Lu said. "We'll go
back and find them."

She and her sister walked back, but they could not see Bunny and Sue.

"Oh, where are they?" cried Mrs. Brown. "My children are lost! Lost in
New York! Oh dear!"

CHAPTER XVII

AT THE POLICE STATION

Bunny Brown, and his sister Sue, standing in front of the window where
the monkeys and birds were, in cages, had forgotten all about Mother
Brown and Aunt Lu. All the children thought of was watching the funny
things the monkeys did, for there were three of the long-tailed animals
in one cage, and they seemed to be playing tricks on one another.

"Oh, Bunny!" said Sue, "this must be where the hand-organ men get their
monkeys."

"Maybe," Bunny agreed. "But hand-organ monkeys have red caps on, and
wear green coats, and these monkeys haven't anything on."

"Maybe they make caps and jackets for them from the birds' feathers,"
Sue said.

"Maybe," agreed Bunny. Certainly the feathers of the birds were red and
green, just the colors of the caps and jackets the monkeys wore.

"I wonder if the man would give us a monkey?" Sue said, as she pressed
her little nose flat against the window glass, so she would miss nothing
of what went on in the store.

"Maybe he would, or we could save up and buy one," Bunny answered.

"Monkeys don't cost much I guess. 'Cause hand-organ mens isn't very
rich, and they always have one. I'd like a parrot, too," said Sue.

"Yes, a parrot is better than a doll, for a parrot can talk."

"A parrot is not better than a doll!" Sue cried.

"Yes it is," said Bunny. "It's alive, too, and a doll isn't."

"Well, I can make believe my doll is alive," said Sue. "Anyhow, Bunny
Brown, you can't have a parrot or a monkey, 'cause Henry, the elevator
boy, won't let 'em come inside Aunt Lu's house."

"That's so," Bunny agreed. "Well, anyhow, we can go in and ask how much
they cost, and we can save up our money and buy one when we go home. We
aren't always going to stay at Aunt Lu's. And our dog, Splash, would
like a monkey and a parrot."

"Yes," said Sue, "he would. All right, we'll go in and ask how much they
is."

Hand in hand, never thinking about their aunt and their mother, Bunny
and Sue went into the animal store, in the window of which were the
monkeys and the parrots. Once inside, the children saw so many other
things--chickens, ducks, goldfish, rabbits, squirrels, pigeons and
dogs--that they were quite delighted.

"Why--why!" cried Sue, "it's