hollered, and he didn't come back, and oh dear! I guess he's
losted again!"

Mrs. Brown and Aunt Lu came hurrying into the kitchen. Behind them was
Wopsie, her hair standing up more than ever, for she had just finished
tying it in rags.

"What's the matter?" asked Mother Brown and Aunt Lu at the same time.

"Oh, Bunny's gone!" wailed Sue.

"He's in de dumb waiter," explained Mary.

"Oh, did he fall?" cried Aunt Lu.

"No'm, he jest got in to hab a ride, same as dat little boy who used to
lib up stairs," Mary explained. "We'll find him in de cellar all right,
Miss Baker."

"Find who?" Sue wanted to know.

"Yo' brudder!" said Mary. "Now don't yo' all git skairt. 'Case little
Massa Bunny am suah gwine t' be all right."

"I'll go and get him!" cried Aunt Lu.

"And I'll go with you," said Mother Brown.

"Oh, I'm coming too!" exclaimed Sue.

"No, you stay here, dear," said her mother. "You stay here with Mary and
Wopsie."

Mrs. Brown and her sister, who was the aunt of Bunny and Sue, went down
in the big elevator to the basement or cellar of the apartment house.
And there they saw a strange sight.

Bunny, whose clothes were all dusty, and whose hair was all topsy-turvy,
was standing in front of the janitor, an iceman and a policeman. These
three men were looking at the little boy who did not seem to know what
to do or say. But he was not crying. He was too brave for that.

"Oh, Bunny Brown!" cried his mother. "Why did you do it?"

Bunny did not answer, but the policeman spoke, and said:

"Is it all right, lady? Does he belong here?"

"Oh, yes, he's my little boy," explained Mrs. Brown.

"He rode down in the dumb waiter," Aunt Lu said. "You see he is visiting
me, and he had never seen a dumb waiter before."

"Well, he came down in one all right," said the iceman. "It was like
this," he explained to Aunt Lu. "After I sent up your piece of ice, Miss
Baker, I stood here talking to the janitor. All at once we heard the
dumb waiter come down with a bang, and then we heard someone in it
yelling. I thought it was a sneak-thief, or a burglar, for you know they
often rob houses by going up in dumb waiters.

"So I spoke to the janitor about it, and we called in the policeman who
was going past. We thought if it was a burglar we'd sure have him. But
when we opened the door there was only this little chap."

"I--I didn't mean to do it," said Bunny, as he saw them all looking at
him. "I just wanted to get a ride