Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While | Page 4

yes, I rather think you'll be surprised when you hear about it,"
answered Daddy Brown.
"And is it a secret, too?" Bunny wanted to know.
"Well, you don't know what it is yet; do you?" inquired his father.
Bunny shook his head.
"Well, then," went on Daddy Brown with a smile, "if there is
something nice you don't know, and someone is going to tell you, I
guess that's a surprise; isn't it?"
"Oh, yes!" cried Sue. "And now, Daddy, don't tease us any more. Just
tell us what it is? Will we like it?"
"Can we play with it?" Bunny wanted to know.
Mr. Brown laughed so hard that Sue nearly fell off one knee, and
Bunny off the other.
"What is it, Daddy?" asked the little boy. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, just you--and Sue," said Mr. Brown, still shaking up and down
and sideways with laughter. "You are in a great hurry to have me tell
you the surprise, and yet you keep on asking questions, so I have to
answer them before I tell you."

"You asted the most questions, Bunny," said Sue, shaking her finger at
him.
"No, I didn't. You did!"
"Well, we'll each just ask one question," went on Sue, "and then you
can tell us, Daddy. I want to try and guess what it is--I mean what the
tent is for. Shall we each take one guess, Bunny?"
"Yep. You guess first, Sue. What do you say the tent is for?"
Sue thought for half a minute, shutting her brown eyes and wrinkling
up her little nose. She was thinking very hard.
"I--I guess the tent is for a house for our dog Splash," she said, after a
bit. "Is it, Daddy?"
"No," and Mr. Brown shook his head. "It's your turn, Bunny."
Bunny looked up at the ceiling. Then he said:
"I guess grandpa's tent is going to be for us to play in when it rains. Is it,
Daddy?"
"Well, that's pretty nearly right," Mr. Brown answered. "And now sit
quiet and I'll tell you the surprise."
But before I let Mr. Brown tell the children the secret, I just want to say
a few words to the boys and girls who are reading this as their first
book of the Bunny and Sue series. There are four other books that come
ahead of this, and I'll tell you their names so you may read them, and
find out all about Bunny and Sue.
Of course those of you who have read the first, and all the other books
in the series, do not need to stop to read this. You have already been
introduced to the Brown children. But to those who have not, I would
say that Bunny Brown and his sister Sue lived with their father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown, in the town of Bellemere, which
was on Sandport Bay, near the ocean.

Mr. Brown was in the boat business--that is, he hired out boats to
fishermen and others who wanted to go on the ocean or bay, sailing,
rowing or in motor boats. Mr. Brown had men to help him, and also
several big boys, almost as large as men. One of these last was Bunker
Blue, a red-haired, good-natured lad, who was very fond of the two
children.
In the first book of the series, named "Bunny Brown and His Sister
Sue," I told you the story of the little boy and girl, and what fun they
had getting up a Punch and Judy show, and finding Aunt Lu's diamond
ring in the queerest way. In the second book, "Bunny Brown and His
Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm," I told you how they went off to the
country, in a great big moving van automobile, fitted up like a little
house, in which they could eat and sleep.
Bunker Blue went with them to steer the automobile, and they also took
along the children's dog, Splash, who was named that because he once
splashed in the water and pulled out Sue. On Grandpa's farm Bunny
and Sue had lots of fun. They got up a little show, which they held in
the barn.
After the little show had been given, Bunker Blue, and some larger
boys, thought they could get up a sort of circus. They did, holding it in
two tents, a big one and a smaller one. The smaller tent belonged to
Grandpa Brown, when he was in the army. And it was this tent that had
just come by express to the Brown home in Bellemere.
"Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus" is the name of the
third book, and in that you may read all about the show that Bunny and
Sue took part in--how the tents were washed