er. Bunny and me, we
found a dog, and Henry made us tie him down in the hall to feed him."

"Yes, I suppose so," said the old man.

"And we found a ragged man," went on Bunny, "and I had to lead him up
stairs--ten flights--'cause Henry maybe wouldn't let him ride in the
elevator."

"That was too bad," said the old animal store-keeper. "But where do you
children live? Is your home near here, and do your folks know you are
trying to buy a monkey and a parrot?"

Then, for the first time since they had looked in the window of the
animal store, Bunny and Sue thought of Mother Brown and Aunt Lu. They
remembered they had started for the seashore.

"Oh, our mother and aunt are with us," said Bunny. "We had our dinner,
and we're going to Coney Island. I guess we'd better go, too, Sue. Maybe
they're waiting for us."

Bunny and Sue started out of the animal store, but, just then, one
monkey pulled another monkey's tail, and the second one made such a
chattering noise that the children turned around to see what it was.
Then the monkey whose tail was pulled, reached out his paw, through the
wires of his cage, and caught hold of the tail of a green parrot.
Perhaps he thought the parrot was pulling his tail.

"Stop it! Stop it!" screamed the parrot. "Polly wants a cracker! Oh,
what a hot day! Have some ice-cream! Stop it! Stop it! Pop goes the
weasel!"

Bunny and Sue laughed, though they felt sorry that the monkey's and
parrot's tails were being pulled. The animal-store man hurried over to
the cages to stop the trouble, and Bunny and Sue stayed to watch.

So it happened, when Mother Brown and Aunt Lu turned around, to find the
missing children, Bunny and Sue were not in sight, being inside the
store. So, of course, their mother and their aunt did not see them.

"Oh, where could they have gone?" cried Mother Brown.

"Perhaps they are just behind us," said Aunt Lu. "We'll find them all
right."

"But suppose they are lost?"

"They can't be lost very long in New York," Aunt Lu said. "The police
will find them. Come, we'll walk back and look for them."

But though Mother Brown and Aunt Lu walked right past the store, they
never thought that Bunny and Sue were inside.

"Oh, dear!" cried Aunt Lu, "I don't see where they can be!"

"Nor I," said Mrs. Brown. "Oh, if my children are lost!"

"If they are we'll soon find them," asserted Aunt Lu, looking up and
down the street, but not seeing Bunny or Sue. "Here comes a policem