?" asked Bunny of his sister. "Isn't he going to be
a fine zebra?"

He stood back from the box-stall where the calf was kept, so Sue could
see how the little animal looked.

"Doesn't he look pretty, Sue? Just like a circus zebra, only of course
they're not green. But isn't he nice?"

"Yes," said Sue, "he is pretty."

The calf, after jumping around some when Bunny first put the paint on,
was now standing very still, as though he liked it. Of course the calf
did not know that the paint would not wear off for a long time. Then,
too, the cow mother had put her head over from the next stall, where she
was tied, and she was rubbing her big red tongue on the calf's head. The
calf liked its cow mother to rub it this way, and maybe that is why the
little calf stood still.

"It's going to look real nice, Bunny," said Sue, as she looked at the
green stripes Bunny had put on. "I--I guess I'll let you put blue
stripes on my half of Splash, too. Then he'll look all over like a
tiger; won't he, Bunny?"

"Sure. I'm glad you'll let me, Sue. 'Cause a dog, only half striped,
would look funny. Now I'll see if I can put some stripes on the other
side of the calf."

Bunny tried to reach the side of the little animal he had not yet
painted, but he could not do it from where he stood.

"I'm going over in the stall with it," Bunny said. "You hand me the pail
of paint when I get there, Sue."

"Oh, Bunny! Are you going right in with the calf?"

"Yes."

"He--he'll bite you!"

"No, he won't. Calves haven't any teeth. They only eat milk, and they
don't have to chew that. They don't get teeth until they're big.

"I'm not afraid," said Bunny Brown, as he climbed over into the calf's
pen. Sue stood as near as she could, so Bunny could dip his brush in the
green paint. Bunny was careful not to get any on his own suit, or on
Sue's dress. That is he was as careful as any small boy could be. But,
even then, he did splash some of the paint on himself and on Sue. But
the children did not think of this at the time. They were so busy having
fun, turning a calf into a circus zebra.

[Illustration: THEY WERE BUSY TURNING A CALF INTO A CIRCUS ZEBRA.

_Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus_ _Page 84._]

Bunny had put a number of green stripes on one side of the calf, and now
he was ready to put some on the other. But the calf did not stand as
still with Bunny inside the stall with her, as when he had been outside.
The calf seemed frigh