Brown, hurrying in from the next room:
"Who's hurt?"
Sue was crying so hard that she could not answer, and Bunny was too
surprised to say anything for the moment. Mrs. Brown looked at the two
children. She saw Sue holding her nose in one hand, while Bunny's nose
was turning from white to red as the blood came back into it.
"Have you children been bumping noses again?" she asked. This was a game
Bunny and Sue sometimes played, though they had been told not to.
"No, Mother; we weren't 'zactly banging noses," explained Bunny. "We
were just seeing who could make the flattest one on the window, and Sue
bumped her nose too hard. I didn't do anything!"
"No, it--it wasn't Bun--Bunny's fault!" sobbed Sue. "I did it myself! I
was trying to--to flatter my nose more'n his!"
"You shouldn't play such games," said Mother Brown. "I'm sorry, Sue! Let
me see! Is your nose bleeding?" and she gently took the little girl's
hand down.
"Is--is--it?" asked Sue herself, stopping her sobs long enough to find
out if anything more than a bump had taken place.
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