her hands near her nose.
"That's an onion," the hired man said. "I guess you had better run in
from the garden, and let me do the weeding. When you get older you can
tell which are weeds and which are onions."
"I'm never going to eat onions, anyhow!" Sue said, making another funny
face, with her nose all wrinkled.
"I don't like onions, either," Bunny said. "They have an awful funny
smell; haven't they, mister?"
"Well, some folks think so," and the hired man went on with his weeding
while the children ran away.
But they did not go to the house. Instead they walked farther on through
the garden, until they came to some rows of boxes.
"Oh, look at the cute play-houses!" cried Sue. "Let's look at them,
Bunny."
"All right," answered her brother.
They went up to one of the houses. A queer sort of buzzing sound came
from it.
"Let's look inside," said Bunny.
"All right," agreed Sue. "There's a lot of flies in front, Bunny," and
she pointed to them.
As Bunny was about to lift off the top of one of the boxes, he heard the
hired man, from the onion patch, calling:
"Get away! Run away from there or you'll be stung! Run! Run!"
CHAPTER XII
BUNNY'S WATERFALL
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, at first, did not know what the hired
man meant. They did not see why they could not stay and play with the
queer little boxes, which, as Sue said, were just like doll houses. She
was even going back to the farmhouse and get one of her dolls, for she
had brought three or four with her in the big automobile.
But now the hired man was running toward Bunny and Sue. He had stopped
weeding the onions.
"Run away! Run away!" he cried again, waving his arms at the children.
"Run away! Hurry!"
"What for?" asked Bunny.
Bunny was always good at asking questions.
"Why should we run?" Bunny asked.
Before the man could answer Sue cried out:
"Oh, Bunny! Look at the flies! They're buzzing all around me. I don't
like them. Come on!"
At the same time a number of the "flies," as Sue called them, began
buzzing around Bunny's head. He waved his hands to drive them off.
"Don't do that! Keep your arms still and come away!" cried the hired
man. "If you don't run away you'll be badly stung!"
By this time he was close to Bunny and Sue. He caught the little boy up
in one arm, and Sue in the other, and ran with them away from the little
"play houses." Then, when they were some distance from the buzzing
insect
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