“With lots of snow and ice, Mother?” asked Bunny.

“Yes.  And with cold weather that isn’t good for poor folks.”

“Oh, I’m glad!” cried Bunny.  “Not about the poor folks, though,” he added quickly, as he saw his mother look at him in surprise.  “But I’m glad there’ll be lots of ice.  Sue and I can go skating.”

“And there’ll be lots of ice for ice-cream next summer,” added Sue.

Mrs. Brown laughed.  Then, as she saw Bunny racing to the window with Sue, to push aside the curtains and look out at the falling white flakes, she said: 

“Come back and finish your breakfast, Bunny.  I want to clear off the table.”

“I want to see the snow, first,” replied the little boy.  “Anyhow, I guess I’ve had enough cakes.”

“Oh, and I just brought in some nice, hot, brown ones!” exclaimed Mrs. Brown.

“I’ll help eat ’em!” offered Sue, and though she had had her breakfast a little while before, she now ate part of a second one, helping her brother.

It was Saturday, and, as there was no school, Mrs. Brown had allowed both children to sleep a little later than usual.  Sue had been up first, and, after eating her breakfast and playing around the house, she had gone to the window to look out and wish that Bunny would get up to play and have fun with her.

Then she had seen the first snow of the season and had run into the dining room to find her brother there eating his late meal.

“May we go out in the snow and play?” asked Bunny, when he had finished the last of the brown cakes and the sweet syrup.

“Yes, if you put on your boots and your warm coats.  You don’t want to get cold, you know, or you can’t go to the play in the Opera House this afternoon.”

“Oh, we’ve got to see that!” cried Bunny.  “I ’most forgot; didn’t you, Sue?”

“Yes,” replied the little girl, “I did.  Maybe it will snow so hard that they can’t have the show, like once it rained so hard we couldn’t play circus in the tent Grandpa put up for us in the lot.”

“Yes, it did rain hard,” agreed Bunny.  “And it’s snowing hard,” he added, as he squirmed into his coat and again looked out of the window.  “Will it snow so hard they can’t give the show, Mother?” he asked.

“Oh, I think not,” answered Mrs. Brown.  “This play isn’t going to be in a tent, you know.  It’s in the Opera House, and they give shows there whether it rains or snows.  I think you may both count on going to the show this afternoon.”

“Oh, what fun!” cried Bunny.

“Lots of fun!” echoed Sue.

Then out they ran to play amid the swirling, white flakes; and it is hard to say whether they had more fun in the first snow or in thinking about the play they were to see in the Opera House that afternoon.

At any rate Bunny Brown and his sister Sue certainly had fun playing out in the yard of their house and in the street in front.  At first there was not snow enough to do more than make slides on the sidewalk, and the little boy and girl did this for a time.  They made two long slides, and men and women coming along smiled to see the brother and sister at play.  But these same men and women were careful not to step on the slippery slides made by Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, for they did not want to slip and fall.