However, this did not seem to be a very good day for alligators, and the children had reached the most distant end of the island without seeing any when suddenly Sue, who had wandered a little ahead of her brother, called out:
"Look, there's another island!"
And, surely enough, there was a smaller one a short distance from the larger one on which the children had first landed.
"Come on! We'll go there!" cried Bunny. "Maybe there's alligators there!"
He hurried down to the strip of water that separated the two islands. Then he began to roll up his trousers as far above his knees as he could.
"What you going to do?" asked Sue.
"I'm going to wade over to that other island," Bunny answered.
"Maybe the water's deep," suggested his sister.
"Well, if it is I won't go," Bunny replied. "But I don't guess it is."
"And maybe there's alligators in the water," went on Sue.