“To meet Aunt Lu,” added Bunny.

“And we’re taking her some cake so she won’t be hungry for breakfast,” went on Sue.

“And bread,” Bunny continued.  “Maybe she don’t like cake, so I’m taking bread.”

“If she doesn’t eat the cake, we can,” Sue said, as if that was the easiest way out.

“Of course,” Bunny echoed.

Mrs. Brown sat down in a chair and began to laugh.  She had to sit down, for she laughed very hard indeed, and when she did that she used to shake in such a jolly fashion that, perhaps, she would have fallen if she had not been sitting in a chair.

“Oh, you children!” she said, when she had wiped the tears from her eyes with the corner of her apron.  She was not exactly crying, you know.  Only she laughed so hard that tears came into her eyes.  “You queer, dear little children!” she said.  “What are you going to do next?”

“Why, we’re going to the station as soon as I get the bread buttered, and Sue puts the cake in a bag,” Bunny said.  He did not seem to feel that anything was wrong.

“Oh, my dears, Aunt Lu’s train won’t be in for some time—­two or three hours,” said Mrs. Brown.  “And you know I’ve told you never to go down to the station alone.”

“Couldn’t you come with us?” asked Sue, eating a few of the cake crumbs.

“Or maybe papa,” added Bunny.  “If he can’t Bunker can.  Bunker knows the way to the station.”

“And Bunker likes cake, too,” Sue said.  “We might give him a piece, if Aunt Lu doesn’t want it.”

“No, no!  You musn’t give away my cake like that,” said Mrs. Brown.  “Now listen to me.  It will be hours before Aunt Lu will get here.  Then, perhaps, I may take you to the station to meet her.  But now I must dress you right and give you your breakfast.  Papa had his some time ago, as he had to go down to the bay to see about some boats.  I wondered why you were getting up so early.  Now put back the bread and cake and wait until I give you something to eat.”

A little later, rather disappointed at not being allowed to go off alone to meet their aunt, Bunny and Sue sat at the breakfast table.

“I wish the time would hurry up and come for Aunt Lu to be here,” Bunny said.

“So do I,” chimed in Sue.  “What fun we’ll have when Aunt Lu comes.”

“Indeed we will!” Bunny exclaimed.

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue lived with their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown, in the town of Bellemere.  That town was on Sandport Bay, which was part of the Atlantic Ocean, and the bay was a good place to catch fish, lobsters, crabs and other things that live in salt water.

Mr. Brown was in the boat business.  That is he owned many boats, some that sailed, some that went by steam or gasoline, and some that had to be rowed with oars.  These boats he hired out, or rented, to fishermen, and others who had to go on the bay, or even out on the ocean, when it was not too rough.