "Maybe he's come to take us for a ride in one of daddy's fishing boats!"
"Have you, Bunker?" asked Bunny, standing up and brushing some shavings from his little jacket, for he had been using a dull kitchen knife, trying to whittle out a wooden boat from a piece of curtain stick. "Oh, Bunker, have you?"
"Have I what?" asked the tall boy, who worked on the dock where Mr. Brown, the father of Bunny and Sue, carried on a boat and fish business. "Have I what?" Bunker asked again, and he stood still and gazed at the two small children who were anxiously looking at him.
"Have you come to take us for a ride?" asked Bunny.
"In one of daddy's boats?" added Sue, who generally waited for her brother to speak first, since he was a year older than she.
"Not this time, messmates," answered Bunker Blue with a laugh, calling the children the name one sailor sometimes gives to another. "Not this time messmates. I've come up to get the ark."
"Oh, the ark!" cried Bunny. "Did you hear