ught to be spanked for this! I wonder
whose boy he is?"

"I'm glad it isn't Bunny or Sue," said Mrs. Brown.

"Yes, they are safe at home in bed," answered Mr. Brown.

And, all this while, mind you, Bunny and Sue were right there in the
crowd, where they could hear their father and their mother talking. But
Mr. and Mrs. Brown did not see their children.

"Who are you, up there on that steeple?" cried Mr. Gordon. "Whose boy
are you, and what are you doing there?"

There was no answer.

"Maybe it's Ben Hall, the circus boy," said Sue, as she thought of the
strange boy who had come to grandpa's farm.

"No, it couldn't be!" said Bunny.

"It might," Sue went on. "Ben was a good climber, you know. He climbed
up high in the barn, and jumped down in the hay, and he turned a
somersault."

"Yes, but the church steeple is higher than the barn," said Bunny. "That
isn't Ben Hall. It's a little boy--not much bigger than I am."

Just then the moon, which had been behind a cloud, came out. The church
steeple was well lighted up, and then everyone cried:

"Why, it isn't a boy at all! It's a monkey!"

"A monkey has been ringing the bell!"

"Whose monkey is it?" someone asked.

"Why it's Wango!" exclaimed Bunny Brown, out loud, before he thought.
"It's Mr. Winkler's monkey, Wango!"

"And I know how to get him down!" chimed in Sue. "Just give him some
peanuts, and he'll come down!"

The children's voices rang out clearly in the silence of the night.
Everyone heard them, Mr. and Mrs. Brown included.

"Why--why, that sounded just like Bunny!" said Mrs. Brown.

"And Sue," added Mr. Brown. "Bunny! Sue!" he called. "Are you here?
Where are you?"

"We--we're here, Daddy," said Bunny, sliding out from behind Mr. Gordon.

"And I'm here, too!" said Sue. She let her bath robe fall down over her
bare legs.

"Well I never!" cried Mrs. Brown. "I thought you were at home in bed!"

"We--we heard the fire-bell, Mother," said Bunny, "and when you and
daddy got up we got up, too."

"But we didn't wake Uncle Tad nor Mary," said Sue.

The crowd laughed, and Mr. and Mrs. Brown had to smile. After all, Bunny
and Sue had done nothing so very wrong. It was a warm, light night, and
they were not far from home. Besides, they were only following their
father and mother, though of course they ought not to have done that.

"Well, well!" said Mrs. Brown. "I wonder what you children will do
next?"

"We--we don't know," answered Sue, and