But Bunny Brown was kind-hearted. He had forgiven George for the trick about the frogs. And Bunny wanted to learn all he could about climbing trees.
"Yes, you can come in, George," said Sue's brother.
George was very glad to do so, for he liked to play with these boys, though he was older than they were. And since his trick with the jumping frogs, in the box, George had been rather lonesome.
"Now I'll show you how to climb trees!" he said.
"I can climb this one," declared Bunny, going over to one in which he had often gone up several feet.
"Oh, that's an easy one," said George with a laugh. "You ought to try and climb a hard one, like this."
Up went George, quite high, in a larger tree. Charlie and Harry also each got into a bigger tree than the one Bunny had picked out. And of course Bunny, like any boy, wanted to do as he saw the others doing.
"Pooh! I can climb a big tree, too," he said. He got down from the one he had picked out, and started up another. He watched how George put first one foot on a branch and then the other foot, at the same time pulling himself up by his hands. Bunny did very well until his foot slipped and went down in a hole in the tree, where the wood had rotted away, leaving a hollow place.
Down into this hollow, that might some day be a squirrel's nest, went
Bunny's foot and leg. Then he cried out:
"Oh, I'm caught! I'm caught! My foot is fast, and I can't pull it loose!"