Bunny swung on his little, low trapeze, and then, after he had jumped off into the hay as Ben had taught him, the little fellow began climbing the ladder to the beam on which was fastened the big and high trapeze.
"Oh, Bunny! Where you going?" asked Sue.
"Up here. I want to see how high it looks."
"Oh, Bunny Brown! You come right down, or I'll go and tell mamma! She said you weren't to climb up high."
"I—I'm not going very high, Sue."
Bunny was half way up the ladder. And, just as he spoke to Sue, his foot slipped, and down he fell, in between two rounds of the ladder.
"Oh! oh!" cried Sue. "Oh, Bunny! You're going to fall!"
But Bunny did not fall all the way. As he slipped, his hands caught hold of a round of the ladder, and there he clung, just as if he had hold of the bar of his swinging trapeze.