and donkeys
were no longer kept in the park for children to have rides. It was too
cold for the little animals. They would be kept in the warm stables
until summer came again.

Wopsie, or Sallie, still stayed at Aunt Lu's house, with Bunny and Sue.
For Aunt Lu did not want to let the little colored girl go to live with
Aunt Sallie, until it was sure she belonged to her. Aunt Sallie had made
money at her little candy stand, which she had kept in the park for a
number of years, and she was well able to take care of Sallie and
herself.

"As soon as I hear from down South, that Aunt Sallie is your aunt, you
shall go to her, Wopsie," Aunt Lu had said.

"Well, Miss Baker, I suttinly wants t' hab folks, like other chilluns,"
said the little colored girl, "but I suah does hate t' go 'way from yo'
who has bin so good t' me."

"Well, you have been good, and have helped me very much, also," said
Aunt Lu.

One day there was a flurry of snow flakes in the air. Bunny and Sue
watched them from the windows.

"Oh, soon we can ride down hill!" cried Sue. "Won't you be glad,
Bunny?"

"I sure will!" Bunny said. Then, coming close to Sue he whispered: "Say,
maybe if we went up on the roof now, we could have a slide. Let's go.
The roof is flat, and we can't fall off on account of the railing around
it. Come on and have a slide."

"I will!" said Sue.

Putting on their warm, outdoor clothes, the children went up on the flat
roof. There was plenty of snow up there, and soon they were having a
fine slide. It was rather funny to be sliding up on the roof, instead of
down on the ground, as they would have done at home, but, as I have told
you, New York is a queer place, anyhow.

After a while Bunny and Sue grew tired of sliding. It was snowing harder
now, and they were cold in the sharp wind.

"Oh, Bunny!" cried Sue, "I wonder if Santa Claus can get down this
chimney? It's the only one there is for Aunt Lu's house, and it isn't
very big. Do you think Santa Claus can climb down?"

"We'll look," Bunny said.

But the chimney was so high that Bunny and Sue could not look down
inside. They were very much worried as to whether St. Nicholas could get
into Aunt Lu's rooms to leave any Christmas presents.

"Let's go down and ask her how Santa Claus comes," said Sue.

"All right," agreed Bunny, and down they went.

But when they reached Aunt Lu's rooms, Bunny and Sue found so much going
on, that, for a while, they forgot all about San