"Won't it be nice!" exclaimed Sue.
They did not stop to think that they might also surprise someone else besides the poor old lady.
Looking toward the Thompson house, to make sure Tommie was not coming out, Bunny and Sue filled their little arms with bundles from the grocery basket, and started toward old Miss Hollyhock's cabin. They did not want Tommie to see what they were doing.
"'Cause maybe he wouldn't want to give her so much," said Bunny. "But mother will pay for it if we ask her to."
"Yes," said Sue.
Together they went up to old Miss Hollyhock's door. Then Bunny thought of something else.
"We'll give her a surprise," he whispered to Sue. "We'll make believe it's Valentine's Day or Hallowe'en, and we'll leave the things on her doorstep, and run away."
"That will be nice," said Sue.
The children had to make three trips before they had all the groceries out of the basket and piled nicely on the front steps of old Miss Hollyhock's house. But at last it was all done, and Bunny and Sue climbed back in the wagon again. Bunny even reached down and pulled up after him the box on which he and his sister had stepped when they got in and out.
All this while Tommie had not come out of the Thompson house, so of course he had not seen what the children had done. Soon after Bunny and Sue were safely snuggled down amid the boxes and baskets once more, the grocery boy came down the walk whistling.