CHAPTER X

THE OLD ROOSTER


Again and again Bunny Brown dipped the brush in the green paint the
hired man had left, and stripe after stripe did the little fellow put on
the calf.

"She'll be a regular circus zebra when I'm done," said Bunny Brown to
his sister Sue. Both children laughed in glee.

"Are you going to paint both sides of the calf, Bunny?"

"I am if I can reach. Maybe I can't. Anyhow, a zebra ought to be painted
on both sides. Not like we're going to do our dog Splash; only on one
side, to make a pretend blue-striped tiger of him."

Sue seemed to be thinking of something.

"Doesn't he look nice?" asked Bunny of his sister. "Isn't he going to be
a fine zebra?"

He stood back from the box-stall where the calf was kept, so Sue could
see how the little animal looked.

"Doesn't he look pretty, Sue? Just like a circus zebra, only of course
they're not green. But isn't he nice?"

"Yes," said Sue, "he is pretty."