y knew what it meant.

"Sue, are you going to cry?" he asked, coming to a stop after they had
walked on a little way. "Are you going to cry--real?"

"I--I was, Bunny," she answered. "Don't you want me to?"

"No, I don't!" he said, very decidedly. "It's of no use to cry, 'cause
you can't find your house that way, and it makes your nose hurt. Don't
cry, Sue."

"All right, I won't," bravely agreed the little girl. "I won't cry real,
I'll just cry make-believe."

And then and there some tears rolled out of her eyes, down her cheeks,
and dropped on the ground. Sue also "sniffled" a little, and she seemed
to be holding back gasping, choking sounds in her throat.

Bunny looked at her in some surprise. He saw the salty tears on her
cheeks.

"That's awful like real crying, Sue," he said.

"Well, it isn't. It's only _make-believe_, like--like the crying we saw
the lady do in the mov-movin' pictures!" exclaimed Sue, choking back
what was really a real sob. "I'm only making believe," she went on. "But
if we don't stop being lost pretty soon, Bunny, maybe I'll have to cry
real."

"Well," answered the little boy, with a sigh, as he took a firmer hold
of Sue's hand, "maybe you will."

[Illustration: BUNNY AND SUE GET LOST IN THE WOODS.

_Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove._ _Page 154_]

Then the children walked on together, making their way through the dark
Christmas woods. They really did not know where they were going. It was
some time since Bunny had glimpsed a sight of the bungalow.

All at once, as they walked along, they heard the distant bark of a dog.
At once Sue stood still and pulled her brother to a stop also.

"Bunny! did you hear that?" she asked.

"Yes," he replied, "I did. It's nothing but a dog, and he's a good way
off, 'cause his bark was real little."

"But, Bunny! maybe it's the dog that took mother's pocketbook and ring,"
Sue went on. "If it is we ought to chase him!" She was forgetting her
fear of being lost now in the excitement over hearing the dog bark and
in thinking he might be the one that had caused the loss of the diamond
ring.

"Listen!" whispered Bunny.

He and Sue stood in the fast-darkening woods and to their ears the bark
of the dog sounded fainter now.

"He's going away," announced Bunny. "Anyhow, I don't s'pose he was the
same dog. That dog never could get away up here. It must be some other
one."

"Well, maybe it is," agreed Sue. "Oh, Bunny, when are we