ages.

"Yes, that will be a nice basket to take to old Miss Hollyhock," agreed
Bunny. "But I don't think I can carry it, Sue."

"I'll help you," said the little girl. "Anyhow, if we can't carry it all
at once, we can take it in a little at a time."

"We--we ought to have a box to step on when we get out, same as we had
to get in," said Bunny.

"Here's one," and Sue pointed to an empty box in the wagon.

Bunny dragged it to the back of the wagon. The end, or "tail," board was
down, so there was no trouble in dropping the box out of the wagon to
the ground. Then Bunny could step on it and get out. He also helped Sue
down. But first they pulled the big basket of groceries close to the end
of the wagon, where they could easily reach it.

"Now we'll surprise old Miss Hollyhock," said Bunny.

"Won't it be nice!" exclaimed Sue.

They did not stop to think that they might also surprise someone else
besides the poor old lady.

Looking toward the Thompson house, to make sure Tommie was not coming
out, Bunny and Sue filled their little arms with bundles from the
grocery basket, and started toward old Miss Hollyhock's cabin. They did
not want Tommie to see what they were doing.

"'Cause maybe he wouldn't want to give her so much," said Bunny. "But
mother will pay for it if we ask her to."

"Yes," said Sue.

Together they went up to old Miss Hollyhock's door. Then Bunny thought
of something else.

"We'll give her a surprise," he whispered to Sue. "We'll make believe
it's Valentine's Day or Hallowe'en, and we'll leave the things on her
doorstep, and run away."

"That will be nice," said Sue.

The children had to make three trips before they had all the groceries
out of the basket and piled nicely on the front steps of old Miss
Hollyhock's house. But at last it was all done, and Bunny and Sue
climbed back in the wagon again. Bunny even reached down and pulled up
after him the box on which he and his sister had stepped when they got
in and out.

All this while Tommie had not come out of the Thompson house, so of
course he had not seen what the children had done. Soon after Bunny and
Sue were safely snuggled down amid the boxes and baskets once more, the
grocery boy came down the walk whistling.

He threw an empty basket into the wagon, put in his pocket the book in
which he had written down the order Mrs. Thompson had given him, and
cried to Prince:

"Giddap!"

"And he giddapped as fast as anything!" said Sue,