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had been on grandpa's farm since early
summer. Those of you who have read the first book in this series do not
need to be told who the children are. But there are some who may want

to hear a little about them.
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.
"I--I didn't mean to do it," said Bunny. "It--it just--happened. I--I
couldn't help it."
"No, I suppose not," said his mother. "But you must go and wash now.
Sue, I'll put a clean dress on you, and then I'll see if I can get the peach
stains off this one. You ought to have on an old apron."
A little later, Bunny and Sue, now nice and clean, were sitting on the
side porch. It was almost time for supper.
"Bunny," asked Sue, "did it hurt when you were playin' you were a
circus man only you weren't?"

"No, it didn't exactly hurt," he said slowly. "But it felt funny. Did I
really look like a circus man, Sue?"
"Yep. Just like one. Only, of course, you didn't have any nice pink suit
on, with spangles and silver and gold."
"Oh, no, of course not," agreed Bunny. "But did I swing by my feet?"
"Yes, Bunny, you did."
For a moment the little chap said nothing. Then he cried out:
"Oh, Sue! I know what let's do!"
"What?"
"Let's have a circus! It will be lots of fun! We'll get up a circus all by
ourselves! Will you help me make a circus?"
CHAPTER III
THE POOR OLD HEN
Sue looked at Bunny with widely-opened eyes. Then she clapped her
hands. Sue always did that when she