In the first book, named “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue,” I told you how the children, with their father and mother, lived in the town of Bellemere, on Sandport bay, near the ocean.  Mr. Brown was in the boat business, and many fishermen hired boats from him.

Aunt Lu came from New York to visit Mrs. Brown, the mother of Bunny and Sue, and while on her visit Aunt Lu lost her diamond ring.  Bunny found it in an awfully funny way, when he was playing he was Mr. Punch, in the Punch and Judy show.

In the second book, “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa’s Farm,” I told you how the Brown family went to the country in a big automobile, in which they lived just as Gypsies do.  They even slept in the big automobile van.

And when Bunny and Sue reached grandpa’s farm, after a two days’ trip, what fun they had!  You may read all about it in the book.  And Bunny and Sue did more than just have fun.

The children helped find grandpa’s horses, that had been taken away by the Gypsies.  The horses were found at the circus, where Bunny and Sue went to see the elephants, tigers, lions, camels and ponies.  They also saw the men swinging on the trapeze, high up in the big tent.

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue always wanted to be doing something.  If it was not one thing it was another.  They often got lost, though they did not mean to.  Sometimes their dog Splash would find them.

Splash was a fine dog.  He pulled Sue out of the water once, and she called him Splash because he “splashed” in so bravely to get her.

In Bellemere, where Bunny and Sue lived, they had many friends.  Every one in town loved the children.  Even Wango, the queer monkey pet of Mr. Winkler, the old sailor, liked Bunny and Sue.

But they had not seen Wango for some time now; not since coming to the farm in the country.  They had seen a trained bear, which a man led around by a string.  The bear climbed a telegraph pole, and did other tricks.  Bunny and Sue thought he was very funny.  But they did not like him as much as they did the cunning little monkey at home in Bellemere.

Carrying the basket of peaches on his arm, and leading the children, Grandpa Brown walked back to the house.  Mrs. Brown, the mother of Bunny and Sue, watched them come up the walk.

“Oh, Sue!” cried her mother.  “Look at your dress!  What did you spill on it?”

“I—­I guess it’s peach juice, Mother.  It dripped all over.  But Bunny hung upside down in the tree, just like the man in the circus, only he wasn’t.”

I guess Sue was glad to talk about something else beside the peach juice stains on her dress.

“What—­what happened?” asked Mother Brown, looking at grandpa.  “Did Bunny——?”

“That’s right,” he said, laughing.  “Bunny was hanging, upside down, in a tree.  But he wasn’t hurt, and I soon lifted him down.”

“Oh, what will those children do next?” asked their mother.