on the little pile of hay.

"Yes, I--I slipped off the ladder," said the little boy. "But I didn't
get hurt."

"'Cause I spread hay under him," said Sue. "I thought of it all by
myself."

"That was fine!" said Grandpa Brown. "But, after this, Bunny, don't you
climb up on any ladders, or any other high places. If you are going to
use my barn for your circus, you must not get hurt."

"We won't!" Bunny promised.

"Then keep off ladders. Your little low trapeze is all right, for you
will fall in the hay if you slip off that. But no more ladder-climbing!"

"All right, Grandpa." Bunny got up. Sue picked up her doll, and Grandpa
Brown put back the hay into the mow, for he did not like his barn floor
covered with the dried grass, though, of course, he was very glad Sue
had put some there for Bunny to fall on.

Bunny and Sue went out of the barn, and walked around to the shady side.
It was only a little while after breakfast, hardly time to go in and ask
for something more to eat, which the children did every day about ten
o'clock. At that hour Grandma Brown generally had some bread and jam, or
jelly tarts, ready for them.

"What can we do until jam-time?" asked Sue, of her brother.