went Bunny and his sister. For some time they sat
on the shady front steps, watching for a colored man or woman. But it
was quite long before one came along. Then it was a young colored man.
Up to him ran Bunny.

"Is you looking for Wopsie?" he asked. For the colored man was looking
up at the numbers on the houses.

"No, sah, little man. I'se lookin' fo' Henry," was the answer. "He's a
elevator boy, an' he done lib around yeah somewheres."

"Oh, he lives in here!" cried Sue. "Henry's our elevator boy. We'll show
you!"

She and Bunny ran into the hall, calling:

"Henry! Henry! Here's your brother looking for you!"

And so it was Henry's brother. He worked as an elevator boy in another
apartment house, and, as he had a few hours to spare, he had come to see
Henry.

The two colored boys talked together, riding up and down in the sliding
car, while Bunny and Sue went back to the street.

"Well, we didn't find anyone looking for Wopsie," said Bunny, "but we
found someone looking for Henry, and that's pretty near the same."

"Yes," said Sue. "Maybe we'll find Wopsie's aunt to-morrow."

But no more colored persons came along, and, after a while, Bunny and
Sue grew tired of waiting. Looking up in the air Bunny suddenly gave
a cry.

"Oh, Sue! Look!" he shouted. "There's a boy on the roof of that house
across the street, flying a kite. I'm going to get a kite and fly it
from our roof!"

"Do you think mother will let you?" asked Sue.

"I'm going to tell her about it!" Bunny exclaimed.

At first Mrs. Brown would not hear of Bunny's flying a kite from the
roof of the apartment house. But Aunt Lu said:

"Oh, the boys here often do it. That's the only place they have to fly
kites in New York. There is a good breeze up on our roof, and it's safe.
I don't know anything about a kite though, or how we could get Bunny
one."

"You can buy 'em in a store," said the little boy. "There's a store just
around the corner, and the kites cost five cents."

Mrs. Brown, hearing her sister say it was safe, and all right, to fly
kites from the roof, said Bunny might get one. So he and Sue, with
Wopsie, went to the little store around the corner. There Bunny got a
fine red, white and blue kite, with a tail to it.

"Now we'll take it up on the roof and fly it," he said to his sister and
the little colored girl, after he had tied the end of a ball of string
to his kite.

There was a good wind up on the roof, and the railing was s