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CHAPTER XV
THE OLD HERMIT
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue had been lost before, several times. Maybe that is why Sue was not so frightened now, when Bunny spoke as he did. As for the little boy, he seemed more tired than worried.
"Yes, Sue,*' he said again. "I guess we're lost. I've looked all over, and I can't see the hill where we picked the strawberries, nor the field where we got the raspberries."
"I can't either," said Sue. "And I wish we had some berries. Bunny."
"Why?"
"'Cause I'm hungry right now again."
"Well, you can eat these, Sue. I don't want 'em."
Bunny Brown was hungry himself, and he did want some of the berries very much. But there were, now, only a few left in the pail,
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