"
So Bunny and Sue called as loudly as they could, but neither Mr. Brown,
his wife, Bunker nor Uncle Tad answered. They had taken a walk back in
the woods, when Tom started to wash the dishes, and when Bunny and Sue
were playing house in the leafy bower, and they had gone farther than
they intended. So they could not hear Bunny and Sue calling.
"It's no use," said Bunny, after a bit. "We've got to save him
ourselves, Sue. But I wonder how we can do it."
Sue thought for a minute. She did not rub her nose as Bunny had done.
She could think without doing that. Then Sue said:
"If we only had a string on the boat, Bunny, we could pull Tom right to
us. We could stand on shore and pull him in, just as we did with your
little sail boat."
"That's right--we could!" cried Bunny. Then he called:
"Tom, has you got a rope on your boat? If you has throw it to me and
Sue, and we'll pull you in by it."
Tom looked in the bottom of the boat.
"There's a rope here," he said, "but it isn't long enough to reach to
shore."
He held it up so the children could see. Certainly it was not half long
enough.
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