As for Bunny and Sue, they did not mind whether they fell or not.  Half the time they were tumbling down and the other half getting up again.  But they managed to do some sliding, too.

“Come on!” cried Bunny, after a bit.  “There’s enough now to make snowballs!”

“Could we make a snow house, too?” asked his sister.

“No, there isn’t enough for that.  But we can make snowballs and throw ’em!”

“Don’t throw any at me!” begged Sue. “‘Cause if you did, an’ the snow went down my neck, it would melt and I’d get wet an’ then I couldn’t go to the show an’ you’d be sorry!”

This was rather a long sentence for Sue, and she was a bit out of breath when she had finished.

“No, I won’t throw any snowballs at you,” promised Bunny.

“Oh, here come Harry Bentley and Charlie Star!” exclaimed Sue.

“I’ll throw snowballs at them!” decided Bunny.  “Hi!” he called to two of his boy chums.  “Let’s throw snowballs!”

“We’re with you!” answered Charlie.

“I’m not going to play snowball fight,” decided Sue.  “I see Mary Watson and Sadie West.  I’m going to play with them.”

So she trotted off to make little snow dolls with her girl friends, while Bunny, with Charlie and Harry, threw soft snowballs at one another.  The children were having such fun that it seemed only a few minutes since breakfast when Mrs. Brown called: 

“Bunny!  Sue!  Come in and get washed for lunch.  And you have to get dressed if you’re going to the play!”

“Oh, we’re going, sure!” exclaimed Bunny.  “Are you?” he asked Charlie and Harry.

“Yes,” they replied, and when Sue ran toward her house with Bunny she told her brother that Sadie and Mary were also going to the play that afternoon in the town Opera House.

“Oh, we’ll have a lot of fun!” cried Bunny.  “Will it be a funny play?” he asked Uncle Tad, who had promised to take the two children.

“Well, I guess it’ll be funny for you two youngsters,” was the answer of the old soldier.  “But I guess it isn’t much of a theatrical company that would come to Bellemere to give a show so near the beginning of winter.  But it will be all right for boys and girls.”

“It’s a show for the benefit of our Red Cross Chapter,” said Mrs. Brown.  “That’s why I asked you to take the children, Uncle Tad.  I have to be with the other ladies of the committee, to help take tickets and look after things.”

“Oh, I’ll look after Bunny and Sue!” exclaimed Uncle Tad.  “I’ll see that they have a good time!”

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were so excited because of the first snow storm and because of thinking of the play they were to see, that they could hardly dress.  But at last they were ready, and they set off in the family automobile, which Uncle Tad drove.  Mrs. Brown went along also, but Mr. Brown had to stay at the office.  The office was at the dock where he owned a fish and boat business.