Punch does in the real show, but now Sue had changed
her mind.
"Oh, dear!" said Bunny, and he said it in such a funny way that everyone
laughed again.
"Let him take your doll, Sue dear," said her mother, from where she sat
on a box in the barn. "If he spoils it I will get you a new one. It's
only in fun, Sue," for Mrs. Brown did not want to see Bunny
disappointed.
"All right. You can take her, but don't hit her too hard," said Sue.
"I won't," promised her brother. And then the little show went on.
Mr. and Mrs. Punch had great times with the "baby," which was the
sawdust doll. Then Sue stooped down, out of sight, and turned herself
into a make-believe policeman, by putting on a hat, made out of black
paper, with a golden star pasted on in front. George Watson had made
that for her. Up popped Sue, the pretend policeman, to make Mr. Punch
stop hitting the sawdust doll baby.
"Go 'way! Go 'way!" cried Bunny Punch, in his squeaky voice, as he
tossed the doll out on the barn floor. "That's the way to do it! That's
the way I do it!"
Then Sue sang a little song, that Bunker had made up for her, and he
played the mouth organ.
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