“How did you find us, Uncle Tad?” asked Sue, as their uncle led them along the now almost dark street toward their home.

“Why, when you didn’t come back your mother was worried,” the old soldier said.  “So your Aunt Lu started out one way after you, and I went the other.  As I passed this old house I saw a blue ribbon down by the gate and I thought it looked like yours, Sue.  So I thought you might have come in here.”

“Oh, did I lose my hair ribbon?” Sue asked, putting her hand to her head.  The big, pretty bow was gone, but Uncle Tad had found it.

“It’s a good thing you lost it,” said Bunny.  “If you hadn’t, Uncle Tad wouldn’t have known where to look for us.”

“Oh, I guess I should have found you after a bit,” Uncle Tad said, with a smile.  “But now we must hurry home, so the folks will know you are all right.”

And my, how Bunny and Sue were kissed and cuddled by their mother and Aunt Lu when Uncle Tad brought them back!  “I was beginning to be afraid,” said Mrs. Brown, “that you had gone down to the boat-dock, after I told you not to, and I was going to have your father and Bunker Blue look for you.”

“We didn’t mean to get locked in.  Mother,” explained Bunny.  “It was the wind.”

“Well, don’t go in empty houses again,” Aunt Lu said.

“Nope—­never!” promised Sue, “But we were looking for your ring, Aunt Lu, though we didn’t find it.”

“No, I’m afraid it’s gone forever,” said Miss Baker with a sigh, and a sad look.  “But it was very good of you to try to find it for me.”

The children sat down to supper, telling the big folks all about the adventure, and how they had become fastened in, and were afraid they would have to make a bed on the bags and stay all night.

“And if we had I’d have taken good care of Sue,” Bunny remarked.

“I know you would, my dear,” his mother answered, as she kissed him and his sister, before putting them to bed.

For a few days after this Bunny and Sue did nothing to make any trouble.  They went on little trips with Aunt Lu, showing her the many wonderful sights at the seaside.  With her they watched the fish boats come in, and once they went sailing with her and their mother, Bunker Blue taking charge of the boat.  They gathered pretty shells and pebbles on the beach and had many good times.

One day Bunny and Sue played Punch and Judy, Bunny wearing the big red lobster claw on his nose.  Aunt Lu laughed at the funny tricks of the children.

“Some day we’ll get up a real show, and charge money,” said Bunny, as he put away the lobster claw to use another time.

Not far from the Brown’s house was a small river that flowed into the bay.  Part of the Brown land was right on the edge of this river and at a small dock Mr. Brown kept, tied up, a rowboat which he sometimes used to go fishing in, or to go after crabs, which are something like lobsters, only smaller.  They are just as good to eat when they are cooked, and they turn red when you boil them.