like my surprise, Bunny--Sue?"

"Is--is this the surprise?" asked Bunny.

"Yes, this is Wopsie. I'll tell you about her in a little while. Get in
now, and we'll soon be at my house."

Wopsie, the colored girl, smiled to show even more of her white teeth,
and then she asked:

"Is yo' all de company?"

"Yes, this is the company I told you about, Wopsie," said Miss Baker,
which was Aunt Lu's name. "This is Bunny," and she pointed to the little
boy, "and this little girl is Sue. They are going to be my company for a
long time, I hope."

Wopsie gave a funny little bow, that sent her black topknots of hair
bobbing all over her head, and said:

"Pleased to meet yo' all, company! Pleased to meet yo'!"

Bunny and Sue thought Wopsie talked quite funnily, but they were too
polite to say so. They looked at the little colored girl and smiled. And
she smiled back at them.

"Home, George," said Miss Baker to one of the two men on the front seat
of the automobile. The man touched his cap, and soon Bunny, Sue and
their mother were being driven rapidly through the streets of New York
in Aunt Lu's automobile.

"It's almost as big as the one we went in to grandpa's, in the country,"
said Bunny, as he looked around at the seats, and noticed the little
electric lamp in the roof.

"But you can't sleep in it or cook in it," said Sue. "And there's no
place for Splash or Bunker Blue."

"No," said Bunny. "That's so."

The children had had to leave Splash, the dog, home with Daddy Brown,
and of course Bunker Blue did not come to Aunt Lu's.

"No, we can't sleep in my auto, nor eat, unless it is to eat candy, or
cookies, or something like that," said Aunt Lu. "And I have some sweet
crackers for the children, if you think it's all right for them to eat,"
said Aunt Lu to Mother Brown.

"Oh, yes. I guess it will be all right. They must be hungry, though they
ate on the train."

"And Bunny stopped the train, too!" cried Sue. "He pulled on the whistle
cord, with mother's parasol, and we stopped so quick we slid out of our
seats; didn't we, Bunny?"

"Yep!"

"My! That was quite an adventure," said Aunt Lu, laughing.

"And we went in the choo-choo engine," went on Sue. "I ringed the bell,
I did, and so did Bunny. Was you ever in a train, Wopsie?" Sue asked the
little colored girl.

"Yes'm, I was once."

"Wopsie came all the way up from down South," said Aunt Lu. "She is a
little lost girl."

"Lost!" cried Bunny and Sue. They