"I see," said Bunny.

"Well, that shows how high the water got," explained his father. "You
see the top of the water is below that now, which shows that the flood
is going down. And I am glad enough of it."

"So am I," said Mrs. Brown. "We've had water enough for once."

The storm had been such a heavy one that it could not last long, and by
noon the sun was out. But it would take some time for the flood to go
down and the roads to dry up.

"We'll probably stay here three days," said Mr. Brown. "It looks like a
nice place, and we have plenty to eat. We'll stay and let things dry
out. Traveling on a muddy, slippery road, with a heavy automobile like
this, is not safe. We'll wait a while."

Anything suited Bunny and Sue as long as they were seeing or having
something new. And when the rain stopped their mother let them put on
their rubber boots and wade where the water was not too deep.

After wading about awhile, Bunny thought of something to do.

"Let's make a raft!" he said to Sue.

"Oh, that will be fun!" she cried.

Sue knew what a raft was from living near the seashore. Many times she
and her brother had made them, and they had often heard stories of