“I don’t believe we’ll ever hear,” said Lucile with a sigh.

“It doesn’t seem so,” agreed her brother.  “I guess we’ll soon have to begin looking for another place with some show company on the road.  I have almost enough money saved to take us to New York.”

“Oh, but we can’t let you go yet a while,” said; Mr. Brown.  “I’m sure we’ll get some word of your relatives some day.  Meanwhile, we are glad to have you stay with us.  I like to have you work for me, Mart.”

“Well, I’m glad to work, of course.  But I feel that the theater is the place where I belong.  Of course, it’s harder work than in your office, but it’s what my sister and I have been brought up to.”

“I’m not going to hold you back,” said Mr. Brown, to the boy and girl performers.  “But stay here until after the holidays anyhow.  By that time the little play will be over and you can decide what you want to do.  Who knows?  Perhaps by then we may find not only your blind Uncle Bill, but your Uncle Simon and Aunt Sallie as well.”

But Mart and Lucile shook their heads.  They did not have much hope.  However, they were glad to help the children get ready for the farm play.

One afternoon, when Bunny and Sue came in from school and were getting ready to go to the hall to practice, they heard their doorbell ring loud and long.

“Oh, maybe that’s a telegram for us!” exclaimed Lucile.  She was always hoping for sudden good news.

“No, it’s Charlie Star,” said Bunny, who had gone to the door.  “Oh, come down and see what he’s got!” he cried, and Sue, Mart, and Lucile hastened down the stairs.

“What is it?” asked Sue, as she saw her brother and Charlie looking at something which Charlie held.  “Is it a mud turtle?”

“It’s tickets!” exclaimed Bunny.  “Tickets for our show!  Charlie printed ’em on his printing press!”

He held up for all to see a small square of pasteboard on which appeared: 

GRA TE SHOW
BY
BUNNY BWOWN aND HiS
SisTEER S*UE
CoMe 1 comE All and
sEE
“DO$N onTHE farn!! 
ADMISHION $25

CHAPTER XVI

UPSIDE DOWNSIDE BUNNY

For a few seconds Bunny, Sue, Mart and Lucile looked over the shoulders of one another at the ticket which Charlie Star had brought to show them.

“I didn’t know we were going to have real tickets!” exclaimed Bunny.  “This is lots more fun than I thought.”

“It’s just like a real show, with real tickets an’ everything!” exclaimed Sue.

“’Course that isn’t a very good ticket, yet,” explained Charlie.  “I just got it set up and there’s a couple mistakes in it.  I’ll have them fixed before the show.”

“Yes, I guess it would be better to have the mistakes fixed before you print the tickets for the show,” replied Mart, with a smile.  He knew something about show tickets, and he could see more mistakes in the one Charlie had made than could the young printer himself.