"Maybe you can't help it."
"Yes, I can. You wait and see."
It was toward the close of the afternoon, and Bunny and Sue were beginning to wonder how much longer it would be before supper was ready, when, as they stood near Bunker, who was steering, the children saw a canoe with two young men and two young women in it being slowly paddled across the bay.
"They'd better watch where they're going," said Bunker Blue. "They seem to be aiming to cross our bows, and if they do—— Look out there!" he suddenly cried, as the canoe turned. "Do you want to be run down?"
The next moment there was a collision. The Fairy struck the small boat, upsetting it and spilling into the water the two young men and the young women.
"Oh! Oh!" cried Sue. "We've run over 'em!"
CHAPTER IX
THE MERRY GOAT
Bunny Brown, who had been sitting near his sister Sue on the deck of the Fairy, had jumped to his feet and run to the rail, or side of the boat, as the little girl cried out that their craft had run over the canoe. That was really what had happened. The two young men and the young women in the canoe had got in the way of the motor boat, and had been struck.