s happened?"

For, you know, Bunny and Sue had slid down to the floor of the car when
the train came to such a sudden stop.

"Where are you, children?" called Mrs. Brown, anxiously.

"I--I'm here, Mother!" answered Sue. "Bunny pushed me off my seat!"

"Oh-o-o-o, Sue Brown! I did not!" cried the little fellow, getting up
with the parasol still in his hand. "I did not!"

"Well, you made the train stop, and that knocked me out of my seat, and
my doll was knocked down too, so there!" answered Sue, and she seemed
ready to cry.

"Bunny, what happened? What did you do?" asked his mother. "What are you
doing with my parasol?" she asked.

"I--I just reached up to pull down that rope with the crooked handle
end," Bunny answered, pointing to the whistle cord. "I wanted to show
Sue how strong it was, so I pulled on it."

"Oh ho!" exclaimed a fat man, a few seats ahead of Bunny. "So that's
what made the train stop; eh? I thought someone must have pulled the
engineer's whistle cord to make him stop, but I didn't think it was a
little boy like you."

"Oh, Bunny!" exclaimed his mother, when she saw what had happened. "You
shouldn't have done that. You musn't stop the train that way."

"I--I didn't want to stop the train, Mother!" the little boy answered.
"I just wanted to show Sue about the cord. I fell out of my seat, too,"
he added.

"Yes, nearly all of us did," said the fat man with a laugh. "Well if you
didn't mean to do it Bunny, we'll forgive you I suppose," and he laughed
in a jolly way.

Into the car came hurrying the conductor, with the gold bands on his
cap, and the brakeman. They looked all around, and then straight at
Bunny who still held his mother's parasol.

"Who pulled the whistle cord?" asked the conductor. Years ago there used
to be a bell cord in the train, and a bell rang in the engineer's cab
when the cord was pulled. But now an air whistle blows. "Who pulled the
cord?" asked the conductor.

Now Bunny Brown was a brave little chap, even when he knew he had done
wrong. So he spoke up and said:

"I--I pulled it, Mr. Conductor. I pulled the cord."

"You did eh?" and the conductor smiled a little now. Bunny looked so
funny and so cute standing there, with the parasol, and Sue looked so
pretty, standing near him, holding her doll upside down, that no one
could help at least smiling. Some of the passengers were laughing.

"And so you stopped my train; did you?" the conductor asked.

"I--I guess so,