, and then Sue was going to have one.
But, as soon as I got in, the dumb waiter went down so quick I couldn't
stop."

"He sure did come down with a bump!" exclaimed the iceman. "I guess he
was a little too heavy for it, or else the rope must have slipped.
Anyhow he's not hurt much, except he's a bit mussed up."

"Are you hurt, Bunny?" his mother asked him.

"No'm," he answered. "Just bumped, that's all. I--I won't do it again."

"No, you'd better not, because you might get hurt," said the policeman.
"Well," he added, "I might as well go along, for you have no burglars
for me to arrest this day," and away he went.

Then the iceman went off, laughing, and Mrs. Brown and Aunt Lu took
Bunny up to their apartment in the elevator.

"This is nicer than the dumb waiter," Bunny said, as Henry took them up.
"I was all scrunched up in that, and I got a awful hard bump."

Mrs. Brown sighed.

"I'm sure I don't know what you will do next," she said. "You and Sue
never do the same thing twice, so there's no use in telling you to be
careful."

"Oh, I won't get in any more dumb waiters," said Bunny, with a shake of
his head. "They're too small, and they're too bumpy."

Sue felt much better when she saw that Bunny was all right, and Mary
gave each of the children a piece of cake, after which Wopsie took them
up to the roof, where an awning had been stretched to make shade, and
there, high above the city streets, the two children had a sort of
play-party.

"I like it in the city; don't you, Bunny?" asked Sue.

"Yes, I think it's fine at Aunt Lu's house," returned Bunny. "Don't you
like it here, Wopsie?"

"Yes'm, I suah does. But I wishes as how I could find mah folks. It's
awful nice heah, an' Miss Baker suah does treat me mighty fine, but I'd
like to find mah own aunt."

"And don't you know where she is?" asked Bunny.

"No'm, I don't 'member much about it all," said the colored girl, with a
shake of her kinky head. "I lived down Souf, an' I s'pects dey got tired
ob me down dere. Or else maybe dey didn't hab money 'nuff t' keep me.
Colored folks down Souf is terrible poor. They ain't rich, laik yo' Aunt
Lu."

"Aunt Lu is terrible rich," said Sue. "She's got a diamond ring."

"I knows dat!" said Wopsie.

"An' it was losted, like we was," Sue went on, "but Bunny, he found it
in a lobster claw. And we had a Punch and Judy show."

"I'd laik dat!" exclaimed Wopsie, her eyes sparkling.

"Maybe we could help you find yo