g a play-party, with broken pieces of dishes on a box, same as me
and Bunny plays sometimes. We watched them, and I guess they thought we
was makin' fun of 'em."

"Yes," said Bunny, "that's what they did."

"But we wasn't makin' fun," said Sue. "We just wanted to watch, and when
they saw us I asked them to come here to-morrow to a _real_ party."

"Oh, Sue, you never did!" cried her mother.

"Yes'm, I did," returned Sue. "I gave 'em Aunt Lu's card, and they're
coming, and we're going to have _real_ cake and _real_ ice-cream. That
one girl can cook real, or make-believe, sausages, but we don't need to
have _them_, 'less you want to, Aunt Lu! Only I think it would be nice
to have some jam tarts, and I'd like one now, please."

Aunt Lu and Mrs. Brown again looked at one another. First they smiled,
and then they laughed.

"Well," said Aunt Lu, after a bit. "I suppose since Sue has invited them
I'll have to give them a party. But I wish you had let me know first,
Sue, before you asked them."

"Why, I didn't have time, Aunt Lu. I--I just had to get up the real
party right away, you see."

"Oh, yes, I see."

So Aunt Lu told Mary, her cook, and her other servants, to get ready for
the party Sue had planned. For it would never do to have the big girl,
and the little boys and girls, come all the way to Aunt Lu's house, and
then not give them something to eat, especially after Sue had promised
it to them.

Bunny and Sue could hardly wait for the next day to come, so eager were
they to have the party. They were up early in the morning, and they
wanted to help make the jam and jelly tarts, but Aunt Lu said Mary could
better do that alone. Wopsie helped dust the rooms, though, and she
lifted up to the mantel several pretty vases that had stood on low
tables.

"Dem chilluns might not mean t' do it," said the little colored girl,
"but dey might, accidental like, knock ober some vases an' smash 'em.
Den Miss Lu would feel bad."

Bunny and Sue spoke to Henry, the elevator boy, about the ragged
children coming to the party.

"You'll let them ride up with you; won't you, Henry?" asked Sue.

"Oh, suah I will!" he said, smiling and showing all his white teeth.
"Dey kin ride in mah elevator as well as not."

And, about two o'clock, which was the hour Sue had told them, the ragged
children came, the big girl marching on ahead with Aunt Lu's card held
in her hand, so she would find the apartment house. But the children
were n