"I won't," promised Bunny.
Then the children began to get ready for their father's return with the
boat, and when Sue's doll was laid out in a shady place on the grass,
and Bunny's pole and line were where he could easily find them, the
little boy said:
"Let's walk down to the edge of the lake, and maybe we can see daddy
quicker."
"All right--let's," agreed Sue, and the two were soon walking, hand in
hand, down the slope that led to the water.
"Where are you going?" called Mother Brown.
"Oh, just down to the shore," answered Bunny.
"Very well; but don't go into the water, and don't step into any of the
boats until daddy comes."
"We won't," promised Bunny Brown and his sister Sue. Their mother could
always depend on them to keep their promises, though sometimes the
things they did were worse than those they promised her not to do. They
were just different, that was all.
Sue and Bunny went down to the edge of Lake Wanda. They could not see
their father's boat, so they walked along the shore. Before they knew it
they had gone farther than they had ever gone before, and, all at once,
in the side of the hill, that led down to the beach of the lake, they
saw a hole that seemed to go away back under the hill.
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