Part 33 (1/2)

”Oh, yes,” Uncle Tad a.s.sured him. ”I'll wash this and iron it and make it look like new.” And this he did a little later.

The old pocketbook was tossed overboard. It sank in a circle of rainbow colors, caused by the oil on it, and as the boat started off again Mrs.

Brown looked joyfully at her diamond ring so strangely recovered.

”I see how it must have happened,” said Mr. Ravenwood, as they landed at the dock. ”Sandy must have had the pocketbook in his mouth when he leaped aboard my boat, but I didn't notice it, as my back was turned. He must have dropped it inside the engine box, which was open, and it has been there ever since. To-day it worked its way under the wheel and stopped the machinery, or I might not have found it until I laid the boat up for the winter, when I always take the engine out to clean it.”

”I think that is how it really did happen,” said Mrs. Slater. ”Sandy, you were a bad dog to take the pocketbook!” and she shook her finger at him. Sandy hung his head for a moment, but he was soon wagging his tail joyfully as Bunny, Sue, and Harry petted him.

And so Mrs. Brown's pocketbook and diamond ring, so strangely taken away, were found again. Sandy did not drop the purse in the carpenter shop, as was supposed. He carried it out again in his mouth, and kept it until he leaped aboard the boat, when he dropped it.

Mr. Ravenwood looked at the box in the woodshed, declaring it to be the one that had been lost overboard in the storm.

”So each one has his own again,” said the young pattern-maker. ”I have my box, Harry has his dog, and Mrs. Brown has her diamond ring.”

There was much rejoicing, as you may imagine, and when Daddy Brown came up that night he had to hear the whole story over and over again.

Mr. Ravenwood departed that evening, taking his box with him and promising to call and see the Browns in Bellemere when they returned home.

But the joyous days at Christmas Tree Cove were not yet over. Many happy times followed, and Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were in the midst of them. They had some adventures, also, but every one agreed that the one of the lost and found diamond ring and dog was the most remarkable. And now, for a time, we shall take leave of our little friends, perhaps to meet them again in new scenes.

_This Isn't All!_

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THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES

By LAURA LEE HOPE

Author of the Popular ”Bobbsey Twins” Books, Etc.

Durably Bound. Ill.u.s.trated. Uniform Style of Binding.

Each Volume Complete in Itself.