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Hope, Laura Lee

"Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store"

Splash, the big dog, was
content to sleep in the store while the children were there.
"Now for the other window," said Bunny to Sue, when the oatmeal was all
in place, with the low price plainly marked on cards stuck here and
there.
"We have to wait for Charlie," Sue said.
"He's coming now," observed Bunny, looking from the door. No customers
had come in while the children were busy fixing the window, and they
were just as well satisfied. They hoped for a rush of trade when the
shades were raised.
Charlie came in with the covered basket, and the next fifteen minutes
were busy ones for the children. Mrs. Golden had fallen asleep and did
not come out of the back room to see what they were doing.
"Well, we're all ready now," said Bunny, at last. "Pull up the shades!"
He and Charlie did this. The sun shone in through the newly cleaned
windows and lit up such a display as never before had been seen in Mrs.
Golden's store.


CHAPTER XX
IN THE FLOUR BARREL

Slowly the heavy green shades, which hid what was in the cleaned windows
from the sight of persons in the street, rolled up.


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