“Oh!” cried Sue. Standing on her tiptoes she looked over and down into the coil of rope, which was hollow and shaped like a small barrel. There, crouched down inside the coil of rope, was Bunny!
“Tit-tat, Bunny!” cried Sue, running to touch “home,” which was a deck ventilator.
“Ho! you wouldn’t have found me if I hadn’t sneezed,” said Bunny as he climbed out of the pile of rope.
“No, I guess I wouldn’t,” agreed Sue. “It was a good place to hide. Now it’s my turn.”
When Bunny “blinded” Sue crept softly away and then, circling back, she hid behind the very ventilator where Bunny was standing. The ventilator was like a big pipe, and it completely hid little Sue. So when Bunny walked away, thinking his sister was perhaps hiding in the same coil of rope where he had been, Sue darted out, touched “home,” and cried:
“In free! In free!”
She had beaten Bunny at his own game.
The children played hide-and-seek until it was time for lunch, and after lunch they had more fun. Then their mother, knowing they must be tired, having arisen early to start traveling, said:
“I think you had better go to your bunks and lie down for a nap, you two.”
“Oh, I don’t want to go to bed in the daytime!” objected Bunny.