trawberries. Grandpa
Brown told them of a place, not far from the house, on a little hill,
where many berries grew.
"And you won't have to go near the turkey to get there, either," he
said. "Though I see you haven't your red dress on, Sue, so even if the
gobbler did see you, I don't believe he would chase you this time."
"I only wear my red dress when I go visiting," said Sue. "But I'm not
going to visit turkey gobblers any more."
Bunny and Sue found many berries on the hill their grandpa had told them
about, and soon their pail was half full. A little way off were some
woods, but before one came to the place where the trees grew thick, with
green moss beneath them, there was a field, and in this field Bunny saw
some bushes with deep, purple berries growing on them.
"Oh, Sue!" he cried. "Let's pick some raspberries! There's lots on those
bushes, and grandma can make raspberry jam, and put it in tarts, like
Aunt Lu did. Let's pick raspberries! We've got enough strawberries!"
"All right," answered Sue, for she was always ready to do what Bunny
wanted her to.
The two children were soon in the field, picking the purple raspberries.
They walked on and on, from one bush to another, and by the time their
pail was full, with the raspberries on top of the strawberries, they
were close to the woods.
"Let's go in and rest in the shade," Sue said. "I'm awful tired and hot,
Bunny."
"All right, we'll go in," and in they went. It was nice and cool beneath
the trees, and the children found a spring of water where they had a
drink, for they were thirsty.
"And I'm hungry, too," said Sue, after a bit. "Bunny, do you s'pose we
could eat some of the berries? We can pick more before we go home."
"Yes, we'll eat some, Sue."
Seated on the green moss, in the shade of a tree, Bunny and Sue ate the
berries, getting their faces and hands stained red and purple.
"But we can wash in the spring before we go home," Sue said, "so it will
be all right."
"Yes," agreed Bunny.
After resting a while the children washed at the spring, and took
another drink. Then they saw a big frog hopping along. He must have been
having a bath in the spring, which was almost as large as a washtub.
"Let's see if we can catch that frog!" cried Bunny. "We won't hurt him,
though."
So he and Sue followed the frog. But the frog was a good jumper, and led
the children quite a chase. And then, just when Bunny thought he was
going to put his han
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