"No, I think I can get it out," said Mrs. Brown. Once more she put her hand down in the hollow, and, now that Bunny's foot was out of his shoe, it could easily be bent and twisted, so that it came loose.
"There you are!" exclaimed Aunt Lu, as she buttoned Bunny's shoe on him again, using a hairpin for a buttonhook. "Now don't climb any more trees."
"I'll just climb my own little tree," Bunny said. "That hasn't any hole in it."
And while the tree-climbing fun was going on Bunny only went up his own little tree, where he was in no danger.
After a time the boys became tired of this play, and when Sue, Sadie and Helen invited them to come to the "play-party," Bunny and his friends were pleased enough to come.
"And we're going to have real things to eat, and not make-believe ones,
Bunny," said Sue.
"That's good!" laughed George. "I'm glad you let me play with you."
The others were glad also, for George said he was sorry about the frogs, and would not play any more tricks.
Mrs. Brown gave the girls some more cookies, and Aunt Lu handed out some of her nice jam and jelly tarts. Then the girls set a little table, made of a box covered with paper, and the boys sat down to eat, pretending they were at a picnic.
On several days after this the children had good times in the yard of Bunny Brown and his sister Sue. It was now almost summer, and one morning Aunt Lu said: