low voice.

"It--it suah has!" whispered Wopsie. "Oh, Bunny. I'se so sorry!"

"So'm I!" added Sue.

Bunny said nothing. He just looked at his kite, growing smaller and
smaller as it sailed away through the air. It was too bad.

"Never mind," said Bunny, swallowing the "crying lump" in his throat, as
he called it. "It--it wasn't a very good kite anyhow. I'm going to get a
bigger one."

"Den we suah will be pulled offen de roof!" said Wopsie, and Bunny and
Sue laughed at the queer way she said it.

However, nothing could be done now to get the kite. Away it went,
sailing on and on over other roofs. The long string, with the clothes
pin on the end of it, dangled over the courtyard of the apartment house.
Then the wind did not blow quite so hard for a moment, and the kite sank
down.

"Oh, maybe you can get it!" cried Sue.

"Let's try!" exclaimed Bunny. "Come on, Wopsie. We'll go down to the
street and run after my kite."

Down to Aunt Lu's floor went the children. Quickly they told Mother
Brown and Aunt Lu what had happened.

"We're going to chase after my kite," said Bunny. "That's what we do in
the country when a kite gets loose like mine did."

"But I'm afraid it won't be so easy to run after a kite in the city as
it is in the country," said Mother Brown. "There are too many houses
here, Bunny. But you may try. Wopsie will go with you, and don't go too
far away."

Wopsie knew all the streets about Aunt Lu's house, and could not get
lost, so it was safe for Bunny and Sue to go with her. A little later
the three were down on the street, running in the direction they had
last seen the kite. But they could see it no longer. There were too many
houses in the way, and there were no big green fields, as in the
country, across which one could look for ever and ever so far.

For several blocks, and through a number of streets, Bunny Brown and his
sister Sue, with Wopsie, tried to find the kite. But it was not in
sight. They even asked a kind-looking policeman, but he had not seen it.

"I guess we'll have to go back without it," said Bunny, sighing. "But
I'll buy another to-morrow."

The children turned to go back to Aunt Lu's house. Bunny and Sue looked
about them. They had never been on this street before. It was not as
nice as the one where their aunt lived. The houses were just as big, but
they were rather shabby looking--like old and ragged dresses. And the
people in the street, and the children, were not w