h the man."

"It--it's awful far," said Sue, with a sigh, as she thought of the ten
flights. Once she and Bunny, just for fun, had walked up them. It took a
long while.

"Well, I'll walk up with the ragged man," said Bunny. "You can ride up
in the elevator, Sue, and tell Aunt Lu we're coming, so she can have
something to eat all ready."

"All right," agreed Sue. "That will be nice!"

Then she and Bunny started toward the ragged man who was poking about in
the ash can with a long stick, as though looking for more pieces of
bread.

CHAPTER XV

BUNNY GOES FISHING

"Are you hungry, Mr. Man?" asked Bunny, standing, with his sister Sue,
behind the ragged man. "Are you hungry?"

The man turned quickly, and seeing it was only two little children, he
smiled.

"Yes, I am hungry," he said. "I guess you'd be hungry, too, if you
hadn't had any breakfast, or dinner or supper, except what you picked
out of the ashes."

"My Aunt Lu will give you something to eat," said Sue. "You're going to
walk up stairs with Bunny, so Henry, the elevator boy, won't see you.
You don't mind walking, do you?"

"Not if I get something to eat," and the man chewed on a piece of the
dried bread.

"Oh, Aunt Lu will give you lots!" promised Sue. "She's got plenty of
meat left over from dinner, I heard her say so. But you can't go in the
elevator. Henry wouldn't let us take up a dog we found."

"Course you're not a dog," Bunny explained quickly, "but they don't let
dogs or cats or parrots, or I guess monkeys, up in this place, so maybe
they wouldn't let you. But I don't know about that. Only I'll walk up
stairs with you, and get you something to eat."

"And I'll go on ahead and tell Aunt Lu you're coming," said Sue. "Then
Henry won't see you in his elevator. Go on, Bunny."

"Come along," said the little fellow, holding out his hand to the ragged
man. Even though he was ragged he seemed clean.

"Oh, I guess I'd better not go up with you, little ones," the man said.
"I'm not dressed nice enough to go in there," and he looked up at the
fine, big apartment house in which lived Aunt Lu. "If there was a back
door I'd go round to that," he said, "but they don't have back doors to
city houses. I'm not used to being a tramp, and begging, either," he
said. "But I've been sick, and I can't get any work, and I don't want to
beg."

"Aunt Lu likes to help people," said Bunny, "and so does my mother. You
come on up stairs with me and I'll get