city. I know we'll have
plenty of fun, Sue."

"Yes, I guess we will. When are we going, Mother?"

"Oh, in about a week, I think. I'll write and tell Aunt Lu we are
coming."

"She hasn't lost her diamond ring again; has she?" asked Bunny.

"No, I guess not. She doesn't say anything about it, if she has,"
answered Mrs. Brown.

"'Cause if she had lost it we'd help her find it," the little boy went
on. "Oh, Sue! aren't you glad we're going?"

"Well, I just guess I am!" said Sue, happily, singing again.

She and Bunny talked of nothing else all that day but of the visit to
Aunt Lu, and at night, when they were going to bed, they made plans of
what they would do when they got to Aunt Lu's city house in New York.

"You'll come; won't you, Daddy?" asked Bunny, at breakfast the next
morning, just before Mr. Brown was ready to start for his office at the
fish dock.

"Well, yes, I guess I'll come down when it gets so cold here that the
boats can't go out in the bay on account of the ice," said daddy.

"Oh, are we going to stay until winter?" asked Sue.

"Yes, we shall stay over Christmas," her mother answered.

"Will there be a place to slide down hill?" Bunny wanted to know.

"I'm afraid not, in New York City," Mr. Brown said. "But you can have
other kinds of fun, Bunny and Sue."

"Oh, I can hardly wait for the time to come!" cried Sue, as she once
more danced around the room with her doll.

"Let's go out in the yard and play teeter-tauter," called Bunny. "That
will make the time pass quicker, Sue."

Bunker Blue had made for the children a seesaw from a long plank put
over a wooden sawhorse. When Bunny sat on one end of the plank, and Sue
on the other, they went first up and then down, "teeter-tauter, bread
and water," as they sang when they played this game.

Soon the brother and sister were enjoying themselves this way, talking
about what fun they would have at Aunt Lu's city home. Then, all at
once, Bunny jumped off the seesaw, and of course Sue came down with a
bump.

"Oh, Bunny Brown!" she cried, "what did you do that for? Why didn't you
tell me you were goin' to get off, an' then I could stop myself from
bumpin'."

"I'm sorry," said Bunny. "I didn't know I was going to jump till I did.
Did you get hurted?"

"No, but I might have. And you knocked my doll out of my lap, and maybe
she's hurted."

"Oh, you can't hurt a doll!" cried Bunny. "Pooh!"

"Yes you can, too!"

"No you can't!"

The child