"And where is the baby?" asked Mr. Punch, looking first on one side and
then the other, of his big lobster claw nose.
"Here she is!" and Sue held up one of her old dolls.
"Ah, ha! Ah, ha!" said Mr. Punch. "She is a bad baby, and I am going to
whip her!"
And then, with a stick, he hit the doll until some of the sawdust came
flying out.
"Don't do that!" begged Sue. "You mustn't spoil my doll, Bunny!"
"I've got to do it," said Bunny in a whisper. "I have to, Sue, it's part
of the show." But Sue took her doll away from her brother.
CHAPTER XXV
THE LOBSTER CLAW
"Don't, Sue, don't!" begged Bunny Brown. "I must have the doll. You said
I could take her," and he tried to pull the doll away from his sister.
But Sue did not want to give up even an old doll.
"You mustn't knock out all her sawdust," she said. "She'll get sick."
Bunny did not know what to do. It seemed as if his Punch and Judy show
would be spoiled, and he did so want to make Aunt Lu feel jolly about
it.
Sue had really said, at first, that he could beat her old doll with a
stick, just as Mr.
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