Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's

w porch. He had heard the sobbing voice of Rose. "Has a

e Grandma gave me! I dropped it in the sand, I guess, whe

nd look around for your locket. It may have dropped on the sand right where you are. S

e her gold locket. And she wanted very much to get it back, as it was a present from Grandma Bell, and Rose liked it more than any of her other gifts. She did not often wear it, b

after supper and when she came out in the evening to dig in the sand with Ru

ely locket is g

get it for you,"

ing toward them waving his pocket electric light. He usually carried it with him to pe

it on you last?" asked Daddy B

d to dig with the clam shells

that?" her

two little piles of sand near some

we dug for go

't find any,

u dig-or to-morrow,

" inquir

e Brown's father did find some on a desert island. But if Rose dropped her locket here, there is surely gold, for the locket wa

ce of jewelry she liked so much? It was hard to find things, once they were buried in the sand, Rose knew, for t

was digging the deep hole," thought Rose; "and t

he flashed his light about the sand piles made by R

are doing. I thought perhaps the locket might lie on top of the sand, and that I cou

locket," sighed

I can, in the morning, when the sun shines. Just now there are so m

out here all alone in

t be picked up, for no one will be able to see it any more than I. And I don't believe many persons come down here after dark.

might get it," sai

oysters, but they do not care for gold lockets.

Mrs. Bunker, as well as Cousin Tom and his wife, felt sorry on hearing of Rose's loss

ght about it the last thing before she fell asleep. But she slumbered very soundly,

e ran down on the sand. Her father was ahead of her, though, and, with a rake in his h

ren hunted for gold?" asked Mr. B

ere right there when I didn't have my

raked over the sand as carefully as

wn into the hole

It's queer, but the locket

up and took it down i

e yet. But it is rather a large place, and perhaps I am not

ith the rake, but no locket showed. Then others looked, including the chi

r. "There is gold in this sand now if there

find it," said the little g

e house," suggested Cousin Ruth. "I'l

ch was a careful one, and though the sand was go

every day until I

help!" a

hildren, when they knew what a loss had c

was, it turned out to be most delightful. Seaview was a fine place to spend the end of the summer, and Cousin Tom and his wife

ocket!" sighed Rose

rl's mind. She did not speak of it often, though sometimes when she went down on the beach, near the holes she and

ny places, it is hard to know whether, after t

old locket, and, whenever any one thought of it, he or she

ng and swimming, they could play in the sand, they could sail toy boats in t

her or his nephew fished. Once Russ held the pole and he caught a funny, flat fish, that seemed

d Violet, when she saw it flappin

der," answere

good

very

locket. Do you think so, Da

on't ask so many q

riddle?" Laddie

," laughed his fa

going to be about a flounder and a wringer, but

et!" laughe

st her locket and it had not been fou

beach. I know how w

e do?" aske

e and have a play p

he

e can build a ho

nd pails. Their mother watched them, thinking how nice

gether to make a sand house that Mrs. Bunker, who was just thinking of

Come quick!" she

atter?" cried

s. "Rose is in the sand house

ened, Mrs. Bunker set off