ds on him, the big green fellow found another
spring, and into that he went with a splash, grunting as he did so:

"Ker-ugh! Ker-ung!"

"Oh, he's gone!" cried Sue, quite sadly.

"Never mind," replied Bunny. "We'll find another."

But they did not, though they waited around the second spring for some
time.

"I guess we'd better go home," said Bunny.

"Yes," agreed Sue, looking around at the trees on every side of them.
The children started, but going home was not as easy as it seemed. They
walked on and on, and soon Sue began to get tired.

"Aren't we at the place where we picked the berries?" she asked, after a
bit.

"Almost," answered Bunny. But though he looked and looked through the
trees he could not see the field and the little hill that was not far
from Grandpa Brown's house.

The children went on a little farther, until, all at once, Bunny
stumbled over a stone and fell.

The pail flew from his hand, and the berries spilled all over the
ground.

"Oh, dear!" cried Sue. Then she added quickly: "But I'll help you pick
them up, Bunny."

Bunny sat up and rubbed his knee. He wrinkled up his nose in a funny
way.

"Does it hurt?" asked Sue.

"My leg does, a little, but not my nose," Bunny said. And then he
laughed.

The children picked up the scattered berries. Their pail was only half
full now, for they could not find all the berries that had spilled.

"We'll have to pick a lot more," remarked Sue.

"Yes," said Bunny. "We will when we find the bushes."

On they went again. But it seemed that they would never get out of the
woods. After a while Bunny stopped, sat down on a log and said:

"Sue, I know what's the matter!"

"What?" asked the little girl. "Does your leg hurt? Is that what's the
matter?"

"No," answered Bunny. "The matter is--we're lost. That's why we can't
find the berry-bushes. We're lost, Sue!"

CHAPTER XV

THE OLD HERMIT

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue had been lost before, several times.
Maybe that is why Sue was not so frightened now, when Bunny spoke as he
did. As for the little boy, he seemed more tired than worried.

"Yes, Sue," he said again. "I guess we're lost. I've looked all over,
and I can't see the hill where we picked the strawberries, nor the field
where we got the raspberries."

"I can't either," said Sue. "And I wish we had some berries, Bunny."

"Why?"

"'Cause I'm hungry right now again."

"Well, you can eat these, Sue. I don't want 'em."