“Sure, I do!” he cried. “Why not, Mother?”
“I thought you had eaten so many cookies while you were in the pantry that you wouldn’t want anything else.”
“Oh, I didn’t eat many,” said Bunny. “Only five or six. And I’m hungry yet.”
Afterward Bunny and Sue played some games out on deck and when evening came they listened to a story their father told them and went to bed.
“What a lovely, calm and quiet evening,” said Mrs. Brown to her husband as they walked the deck a little while before going to their staterooms.
“Yes, the ocean is hardly rolling any now,” said Mr. Brown. “There is no wind at all. If this were a sailing ship we would be becalmed, not able to move.”
But the Beacon, being a steamer, plowed her way through the warm, southern waters while Bunny and Sue slept soundly. It was in the morning when Bunny and Sue were dressing, their parents having gotten up earlier to go out on deck, that something happened.
Sue had finished putting on her clothes, as had Bunny, and the children were just leaving their staterooms when the ship suddenly trembled and shook and a most terrific blast sounded in their ears.
“Oh! Oh!” cried Sue, as she made a wild jump. “What’s that terrible noise, Bunny? Did you hear it? There it goes again!”
“Sure, I heard it!” answered Bunny, but Sue could hardly hear him above the strange blast of sound.