as well, found so much to talk over, about camping out, that

" begged Bunny, when his mother told him it

once more, how he cooks egg

Brown. "That's one of the things you mus

mbed up into his lap again after supper. He stood up tall an

he said. "Time to go

had seen his father do. That was saluting, you know, just as a gentle

little boy had answered like a sailor. You see, he knew more about sailo

out it, or talking too much, Bunny's father would pretend he was a captain, and the

gain. "Bunny Brown report to bed. Or

They lay awake a little while, talking back and forth through the door betw

our longer, talking about going to c

ving in a tent near the lake," said D

y'll be sure to like it. I o

lash will pull them o

n before breakfast they had thought of the good t

ut and see the tent

m going to send Bunker Blue and some of the fishermen around to-day to put it up so it will dry out. Th

going?" aske

s soon as the weather get

he nicest month in all the year to go camping in the woods, for the days are so long that it

elves might have tried to put it up out on the lawn. Bunny Brown was that kind of boy. And Sue would have helped him. But, as it was, they waited for Bunker and s

w days," said Mr. Brown, "and also the

, and dishes, pots, pans, an oil stove and good things to eat, would all be put in the big

we get to the woods, on the shore of the beautiful lake, we'll

can you?" asked Sue, s

y. "But who is going to help you put up the

ue is going ca

!" crie

e Uncle Tad along,"

an old soldier, who had fought in the war. He was really Mr. Brown's uncle, but the chil

un playing in it that day. Splash, their dog, played in the tent

en we go camping?" Sue wanted to know, as she

with us. You can sleep on the ground, though. Mother read me a story about some hunters who cut off som

do that?"

queer look came on the face of B

, is you g

wered slowly, "I

e. "Tell me about it,

more than to do things with her brother. They were not always the right things to

meant he was going to do something to have f

Bunny!"

d the tent, as if to make sure no one was listening, a

ou like to practi

Sue. She did not just

out in this tent, I mean. We'll have to do it, if we go to

l whom they knew took music lessons, and she had to

d over again, before you could play the piano, you might

e do it?"

'll bring our blankets out here

d mother won't

ight, when they've gone to sleep. We can slip down, out of our rooms, with our blankets, and sleep in the tent o

will, Bu

y wanted her to. This time she

night, after it gets all dark, w

to sleep in my own be

ny. "I won't go to sleep, and I'

n anyone tickled her feet, and even

e said. "'Cause if you do I'll sneeze

e you too hard

upper, Mrs. Brown s

up to some trick,

u think so?" a

sed for anything all afternoon, and now they are getting ready

py," said Mr. Brown, wh

re up to some trick,

ust you wait and see whet

bed earlier than usual that night. Bunny,

we can be awake quicker

en the door

back door

evergreen tree cut so we can spread our

hook hi

o. We can each take two blankets off our beds, Sue, and that will make the ground soft enough. 'Sides, if we'

Sue. "But I'll come with you a

when we go camp

th her doll, went up to bed

" said Mother Brown, as she came down after tuck

isn't anything

ep awake. They had played hard all day,

wakened sometime in the night, I suppose because he

n the hall, so he could see plainly enough. He remembered

putting on his bath robe. He dragge

overs he gently tick

tter?" murmured

e! I don't want to tickle you any more, and make you s

her bath robe, which was on a chair near her bed, and then, draggin

nt out on the side porch, and down across the lawn