“I don’t either, but maybe my doll does,” said Sue.
“Well, Sue, you lie down with your doll,” suggested Mrs. Brown. And when Sue had done this she soon fell asleep. A little later Bunny, having no one with whom to play, went to the stateroom he shared with his father, and soon he was asleep.
When Bunny and Sue awakened some hours later they noticed a peculiar motion to the ship. No longer did she sail along calmly and steadily, but swayed up and down, rolling from side to side.
“Where are we? What’s happened?” Bunny asked his father, who was in the stateroom.
“Come up on deck and see,” was the answer.
It was getting dark when Bunny and his father reached the deck, but it was light enough to see that they were no longer in the river. They were out on big, wide, open water.
“Is this the ocean?” cried Bunny.
“Yes, this is the rolling ocean,” his father said.
Just then the ship gave such a roll that Bunny would have fallen had not his father caught hold of him.