and look
at the seals."

"All right--I'll have a fish in a minute," Bunny said, hopefully.

But he did not. The fish would not bite. Bunny wanted to catch
something, and, all at once, he decided that if he could not get a fish
he might get a turtle, or a small alligator. But he did not tell Sue
what he was going to do, for he knew she would not like it. She was
afraid of alligators and turtles.

Bunny pulled his line from the fish-pool and tossed the pin-hook over
into the turtle-pool. And then something happened, all at once! There
was a rush through the water, as a big turtle saw the fluttering rag,
and the next minute Bunny was nearly pulled over the low railing into
the pool. For the turtle had swallowed his bent pin hook.

"Oh, Sue! I've got one! I've got one!" cried Bunny, shouting out loud,
he was so excited.

"Have you got a fish, Bunny?" asked Sue, who had walked a little way
over toward the seal-pool.

"No, I haven't got a fish, but I've got a turtle. But I won't let him
hurt you, Sue!" he called. "Oh, I've got a big one! Look, Sue!"

Bunny was holding tightly to the string. He had wound it about his
hands, and as the cord was a strong one, and as the turtle had swallowed
the bent-pin hook on the other end, Bunny was almost being pulled over
into the tank full of water, where the alligators and other turtles were
now swimming about, very much excited, because the turtle which Bunny
had caught was making such a fuss.

"Oh, I've got him! I've got him!" cried Bunny, eagerly.

"I rather think he has got _you_!" said a man, rushing up to Bunny just
in time to grab him. The little fellow's feet were being lifted off the
floor and, in another few seconds, he himself was in danger of being
pulled into the pool. For the cord was a strong one, and the turtle was
one of the largest.

"Let go the string!" called the man who had hold of Bunny. "Let go the
string!"

Bunny did so, and the turtle swam away with it.

By this time Mother Brown and Aunt Lu, who had heard Bunny's calls, had
rushed over to him. Others, too, left the seals, to see what was the
excitement at the turtle and alligator pool.

"Oh, Bunny! What have you done?" cried his mother.

"I--I was catching a fish," Bunny explained, as the man who had stopped
him from being pulled into the pool, set the little fellow down. "I was
catching a fish and--"

"But you musn't catch any fish in _here_!" exclaimed one of the men in
uniform, who was on