oo, where Mother made as much fuss over the flowers as Sunny Boy had
over the baby deer, and where Daddy took pictures of them both to send
to Grandpa and Grandma Horton.

"We may be tired," Daddy admitted, when he looked at his watch and
found it was time for them to go home, "but then look what we have for
being tired!"

Sunny Boy was busy thinking of all the things he had seen, and he
forgot to be disappointed because the first car was full and he
couldn't get near the door to look out, as he had coming up that
morning.

"We'll change at Forty-second Street," he heard Daddy say to Mother.
"I'm afraid we stayed a little too long and will be caught in the
rush."

Mrs. Horton had a seat, but Sunny Boy and Daddy were standing.

"Hang on to my coat sleeve and you'll be steady enough," Daddy advised
his little son.

"I think it would be better if he sat in his mother's lap, don't you?"
said Mrs. Horton, smiling.

"But I'm not slipping, Mother," he announced proudly. "Wouldn't you
think I was standing without holding on to anything?"

"You manage very nicely," Mrs. Horton told him. "Isn't the next stop
ours, Harry?"

It was, and Mr. Horton had to elbow a little path for them to the
door, there were so many people trying to get in and out at the same
time. Sunny Boy had hold of Mother's dress, and as they squeezed out
of the car he lost his grasp.

"Goodness," he scolded, "I should think folks would wait a minute.
That man bumped right into me and never said 'excuse me.'"

Sunny Boy looked ahead and saw Mother's blue dress and tan coat.

"I 'spect I'd better hurry," he said aloud.

He ran after the blue dress and tan coat and slipped in through a door
just a second before the guard closed it.

Then Sunny Boy made a surprising discovery.

The blue dress and the tan coat were not Mother's at all! He had
followed a strange woman!

He looked all around the car and couldn't see his own mother, nor a
sign of Daddy. Though Sunny Boy did not know it, he had crossed the
station platform and taken an uptown train. He was riding away from
the hotel as fast as the noisy rumbling subway train could carry him.

"It's pretty crowded," said Sunny Boy to himself. "Maybe when some
more folks get off at the next station, I can see Mother."

But though people got off at the next station and the next, there was
no Mother.

Sunny Boy sat quietly. No one, looking at him, would have guessed that
he was lost. When the crowd