"What--what's the matter?" Bunny asked, for Sue had a funny look on her
face.
"I found Mrs. Gordon's hen's nest," answered the little girl, "and I'm
right in it!"
"In what?" Bunny wanted to know.
"In the nest. I'm sitting in it--right on the eggs, just like a hen.
Only," said Sue, and the funny look on her face changed into a sort of
smile, "only I--I've broken all the eggs!"
And that is just what she had done.
Oh! how Sue was covered with the whites and yellows of the eggs!
She had slid down the haymow on a side where she and Bunny did not often
play, and she had slid right into the hen's nest. The children had not
thought of looking there for it.
But Sue had found it.
Slowly she stood up. She and Bunny looked into the nest And, just as Sue
had said, all the eggs were broken.
"Oh, it's too bad!" the little girl exclaimed. "Mrs. Gordon will be so
sorry."
"You couldn't help it," declared Bunny, "You--you just slid into 'em!"
"Yes," went on Sue. "I didn't see the nest at all, but I heard the eggs
break, and there I was, sitting there on them just like a hen.
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