asked Bunny, when they had ridden on for a few
blocks.

"Yes," answered Sue. "I like it. But I wish we had our dog Splash here
with us, Bunny."

"Yes, it would be fine!" Bunny said.

Speaking of the circus had made Sue think about Splash, who was far
away, at home in Bellemere.

The taxicab wound in and out among other cabs, horses and wagons of all
sorts. Now it would have to go slowly, through some crowded street, and
again the children were moving swiftly, when there was room to speed.

"He's a awful nice man to give us a ride like this," said Bunny to Sue.

"Yes; isn't he?" answered the little girl. "There's lots of people
getting rides, Bunny; see!"

Indeed there were many other taxicabs, and other automobiles on the
streets of New York, but Bunny and Sue looked most often at the taxicabs
like their own.

"There must be a awful lot of nice men, like ours, in New York," Bunny
went on. And, mind you, neither he nor Sue thought they would have to
pay for their automobile ride. They just thought you got in one of the
taxicabs, and rode as far as you liked, for nothing.

Pretty soon they were at Central Park.

"Now where shall I take you?" asked the man.

"Down by a elephant," spoke up Sue.

"Are you sure your mother will let you go?" asked the taxicab man. He
felt he must, in a way, look after the children.

"Oh, yes," said Bunny. "Mother would let us. She likes us to see
animals. She lets us have a circus whenever we like."

Bunny and Sue had on nice clothes, and the chauffeur knew they had come
from a street where many rich persons lived, so he was sure if the
children did not have with them the money to pay him, that their folks
would settle his bill.

"You can get out here, and walk along that path," he said, stopping his
machine on a roadway. "Then you can see the elephant, the lion and the
tiger. I'll wait for you here."

Hand in hand, Bunny and Sue went to the place in Central Park where the
animals are kept. It was not far from where the automobile had stopped,
out on Fifth Avenue, New York, and Bunny looked back, several times, as
he and his sister went down the steps, to make sure he would know the
place to find the automobile again, when he wanted to go home.

"Oh, there's a elephant!" cried Sue, as, walking along, her hand in
Bunny's, she saw one of the big animals, just stuffing some hay into his
mouth with his trunk. It was a warm day, and the elephant was out in the
"back yard" of