still in the kitchen.

"Sue," said Bunny. "I know something we can do to have fun."

"What?" asked the little girl.

"Play with the dumb waiter. It's just like a little elevator. Now I'll
get in, you close the door, and I'll ride down cellar. Then when I ride
up it will be your turn to ride down."

"All right!" cried Sue. "I'll do it. You go first, Bunny."

Standing on a chair, Bunny managed to crawl into the dumb waiter box,
where the piece of ice had been. And then, all at once something
happened.

CHAPTER XI

A LONG RIDE

"Are you all ready, Bunny?" asked Sue, as she stood on the chair close
to the little door of the dumb waiter, or elevator.

"Yep," Bunny answered.

Sue closed the door, and then there was a squeaking sound inside the
little closet where the waiter slid up and down. At the same time
Bunny's voice was heard crying:

"Oh, Sue! I'm falling! I'm falling down!"

Sue did not know what to do. She tried to open the door, but it had shut
with a spring catch when she pushed on it, and her small fingers were
not strong enough to open it again.

"Oh dear!" cried the little girl. "Oh dear! Bunny! Mother! Aunt Lu!
Mary! Wopsie!"

She called every name she could think of, and she would have called for
her father, Grandpa Brown and even Uncle Tad, only she knew they were
far away.

"Bunny! Bunny!" Sue called. "Is you there? Is you in there?"

But Bunny did not answer. And now Sue could hear no noise from the dumb
waiter, inside of which she had shut her brother.

"Bunny! Bunny!" begged Sue. "Speak to me! Where is you?"

But no answer came. Bunny was far off. I'll tell you, soon, where he
was.

Sue got down off the chair, on which she stood to push shut the door,
after Bunny crawled inside the dumb waiter. The little girl ran out of
the kitchen, calling to her mother, Aunt Lu and Wopsie. The colored cook
was the first one to answer.

"What's the matter?" she called. "What hab happened, Sue?"

"Oh, it's Bunny! He's gone! He's gone!" sobbed Sue.

"Gone? Gone where?" Mary asked.

"Down there!" and Sue pointed to the dumb waiter door.

Mary ran across the kitchen, and opened the door. She looked down, and
then she turned to Sue and asked:

"Did he fall down, Sue?"

"No, he didn't fall down. But he got in the little box, where the ice
was, and told me to shut the door. He was going to have a ride. It was
going to be my turn when he came back. But there was a big bump, and
Bunny