Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Laura Lee Hope
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"Look out!" suddenly cried Bunny. "Here I come!"
And down he did come. Plump! Right on the pile of hay Sue had made for him. And it was a good thing the hay was there, or Bunny might have hurt his legs by his tumble. He did not try to turn a somersault as Ben did, the time he fell. Bunny was glad enough just to fall down straight. "Oh, Bunny! Bunny! Did you hurt yourself?" cried Sue, as she saw her brother sit down in the pile of hay. Bunny did not answer for a minute. He looked all around, as though he did not know exactly what had happened. Then he glanced up at the ladder to which he had clung. "That--that was a big fall," he said slowly. "I--I'm glad the hay was there, Sue. I'm glad you put it under me." "So'm I glad," declared Sue. "I guess you won't want to be in a circus, will you, Bunny?" "Sure I will. Men fall in circuses, only they fall in nets. But hay is better than a net, 'cept that it tickles you," and Bunny took from his neck some pieces of dried grass that made him wiggle, and "squiggle," as Sue called it. "Hello! What happened here?" asked a voice, and the children looked up to see, standing in the door of the barn, Grandpa Brown. "What happened?" asked the farmer. "Did you fall, Bunny?" I think he must have guessed that, from seeing the way Bunny was sitting |
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