the others. The others rather liked it. One boy was
playing with a policeman's hat, while a little girl was trying to see if
she was as tall as a policeman's long club.

"Will they stay here long?" asked Aunt Lu.

"Oh, no, not very long," said the officer.

"Their mothers will miss them soon, and come to look for them. So none
of these are yours?" he asked.

"No, but I wish they were," said Mother Brown. "Oh, what has happened to
Bunny and Sue?" she asked, and there were tears in her eyes.

"They'll be all right," said the officer in the gold-laced cap. "Maybe
they haven't been found yet. As soon as a policeman on the street sees
that your children are lost he'll bring them here. You can sit down and
wait, if you like. Your little ones may be brought in any minute now."

But Aunt Lu and Mother Brown thought they would rather be out in the
street, looking for Bunny and Sue, instead of staying in the police
station, and waiting.

"If you leave the names of your children," said the officer to Mother
Brown, "we'll telephone to you as soon as they are found. That is if
they can tell their names."

"Oh, Bunny and Sue can do that, and they can also tell where they live,"
said Aunt Lu.

"Oh, then they'll be all right," the officer said, with a laugh. "Maybe
they're home by this time. If they told a policeman where they lived he
might even take them home, or send them home in a taxicab. We often do
that," he said, for he could tell by looking at Aunt Lu and Mother Brown
that the two ladies lived in a nice part of New York, maybe a long way
from this police station.

"Oh, perhaps Bunny and Sue are home now, waiting for us!" said Mother
Brown. "Let's go and see!"

"And if they're not, and if they are brought here, we'll telephone to
you," the officer said, as he put the names of Bunny and Sue down on a
piece of paper, and also Aunt Lu's telephone number.

So Mrs. Brown and her sister left the police station, and, after another
look in the street where they last had seen Bunny and Sue, hoping they
might see them (but they did not), off they started for Aunt Lu's house.

"Maybe they are there now," said Mother Brown.

But of course Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were not. We know where
they were, though their mother and aunt did not. The children were
still in the animal store, laughing at the funny things the monkeys were
doing.

After a while, though, one monkey stopped pulling the other monkey's
tail, and the o