how strong it
is. No one can break it."

He reached up toward the whistle cord, but he was too short to get hold
of it.

"I know how you can get it," said Sue.

"How can I get it?" Bunny asked.

"Hook it down with mother's parasol," answered Sue.

"Oh, so I can!" cried Bunny.

He went back to the seat where his mother sat. Mrs. Brown had fallen
asleep, and Bunny got her parasol without awakening her.

The little fellow raised the umbrella, and hooked the crook in the end
of it over the whistle cord. He pulled down hard, and then--well, I
guess I'll tell you in the next chapter what happened.

CHAPTER VIII

AUNT LU'S SURPRISE

When Bunny Brown pulled down on the whistle cord in the railroad car, a
very strange thing happened. All at once there was a loud squeaking,
grinding sound. The car shivered and shook and began to go slowly. It
stopped so suddenly that Bunny slid out of the smooth plush seat down to
the floor. So did his sister Sue.

Some of the other passengers had hard work to keep from sliding from
their seats, and many of them jumped up and began calling:

"What's the matter?"

"What has happened?"

"Is there an accident?"

For when a train stops suddenly, you know, if it is going along fast, it
almost always means that something has happened, or that there is a
cow, or something else, on the track, and that the engineer wants to
stop, quickly, so as not to hit it. And that's what the other passengers
thought now.

Mrs. Brown was suddenly awakened from her sleep. She, too, had almost
slid from her seat when the car stopped so suddenly. For the moment
Bunny pulled down on the cord, it blew a whistle in the cab, or little
house of the engine, where the engineer sits. And when the engineer
heard that whistle he knew it meant for him to stop as soon as he could.

He could look down the track, and see that there was nothing on the
rails that he could hit, but, hearing the whistle, he thought the
conductor, or one of the brakemen, must have pulled the cord. Perhaps
the engineer thought some one had fallen off the train, as people
sometimes fall off boats, and the engineer wanted to stop quickly so the
passenger could be picked up. At any rate, he stopped very suddenly, and
that was what made all the trouble. Or, rather, Bunny Brown made all the
trouble, though he did not mean to.

"Why, Bunny!" cried his mother, as she straightened up in her seat.
"Where are you? Where is Sue? What ha