his cage. In the winter he was kept in the elephant
house, where the people could look at him standing behind the heavy iron
bars, but in summer he was allowed to go out of doors, though his yard
had a fence of big iron bars all around it.

"I wish we had some peanuts to give him," said Sue.

"Well, I haven't any money," answered Bunny. "Anyhow, if I had, Sue,
I'd rather buy us each a lollypop. The elephant has hay to eat."

"Yes, I know," said Sue. "But I like to see him pick up peanuts with his
trunk."

However, they had no money, so they could not feed peanuts to the
elephant. Some other children, though, had bought bags of the nuts, and
these they tossed in to the big animal. There was a sign on his yard,
which said no one must feed the animals, but no one stopped the
children, so Sue did see, after all, the elephant chewing the roasted
nuts.

For some time Bunny and Sue watched the elephants. There were two of
them, and, after a while, a keeper came into the yard, and handed a
large mouth organ to the biggest elephant. The wise creature held it in
his trunk, and, to the surprise of Sue and her brother, began to blow on
the mouth organ, making music, though of course the elephant could not
play a regular tune.

"Oh, isn't he smart, Bunny!" cried Sue.

"He--he's a regular circus elephant!" Bunny cried. "I like him!"

The other children, who had come to Central Park, also enjoyed seeing
the big elephant eat peanuts, and play a mouth organ.

"I'd like to see some monkeys," said Bunny, after a bit, when the
elephant seemed to have gone to sleep standing up, for elephants do
sleep that way.

"The monkeys are over in that house," a boy told Bunny, pointing to a
brown building not far from the elephant's cage and yard.

"Oh, let's go!" cried Sue.

Soon she and her brother were watching the monkeys do funny tricks,
climb up the sides of their cage, eat peanuts and pull each other's
tails and ears.

Bunny and Sue spent some time in Central Park, looking at the different
animals. There was one, almost as big as an elephant, only not so tall.
He was called a hippopotamus, and he swam in a tank of water, next door
to a pool in which lived some mud turtles and alligators. When the
hippopotamus opened his mouth it looked big enough to hold a washtub.

"Oh!" cried Sue, as she saw this. "I wouldn't like him to bite me,
would you, Bunny?"

"No, I guess not!" said the little boy.

But there was no danger that the