ant, and sat down at one of the tables.
A girl, with a big white apron on over her black dress, brought them
each a glass of water and a napkin, and said:

"Well, children, what do you want?"

"We want dinner," said Bunny. "We're hungry, and we want some of those
cakes the man in the window is baking."

CHAPTER XIII

THE STRAY DOG

The girl waitress in the restaurant smiled at Bunny Brown and his sister
Sue. They seemed too small to be going about, ordering meals for
themselves, but then the girl knew that in New York people do not live
as they do in other cities, or in the country. Many New York persons
never eat a meal at home, nor do their children. They go out to hotels,
restaurants or boarding houses.

And perhaps this girl thought Bunny and Sue might be the children of
some family who had rooms near the restaurant, and who went out to their
meals. So she just asked them:

"Are cakes the only things you want?"

"Oh, no, we'll want more than that," said Bunny. "But we want the cakes
first; don't we, Sue?"

"Yep," Sue answered. "I like pancakes. And I want some syrup on mine."

"So do I!" cried Bunny.

"I'll bring you some maple syrup when I bring you the cakes," the girl
said as, with a smile, she went up to the front of the restaurant to
tell the white-capped cook in the window to bake a plate of cakes for
each of the children.

Several other persons in the restaurant smiled at Bunny and Sue, as they
sat there waiting for the cakes. They seemed such little tots to be all
alone. But Bunny and Sue knew what they were doing. At least they
thought they did, and they were not at all bashful.

When the hot cakes were brought to them they spread on some butter,
poured the maple syrup over their plates, out of the little silver
pitchers, and began to eat.

"They're awful good, aren't they, Bunny?" asked Sue, as she took up the
last piece of her third cake.

"Yep," he answered. "I like 'em."

"Let's have some more," Sue said.

"No, let's have something else," said Bunny. "I'm hot now."

"Oh, then we ought to have ice-cream," cried Sue. "You know the other
night, when Aunt Lu and mother were so warm, they had ice-cream."

"Then we'll have some," agreed Bunny.

"Anything else?" asked the waitress girl, coming up to their table.

[Illustration: SOON BUNNY AND SUE WERE EATING THE ICE-CREAM

_Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home._ _Page 131._]

"Ice-cream, please--two plates