“Course not!” Bunny cried.  “She’s company.  ’Sides, we’re making the show for her, so she won’t be so sad about her ring.”

“I wish we could find it for her,” Sue sighed.

“So do I,” came from Bunny.  “But I guess we never shall.  Now we must go and tell Sadie and Helen and the others about the show.”

“Are they going to be in it?” asked his sister.

“No, they won’t be Mr. or Mrs. Punch, but we want them to buy tickets and come.”

“How much are tickets?”

Bunny thought for a moment.

“We’ll charge pins and money—­money for the big folks, pins for children.”

“That will be nice,” said Sue, “’cause children can always get pins off their mothers’ cushions, but they can’t always get money.  What will we do with the pins, Bunny?”

“Sell ’em.  Mother will buy ’em, or maybe Aunt Lu will.  No,” he said quickly, “Aunt Lu is company, and we don’t want her to buy pins.  We’ll give her all she wants for nothing.”

“And what will we do with the money, Bunny?”

“We’ll give it to Old Miss Hollyhock, same as we did the lemonade money.  Then she’ll sure be rich.”

“That will be nice,” Sue murmured.

The first thing to do was to tell the other children about the coming Punch and Judy show.  This Bunny and Sue did, going to the different houses of their playmates.  Everyone thought the idea was just too fine for anything.

“I’ll lend you some of my old dresses, Sue, so you can look real funny, like Mrs. Punch,” said Sadie.

“And I have a red hat I got at a surprise party,” said Helen.  “You can have that.”

“Thanks,” laughed Sue.  “Oh, I know we’ll have fun.”

Harry and Charlie said they would help Bunny.

“But making the box-place, like a little theatre, where Mr. Punch stands, is going to be hard,” Harry said, shaking his head.

“I’ll get Bunker Blue to help us,” said Bunny.  “We could ask Uncle Tad, but we don’t want any of the folks to know what it is going to be until it’s time for the show.”

“Oh, Bunker can make the little theatre, all right,” Charlie said.  “And we can help him.”

“George Watson would like to help,” suggested Harry.  “He has been real nice since he let the frogs loose on us.”

“We’ll ask him, too,” decided Bunny.

Bunker Blue was very glad to help the children build a Punch and Judy show.

“And I won’t tell anyone a thing about it,” he promised.  “We’ll keep it for a surprise.”

Bunker was just the best one Bunny could have thought of to help.  For Bunker worked around Mr. Brown’s boats, and could get pieces of wood, boards, nails and sail-cloth, to make a little curtain for the tiny theatre where Bunny would pretend to be Mr. Punch.

The day after Bunny and Sue had thought of the plan to make Aunt Lu not so sad, by giving a little entertainment for her, the children went out in the barn to practise.  Their playmates came over to help, though there was not much for them to do, since Bunny and Sue (and more especially Bunny) were to be the “whole show.”