Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods by Laura Lee Hope
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come down by the path. My train is all right, too. Eagle Feather saved
it for me. He's one of the Indians from the reservation." The State had set aside certain land for the Indians on which they must live. Bunny and Sue, with their father or mother or Uncle Tad, had often been to the place where the Indians lived. "Are you all right, Bunny?" asked Sue again. "Yep. Course. But I'm all dirty. Don't you roll down." "I won't," promised the little girl, and she started for the path, which was an easier way of getting to the bottom of the hill. The Indian waited with Bunny, and when Sue stood beside the two Eagle Feather gave a sort of grunt of welcome, for Indians are not great talkers. "Bunny has an 'lectric train," said Sue, for she was no more afraid of the red men than was her brother. "Bunny has an 'lectric train, and I have an 'lectric Teddy bear. See, Eagle Feather!" She pushed the button, or switch, in the back of her toy, and at once the eyes flashed out brightly. "Huh! That much like real bear when you see him in dark by campfire," said the Indian. "Much funny. Let Eagle Feather see!" Sue showed the Indian how to make the eyes gleam by pressing the button in the toy bear's back, and Eagle Feather did this several times. He seemed to think the toy bear was a more wonderful toy than the train he had saved from the lake. He gave this back to Bunny and kept the bear, |
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