"I didn't dast do it," he said. "They might see me cutting 'em, and then they'd guess what we were going to do. We can each take two blankets off our beds, Sue, and that will make the ground soft enough. 'Sides, if we're going to be campers, and sleep in the woods, we mustn't mind a hard bed. Soldiers don't—for daddy said so."
"Girls aren't soldiers!" said Sue. "But I'll come with you and we'll sleep on two blankets."
"To practice for when we go camping," added Bunny.
Sue nodded her head, and, with her doll, went up to bed in the room next to Bunny's.
"I just know those children are up to something," said Mother Brown, as she came down after tucking in Bunny and Sue. "I wish I knew what it was."
"Oh, I guess it isn't anything," laughed daddy.
Sue and her brother found it hard to keep awake. They had played hard all day, and that always makes children sleepy.
In fact, Bunny and Sue did fall asleep, but Bunny awakened sometime in the night, I suppose because he was thinking so much about going out into the tent.
The little fellow sat up in bed. A light was burning out in the hall, so he could see plainly enough. He remembered what he had promised to do—wake up Sue by tickling her feet.
Softly he stole into her room, after putting on his bath robe. He dragged after him two blankets from his bed.