She began to dig again with the small shovel, and Uncle Tad was doing his best with the broken one when Sue and Helen, coming around the corner with a large shovel which they had borrowed next door, gave a sudden cry.
"What is it?" asked Mrs. Brown.
"There's Bunny now!" exclaimed Sue. "Look!"
They all looked, and, surely enough, Bunny was coming up the outside steps of the cellar. He walked up as if nothing had happened.
"Bunny Brown! what trick is this?" exclaimed his mother. "What made you pretend to be buried under all that snow and give us such a fright for, when you weren't there at all?"
"But I was there, Mother," Bunny said. "I was under the snow."
"Then how did you get out?" Uncle Tad asked. "It surely looks like a trick, Bunny Brown."