Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog

“I’ll answer it!” called Bunny, for he knew his mother was down in the kitchen, helping the maid get supper ready. It was almost supper time. Bunny could tell this, he said, “by the empty feeling in his little tummy.”

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

“I’ll answer it!” called Bunny, for he knew his mother was down in the kitchen, helping the maid get supper ready. It was almost supper time. Bunny could tell this, he said, “by...

2. CHAPTER II

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were really surprised at Daddy Brown’s surprise. Never had they been so astonished. They watched the queer little chap with his red, white and blu...

3. CHAPTER III

“Oh, no,” answered Mr. Brown. “The Frenchman will not take your Patter back. I made him promise if I took the dog for the money that was owing to me that it would be mine foreve...

4. CHAPTER IV

Bunny Brown was so surprised by what his sister called, about Toby the pony coming back, that the little boy let go of Patter’s hind legs, which had been raised in the air to tr...

5. CHAPTER V

Not knowing what trick it was, if such it should prove to be, that Patter planned to do next, Bunny could not answer his sister’s question. And then, as both children looked at...

6. CHAPTER VI

Bunny did not have a very tight hold of the reins when he was driving Toby, for generally the pony was so gentle that he needed but little guiding. And when the little horse gav...

7. CHAPTER VII

“That’s a fine trick!” said Bunny with delight, as he watched Patter swim out to the middle of the brook, and then, having taken the cap in his teeth, swim back to shore with it...

8. CHAPTER VIII

“No, it isn’t eggs and it isn’t a groundhog,” said Charlie. It might easily have been either one, since the hens often laid eggs in the hay, and groundhogs, or woodchucks, were...

9. CHAPTER IX

Bunny Brown and his boy chums stopped what they were doing toward making it possible for Patter to swing on the trapeze. They had found that the dog could not hang by his paws,...

10. CHAPTER X

There was the trick Patter did of bringing the caps from the brook. Then came the making of the trapeze, the finding of Sue and the monkey, after Sue had been thought to be lost...

11. CHAPTER XI

There is a great deal of work to be done whenever a church fair is held. Bunny and Sue did not know this, but it is true. Mrs. Brown and her friends were kept very busy, and whe...

12. CHAPTER XII

When Patter barked the kitten made a big mistake. Instead of jumping off the window sill to the ground outside, for the window was open, the little black cat with white feet lea...

13. CHAPTER XIII

Patter now seemed to have matters just as he wanted them. He had gotten his wish--that is if dogs ever wish--for he had the little black cat, with her four white feet, up on his...

14. CHAPTER XIV

Crabs can pinch very hard, as any of you knows who has been unlucky enough to be nipped by one. I have had even a small one draw blood when he closed his pinchers on my thumb.

15. CHAPTER XV

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were not afraid of being on the water in a boat. They knew how to swim, and they had paddled and rowed around Sandport Bay often enough to know ho...

16. CHAPTER XVI

Through the hospital halls and corridors went Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog, Mr. Brown coming along behind and directing them which way to go, as he had bee...

17. CHAPTER XVII

Toby, the Shetland pony, was peacefully eating in his stable. He stopped chewing hay to listen as he heard the sound of many feet rushing into the barn. Then Toby whinnied with...

18. CHAPTER XVIII

Though it was perhaps half a mile from where Bunny and his chums and the farmer stood to the field of corn where the cows were causing such trouble, still the animals were in pl...

19. CHAPTER XIX

Everyone had a different idea as to how the tickets could best be sold, and when there are half a dozen or more boys all talking at once it is hard to get anything straight. Bes...

20. CHAPTER XX

“Nonsense! He isn’t lost! I guess he’s just hiding from you for fun,” said Mr. Brown, who was already sitting down to the table, as he was in a hurry to get down to his dock. Th...

21. CHAPTER XXI

All day long the search for the lost Patter was kept up, but the trick dog could not be found. Even some of the police and firemen helped to look, when they were not on regular...

22. CHAPTER XXII

“Oh, all right, Bunny, you can sop up my tears if you want to. But I guess I won’t cry any more. Anyway, not if you can find the way home.”

23. CHAPTER XXIII

Luckily the stairs in the old factory were in good shape. If they had been broken or so shaky that they would not have held up Bunny and Sue, the children might have fallen and...

24. CHAPTER XXIV

“Well, somebody took away a dog belonging to this little girl and boy,” went on Mr. Ward, “and they thought maybe their dog was the one you found. We’d like to look at him.”

25. CHAPTER XXV

It was the day of the “Great Show!” The “ten dollar show,” as some of Mr. Brown’s business friends called it because of the mistake on the tickets. The barn had been fixed up wi...