d iron it and make
it look like new." And this he did a little later.

The old pocketbook was tossed overboard. It sank in a circle of rainbow
colors, caused by the oil on it, and as the boat started off again Mrs.
Brown looked joyfully at her diamond ring so strangely recovered.

"I see how it must have happened," said Mr. Ravenwood, as they landed at
the dock. "Sandy must have had the pocketbook in his mouth when he
leaped aboard my boat, but I didn't notice it, as my back was turned. He
must have dropped it inside the engine box, which was open, and it has
been there ever since. To-day it worked its way under the wheel and
stopped the machinery, or I might not have found it until I laid the
boat up for the winter, when I always take the engine out to clean it."

"I think that is how it really did happen," said Mrs. Slater. "Sandy,
you were a bad dog to take the pocketbook!" and she shook her finger at
him. Sandy hung his head for a moment, but he was soon wagging his tail
joyfully as Bunny, Sue, and Harry petted him.

And so Mrs. Brown's pocketbook and diamond ring, so strangely taken
away, were found again. Sandy did not drop the purse in the carpenter
shop, as was supposed. He carried it out again in his mouth, and kept it
until he leaped aboard the boat, when he dropped it.

Mr. Ravenwood looked at the box in the woodshed, declaring it to be the
one that had been lost overboard in the storm.

"So each one has his own again," said the young pattern-maker. "I have
my box, Harry has his dog, and Mrs. Brown has her diamond ring."

There was much rejoicing, as you may imagine, and when Daddy Brown came
up that night he had to hear the whole story over and over again.

Mr. Ravenwood departed that evening, taking his box with him and
promising to call and see the Browns in Bellemere when they returned
home.

But the joyous days at Christmas Tree Cove were not yet over. Many happy
times followed, and Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were in the midst of
them. They had some adventures, also, but every one agreed that the one
of the lost and found diamond ring and dog was the most remarkable. And
now, for a time, we shall take leave of our little friends, perhaps to
meet them again in new scenes.

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