Sue didn't know just what to answer. But finally she said:
"Wait, Bunny. I'll get a long stick, and let you take hold of one end of it. I'll keep hold of the other end, and I'll stay here and pull you out."
"All right! But hurry up! I'm sinking down deeper all the while."
Sue looked about on the bank of the stream, until she found a long, thin branch from a tree, where it had blown to the ground. She held one end of this branch out to her brother, and he took hold of it.
"Now I'll pull you out!" cried Sue, as she held her end of the branch in both her hands.
But instead of Sue pulling Bunny, it was Bunny who pulled Sue, as he was stronger than she was.
"Oh, look out, Bunny! Look out!" cried the little girl. "I'll fall in!"
"Yes," said Bunny, as he stopped pulling on the stick Sue held, "I guess you will. But oh, Sue! You'll have to help me! I'm sinking down more and more."
And Bunny was. The water was nearly up to his trousers now. He was sinking down deeper in the mud.
"I'll go and tell papa and mamma!" Sue cried, as she threw down the tree branch, and ran through the woods. "They'll know how to get you out."