Then all the children crowded around Bunny and Sue to look at the funny things the two children were wearing—­old clothes, pinned up, and with make-believe patches on them.

“Let me take your funny nose, Bunny,” begged Charlie Star.  “I want to see how it looks on me.”

Bunny handed over the lobster claw, but it dropped to the barn floor, and before either he or Charlie could pick it up, some one had stepped on it.

“Crack!” it went, for it was made of thin shell, not very strong.  And there it lay in pieces on the floor.

“Oh, dear” cried Charlie.  “I’ve broken your nose, Bunny!”

“Well, I’m glad it wasn’t my real one,” and Bunny put his hand up to his face, while Charlie stooped over to pick up the pieces of the lobster claw, hoping there was enough left to make a little nose for the next time.

And then suddenly Bunny, who was watching Charlie, gave a cry, and reached for something that glittered among the pieces of the red lobster claw.

“Oh, look! look!” fairly shouted the little fellow.  “It’s Aunt Lu’s diamond ring.  It was in the lobster claw, and it came out when the claw broke.  Oh, Aunt Lu!  I’ve found your diamond ring!”

Aunt Lu fairly rushed over to Bunny.  She took from his hand the shiny, glittering thing he had picked up from the barn floor.

“Yes, it is my lost diamond ring!” she cried.  “Oh, where was it?”

“Down inside the lobster claw, that I had on my nose,” Bunny said.  “Only I didn’t know it was there.”

“And no one would have known it if it had not broken,” said Mrs. Brown.  “How lucky to have found it.”

Aunt Lu slipped the diamond ring on her finger.  It glittered brighter than ever.

“I see how it all happened,” she said.  “That day when I was helping pick the meat out of the big lobster, my ring must have slipped from my hand, and fallen down inside the empty claw.  It went away down to the small end, and there it was held fast, just as Bunny’s foot was caught in the hollow tree one day.”

“Are you glad, Aunt Lu?” asked Bunny.

“Glad?  I’m more glad than I ever was in my life!” and she hugged and kissed him, and Sue also.

And everyone was glad Aunt Lu had found her ring.  The show was over now, and the children and grown folks went out of the barn.  They all said they had had a fine time.

That night Aunt Lu gave Bunny and Sue each a dollar, for she said Sue had done as much to find the ring as Bunny had.

“Oh, what a lot of money!” cried Sue, as she looked at her dollar.  “We’re rich now; aren’t we, Bunny?  As rich as Old Miss Hollyhock?”

“We’re richer!” answered Bunny.

“Well, save some of your money, and when you come to New York to visit me you can spend part of it in the city,” said Aunt Lu.

“We will,” promised Bunny Brown and his sister Sue.

But, before they visited Aunt Lu, the two children had other adventures.  I will be glad to tell you about them in the next book, which will be named:  “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa’s Farm.”  In that you may read what the two children did in the country, how they had a long automobile ride, and how they saw the Gypsies.