"What's the matter? What's happened?" asked Bunny Brown. "Are you going
to fall, Sue?"

He was helping his sister on one side to climb in the window, and
Charlie was on the other side of the little girl.

"No, I'm not going to fall," Sue answered. "But look at my dress! It's
all red paint!"

And so it was! In addition to being wet and muddy her skirt was now
covered with big blotches of red paint--the same kind of paint that was
being put on the roof.

"How did it happen?" went on Sue, almost ready to cry again. "I didn't
step in any paint, did I?"

"Even if you did I don't see how it got on your dress," said Charlie
Star.

"There's some on me, too!" cried Bunny Brown. "There's some on my
pants!"

"And I'm daubed just like you!" cried Charlie. "We're all three
painted!"

And they were, only Sue had more of it on her dress than the boys had on
their clothes.

"It must have been on the ladder," decided Charlie. "The painter man got