“Ho! Ho!” laughed Sue. “You told the ship to whoa like a horse. You shouldn’t say whoa to a ship. You’ve got to tell it to halt, Bunny Brown.”
Then Bunny saw he had made a mistake. But in turn he laughed at Sue.
“You don’t say halt to a ship,” he declared. “You only say halt to soldiers, and we aren’t playing soldiers.”
“Well, anyhow, you don’t say whoa to a ship,” declared Sue.
“No, I guess you don’t,” admitted Bunny. “Well, anyhow, the ship has stopped and we’re at Pier Number Three and you can go ashore without getting in the water now and bring your daughter on board,” he said.
“All right,” Sue agreed.
So she again stepped in the grass, but this time it was not water, but the floor boards of the pier, so of course she could not get wet. Up to the house she ran to get one of her dolls, and soon she was back on board the Beacon. She found Bunny making a loud hissing noise.
“What you doing?” Sue asked. “Are you playing wild animals? You sound like a snake. I don’t want to play wild animals. I want to play ship.”
“I am playing ship,” declared Bunny. “I’m the engine blowing off steam. Don’t you know steam when you hear it?”
“Oh, if it’s steam, all right,” agreed Sue. “I thought you were a snake.”