animal-man.
Bunny shook his head. So did Sue.
"Our elevator boy is named Henry," Bunny said.
The animal-man laughed.
"I guess there are a good many elevator boys named Henry, in New York,"
he said. "I'll just tell the police that I have two lost children here.
They'll come and get you, and take you home. Maybe your aunt and mother
have already been at the police station looking for you."
It took only a little while for the kind man to telephone to the same
police station where Aunt Lu and Mother Brown had been. Of course they
were not there then.
But soon a kind policeman came and took Bunny and Sue to the police
station, leading them by the hand. Bunny and Sue thought it was fun, and
persons in the street smiled at the sight. They knew two lost children
had been found.
"What are your names, little ones?" asked the policeman behind the big
brass railing, when the two tots were led into the station house.
"I'm Bunny Brown, and this is my sister Sue," spoke up the little boy.
"We're lost, and so is our mother and our Aunt Lu."
"Well, you won't be lost long," said the officer with a laugh. "Your
mother and aunt have been here looking for you, but they've gone home.
I'll telephone them you are here, and they'll come and get you."
And that's just what happened. Bunny and Sue sat in the back room, with
the other lost children, though there were not so many now, for two of
them--the crying ones--had been taken away by their mothers. And, pretty
soon, along came Aunt Lu's big automobile, and in that Bunny and Sue
were ready to be taken safely home.
Then Aunt Lu rode past the kind animal-man's place, and she and Mother
Brown thanked him for his care of the children.
"We couldn't have a monkey and a parrot, could we, Mother?" asked Bunny,
as they left the animal store.
"No, dear. I'm afraid not."
"I didn't think we could," Bunny went on. "But when we get back home,
where Henry, the elevator boy, can't see 'em, Sue and I is going to have
a monkey and a parrot."
CHAPTER XIX
BUNNY FLIES A KITE
Mother Brown and Aunt Lu laughed when Bunny said this. Bunny's and Sue's
mother and aunt were glad to have the children safely with them again.
They were soon at Aunt Lu's home.
"Whatever made you two children go into that animal store?" asked Mrs.
Brown. "Aunt Lu and I thought you were right behind us, going to take
the boat for Coney Island. Now we can't go."
"We can go some other day," dec
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