Bunny and Sue passed Mrs. Redden’s store.  In the window were the red, blue, green, yellow and other colored toy balloons that they had set out to buy.  Bunny and Sue still each had five cents, though it was in pennies now.

“Let’s get the balloons,” proposed Bunny.

“Oh, yes; let’s!” agreed Sue.

So they went in and bought them, letting them float in the air, high above their heads, by the strings to which the balloons were fastened.

Down the street came Aunt Lu.

“Well, children!” she cried.  “We were just getting worried about you.  Mother sent me to find you.  Where have you been?”

“We had a trolley ride,” explained Sue, “but Splash couldn’t get on the car, so we got off, and we were lost, and Splash found the path for us, and I’m hungry!”

“Bless your heart!  I should think you would be!” cried Aunt Lu.  “Come right home with me and I’ll get you some jam and bread and butter.”

And, a little later, Bunny and Sue were telling of their adventure.

“Oh, but you must never do that again!” said their mother.  “Never get in the trolley cars alone again!”

“We won’t!” promised Bunny and Sue.  But you just wait and see what happens.

Bunny Brown was out in the yard, a few days after the funny trolley ride, digging a hole.  Bunny had heard his father talk about a queer country called China, which, Mr. Brown said, was right straight down on the other side of the world, so that if one could possibly dig a hole all the way through the earth, one would come to China.

“I guess I’ll dig a hole,” thought Bunny Blown.  “Maybe I won’t go all the way to China, but I’ll dig a big hole, and see where it ends.  I’d like some China boys to play with.”

A little while before Bunny started to dig the hole his sister Sue had been playing in the yard with her dolls.  But, somehow or other, Bunny forgot all about Sue now.  He was taking the dirt out of the hole with his sand shovel when his mother came to the door and called: 

“Bunny, where is Sue?”

Bunny looked up from the pile of dirt in front of him.  He was standing down in the hole, throwing out the sand and the gravel, and wondering when he would get his first sight of that queer land of China.

“Why, Mother,” the little fellow answered, “Sue was here just now.  Maybe she has gone down to show Wango her new doll.”

“Oh, no, Sue wouldn’t go down there alone, Bunny.  See if you can find her.”

Bunny went to the front gate and looked up and down the street.

“I don’t see her, Mother,” he called back.

“Oh, dear!  I wonder where she can be?” said Mrs. Brown.

“I’ll find her,” Bunny said.  “Come on, Splash!” he called to his dog.  “We’re going to find Sue; she’s lost!”

“Wait!  Wait!  Come back!” cried Mrs. Brown.  “Don’t you run off and get lost again, Bunny!  I’ll go with you, and we’ll both find little sister.”