"Here I is!" cried Sue, and up she popped. She had been stooping down so she would not be seen until just the right time.
"And where is the baby?" asked Mr. Punch, looking first on one side and then the other, of his big lobster claw nose.
"Here she is!" and Sue held up one of her old dolls.
"Ah, ha! Ah, ha!" said Mr. Punch. "She is a bad baby, and I am going to whip her!"
And then, with a stick, he hit the doll until some of the sawdust came flying out.
"Don't do that!" begged Sue. "You mustn't spoil my doll, Bunny!"
"I've got to do it," said Bunny in a whisper. "I have to, Sue, it's part of the show." But Sue took her doll away from her brother.
CHAPTER XXV
THE LOBSTER CLAW
"Don't, Sue, don't!" begged Bunny Brown. "I must have the doll. You said
I could take her," and he tried to pull the doll away from his sister.