“I’ll go get it,” offered Bunny.  “I’ll get it at Mrs. Golden’s.”

“I’ll go with you,” said Sue, and soon they were at the little corner grocery.

“How are you to-day, Mrs. Golden?” asked Bunny, as the old woman was getting the yeast cake he had been sent for.

“Oh, pretty well,” she answered, with a cheery smile on her kind but wrinkled face.  “I’d like it if I wasn’t so stiff, but then we can’t have all we want in this world.”

“We played store in our barn to-day,” said Sue, looking around at the various shelves filled with many articles.

“Did you, dearie?  That was nice.  I guess it’s easier to play store than it is to keep one really,” said Mrs. Golden.

“Oh, I’d like to keep store!” declared Bunny Brown.  “Only, how do you remember where everything is?” he asked.  “There’s such a lot of stuff!”

“Yes, there is,” agreed Mrs. Golden.  “And sometimes I forget.  But I’m getting old, I reckon.  There’s your yeast cake.  Now run along, and be careful when you cross the street.”

“Yes’m, we will!” promised Bunny, as he took Sue’s hand.

“Maybe, when vacation comes, Mrs. Golden will let us help her in her store,” said Bunny to his sister, as they neared their home.

“Oh, maybe!” Sue agreed.  “And it soon will be vacation, won’t it?”

“Yes,” said Bunny.  “I wonder where we’ll go this summer.”

“I wonder, too,” mused Sue.  “If we could stay at home and have a real store it would be fun!”

Bunny agreed to this.

Several days passed.  The hole in the school yard was filled up so there was no further danger of any of the boys or girls falling in.  Charlie did not again bring his toy auto to school.

But something else happened.

One afternoon Charlie Star walked home with Bunny and Sue from school.  Bunny had made a new sailboat, and he wanted Charlie to see it make the first voyage down the brook which ran back of the Brown home.

“May I come, too?” asked Sue, as Bunny carried his little vessel down to the stream.

“Sure, let her come,” advised Charlie.

“All right,” called Bunny, and Sue ran along after the boys.

But Bunny and Charlie were so interested in sailing the new boat that they did not pay much attention to Sue after reaching the brook.  They watched the wind puff out the sails and Charlie was just going to ask Bunny if he would trade the boat for the toy auto when there came a loud scream from Sue, who had wandered off by herself.

“Oh, Bunny!  I’ve falled in!  I’ve falled in!” cried Sue.

“Oh, she is in!” exclaimed Charlie, glancing upstream.

“And there’s a deep hole there!” shouted Bunny, darting away.  “Come on, Charlie!  Help me pull Sue out of the hole!”

CHAPTER IX

UP A LADDER

Charlie Star needed no second urging.  Bunny had forgotten all about his toy ship, but Charlie gave one look and saw that it had safely blown on shore.  Then Charlie sped after his chum.