"Oh, so we could!" Bunny cried. "We'll do it. Pick out the biggest basket you can find, Sue."
Neither Bunny Brown nor his sister Sue thought it would be wrong to take a basket of groceries from the wagon for poor old Miss Hollyhock. They did not stop to think that the groceries belonged to someone else. All they thought of was that the old lady might be hungry.
"We'll take this basket," said Sue. "It's got lots in."
She pointed to one that held some bread, crackers, sugar, butter, potatoes, tea and coffee. All of these things were done up in paper bags, except the potatoes. Bunny and Sue could tell which was tea and which was coffee by the smell. And they had often gone to the store for their mother, so they knew how the grocer did up other things good to eat, in different sized bags or packages.
"Yes, that will be a nice basket to take to old Miss Hollyhock," agreed Bunny. "But I don't think I can carry it, Sue."
"I'll help you," said the little girl. "Anyhow, if we can't carry it all at once, we can take it in a little at a time."
"We—we ought to have a box to step on when we get out, same as we had to get in," said Bunny.
"Here's one," and Sue pointed to an empty box in the wagon.
Bunny dragged it to the back of the wagon. The end, or "tail," board was down, so there was no trouble in dropping the box out of the wagon to the ground. Then Bunny could step on it and get out. He also helped Sue down. But first they pulled the big basket of groceries close to the end of the wagon, where they could easily reach it.
"Now we'll surprise old Miss Hollyhock," said Bunny.