Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog

by Laura Lee Hope

“I’ll bring my pet alligator,” offered George.

“Oh, have you got an alligator?” cried the other boys.

“Sure!”

“Where’d you get it?”

“My uncle sent him to me from Florida. He’s two feet long and he eats raw meat.”

“Who does—your uncle?” asked Charlie, with a laugh.

“No, my alligator!” and George also chuckled. “But are you really going to give a show, Bunny?”

“I guess so,” answered the owner of Patter.

“Like you did before?” George wanted to know.

Once before, as told of in the book of that name, Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue had given a show. It was really gotten up by the ladies of the town in aid of the Red Cross, but Bunny and Sue and some other boys and girls helped. Toby, the pony, was in the show, and so was Splash, the dog, who had been sent away to be cured of a disease, but who had never come back. Bunny and Sue feared Splash was dead, and their father and mother said little about the old dog for fear of making the children feel sad. Then, too, in the show was Jed Winkler’s monkey named Wango. You’ll hear more about that monkey later on in this book.