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For there, on a table in front of Bixby, the hermit, was Bunny's toy engine, and Sue's Teddy bear. But the bear was partly torn apart, and from it ran wires that joined with other wires from Bunny's electric locomotive and batteries. At the other ends of the wires, were round, shiny balls, like those on the ends of curtain rods.
I hope nothing has happened to them!" "Of course nothing has happened!" said Daddy Brown. He sprang out of bed and lighted a light in Bunny's room. As he took one look at the tumbled bed, and saw that two of the blankets were gone, Mr. Brown laughed. "What are you laughing at?" his wife asked him. "I don't see anything very funny to laugh at!"
"Oh, no, Teacher! I wouldn't do such a thing!" Bunny declared very earnestly. "I didn't believe you would," said Miss Bradley, with a kind smile. "I think Sadie must be mistaken. But still, to quiet her and all of you," she added, looking at the pupils, "I will look in Bunny's desk.
Then he pulled hard on Toby's reins and shouted: "No, we didn't drop anything, but here comes the fire engine!" And, surely enough, dashing down the street was the shiny new engine that had lately been bought for Bellemere. "Oh, pull over to one side!" cried Sue, clasping Bunny's arm. "Pull over to one side!" "I I'm trying to!" he answered.
Bunny managed to eat five of the cakes his mother baked, and he might have eaten another only his father called to him to hurry if he wanted to go to search for the missing toy bear. Sue and Bunny went with Mr. Brown off into the big woods after breakfast. As they walked along they looked on either side of the path for a sight of the missing Teddy bear or Bunny's toy train.
Blindfold the children in turn and give each an egg, which is to be pinned on the sheet, and right in "Bunny's" arms, if possible. As the children take their turn, no matter how straight on the way they were started, "Bunny" will be surrounded with eggs, until some child pins the egg in his arms. This child deserves a prize.
Johnny, heedless of the threat, tried again to force open Bunny's stiff mouth, Dotty's beautiful eyes blazed. Without a word she walked off proudly to the kitchen, and came back with a handful of cold ashes, which she freely sifted into Johnny's flaxen hair. Mrs. Parlin saw that it was high time to take her youngest daughter home.
I used to be a horrid little bounder before I met Jake. He simply made me body and soul." Bunny spoke with a simple candour. "P'raps he had good stuff to work on," suggested Toby. Bunny's arm drew her almost imperceptibly. "I don't think he had. My father was a wild Irishman, and my mother well, she's dead too but she wasn't anything to be specially proud of."
At least she found that she could run, so she did, hiding behind her brother. "I'll take care of you," he said bravely. On came the goat. Bunny's heart was beating fast. He raised one hand in which he held a stone. "Look out! I'm going to throw it, you old goat!" cried the little blue- eyed boy. "Whizz!" went the stone toward the goat.
If you will hold your nose in your hand, and talk, you will know just how Bunny's voice sounded. "Oh, it's too funny!" laughed Sadie. "I know it is going to be a lovely show! Your Aunt Lu will be very much surprised." When Bunny practised in the barn he did not wear the lobster claw on his nose, except the first time, to see how it looked.
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