ur folks," said Bunny. "We found Aunt
Lu's diamond ring, and grandpa's horses, that the Gypsies took; so maybe
we could find your folks, Wopsie."

"I don't believe so," and the little colored girl shook her head. "Yo'
all sees it was dis heah way. Somebody down Souf, what was takin' care
ob me, got tired, and shipped me up Norf here. Dey didn't come wif me
deyse'ves, but dey puts a piece ob paper on me, same laik I was a
trunk, or a satchel.

"Well, maybe it would a' bin all right, but dat piece ob paper come
unpinned offen me, an' I got losted, same laik you'd lose a trunk. Only
Miss Lu found me, an' she's keepin' me, but she don't know who I belongs
to, nohow."

"And is your aunt up here?" asked Bunny.

"Yes'm, she's somewheres in New York," and Wopsie waved her hand over
the big city, down on which Sue and Bunny could look from the roof of
the apartment house.

"Well, maybe we can find her for you," said Bunny. "We'll try; won't we,
Sue?"

"Course we will, Bunny Brown."

Just how he was going to do it Bunny Brown did not know. But he made up
his mind that he would find Wopsie's aunt for her. And two or three
times after that, when he and Sue happened to be out in the street, and
saw any colored women, the children would ask them if they were looking
for a little, lost colored girl named Wopsie. But of course the colored
women knew nothing about the little piccaninny.

"Well, we'll have to ask somebody else," Bunny would say, after each
time, when he had not found an aunt for Wopsie. "We'll find her yet,
Sue."

"Yes," Sue would answer, "we will!"

From the windows of Aunt Lu's house Bunny and Sue could look down on the
street and see many strange sights. Oh! how many automobiles there were
in New York!

There were big ones, and little ones, but there were more of the small
kind, with little red flags in front, than any other.

"Those are called taxicabs," Aunt Lu told Bunny. "They are like the old
cabs, drawn by horses. If a person wants to ride in a taxicab he just
waves his hand to the men at the steering wheel."

"And does he stop?" asked Bunny.

"Yes," answered Aunt Lu. "The taxicab man stops."

"And gives 'em a ride?" Sue wanted to know.

"Yes, he takes them wherever they want to go."

Bunny and Sue looked at each other. Their eyes sparkled, and it is too
bad Aunt Lu did not see them just then, or she might have said something
that would have saved much trouble. But she was busy sewing, and