“Why, Bunny Brown!  Have you forgotten?” asked Sue, with a queer look in her brown eyes.  “Don’t you remember Aunt Lu is coming to visit us to-day, and we’re going down to the station to meet her?”

“Oh yes!  That’s so!  I did forget all about it!” Bunny said.  “I guess it was because I dreamed so hard in the night, Sue.  I dreamed I had a new rocking-horse, and he ran away with me, up-hill—­”

“Rocking-horses can’t run away,” Sue said, shaking her head, the hair of which needed brushing, as it had become “tousled” in her sleep.

“Well, mine ran away, in my dream, anyhow!” declared Bunny.

“They can’t run up hill, even in dreams,” insisted Sue.  “Horses have to walk up hill.  Grandpa’s always do.”

“Maybe not in dreams,” Bunny said.  “And I really did dream that, Sue.  And I’m glad you woke me up, for I want to meet Aunt Lu.”

“Then let’s hurry and get dressed,” Sue went on.  “Maybe we can run down to the station before breakfast.  Aunt Lu will be hungry, and we can show her the way to our house.”

“That’s so,” agreed Bunny.  “But maybe we’d better take a piece of bread and butter down to the station for her,” he added, after thinking about it for a few seconds.

“Or a piece of cake,” added his sister.

“We’ll take both!” exclaimed the blue-eyed, chubby little chap.  Then he began to dress.  Sue, who had gone back into her own little room, had almost finished putting on her clothes, but, as her dress buttoned up the back, she had to come in and ask Bunny to fasten it for her.  This he was ready to do as soon as he had pulled on his stockings and little knickerbockers.

“Shall I start at the top button, or the bottom one, Sue?” he asked, as he stood behind his sister.

“It doesn’t matter,” said Sue, “as long as you get it buttoned.  But hurry, Bunny.  We don’t want the train to get in, and Aunt Lu get off, with us not there to meet her.  Hurry!”

“All right—­I will,” and Bunny began buttoning the dress.  But soon a queer look came over his face.  “Aren’t you done?” asked Sue, as he stopped using his fingers.

“Yes, I’m done, Sue, but I’ve got two buttons left over, and there’s only one buttonhole to put ’em in!  What’ll I do?” Bunny was quite puzzled.

“Oh, you must have buttoned me wrong, Bunny,” Sue said.  “But never mind.  Nobody will notice so early in the morning.  Now come on down stairs, and we’ll get the bread and cake.”

The children went to the dining room, where the table was set for breakfast, and Sue was cutting off a rather large slice from a cake she had found in the pantry, while Bunny was putting twice as much butter on a slice of bread as was needed, when their mother’s voice exclaimed: 

“Why, Bunny Brown!  Sue!  What in the world are you children doing?  Up so early, too, and not properly dressed!  Why did you get up?  The idea!”

“We’re going to the station,” Sue said.  It really was her idea.  She had thought of it the night before, when their mother had told them her sister (the children’s Aunt Lu) would arrive in the morning.  “We’re going to the station,” said Sue.