"Soldiers mustn't sleep when they are guarding the camp! I'm a make-believe soldier, and I mustn't sleep!"
Then he would be wide awake for a little while. But soon his head would nod again. And finally Bunny slept, just as Sue was doing, only he was asleep in the chair, and she was in the hermit's bed.
Just how long he slept Bunny did not know. But, all at once, he was awakened by a noise at the door. At first he thought it was the hermit, who had come back with his papa or mamma.
But then, instead of a knock, a scratching sound was heard. Then Sue awoke, and heard it too.
"Scratch!" went something on the door.
"Oh, Bunny, what is it?" asked Sue, sitting up in bed. "What is it, Bunny?"
CHAPTER XVIII
THE PICNIC
Bunny Brown did not answer his sister Sue right away. He was listening to the queer scratching sound. He wanted to try and think what it was.