NAUGHTY MISS BUNNY.

THE BUTLER SURPRISES BUNNY.

NAUGHTY MISS BUNNY

A STORY

FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.

BY

CLARA MULHOLLAND

Author of "The Little Bog-trotters," &c.

LONDON

BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
GLASGOW AND DUBLIN

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

NAUGHTY MISS BUNNY.

CHAPTER I.

ONLY FOR FUN.

ow nice!" cried Bunny. "Mama has sent for Miss Kerr, so I can do exactly as I like for a little while. I am very glad papa brought us up here, for it is so pretty and so cool, and these gardens are so lovely;" and she gazed about her at the garden and the lawn and then at the distant sea that lay just beyond them, sparkling and dancing in the sunshine. "If I had no governess," continued the little girl, "and no lessons, and no nasty nurse to say, 'Sit still, Miss Bunny,' and 'Don't make dirty your frock, Miss Bunny,' I think I should be jolly—yes, that's papa's word, jolly. But, oh dear, big people are so happy, for they can do what they like, but chindrel must do everything they are told." And quite forgetting her pretty white frock and dainty sash, and the many orders she had received not on any account to soil them, she lay back comfortably upon the grass.

Bunny, whose real name was Ethel Dashwood, was