a little girl that lives with my aunt, and--"

But the elevator boy did not wait for Bunny to finish.

"Wopsie!" he cried. "Am she dat queer li'l colored gal, wif her hair all
done up in rags?"

"Yes!" cried Sue eagerly. "That's Wopsie. We came out to walk with her,
but we heard the hand-piano music, and we got lost."

"Do you know Wopsie?" asked Bunny.

"I suah does!" cried the elevator boy. "She's a real nice li'l gal, an'
we all likes her."

"She's losted too," said Bunny.

"Yes, I knows about dat!" replied the elevator boy. "We all knows 'bout
Wopsie. Why she's jest down the street, and around the corner a few
houses. Now I know where yo' Aunt Lu libs. If you'd a' done said Wopsie
_fust_, I'd a knowed den, right off quick!"

"Can you take us home?" asked Sue.

"I suah can!" cried the kind colored boy. "Jes yo' all wait a minute."

He called to another colored boy to take care of his elevator, and then,
holding one of Bunny's and one of Sue's hands, he went out into the
street. Around the corner he hurried, and, no sooner had he turned it,
than up rushed Wopsie herself. She made a grab for Bunny and Sue.

"Oh, mah goodness!" cried the little colored girl. "Oh, mah goodness!
I'se so skeered! I done t'ought I'd losted yo' all!"

"No, Wopsie," said Bunny. "You didn't lost us. We losted ourselves. We
heard music, and we went to look for a monkey."

"But there wasn't any monkey," said Sue, "and we got in the wrong house,
where Aunt Lu didn't live."

"But he brought us back. He knows you, Wopsie," and Bunny nodded toward
the kind elevator boy.

"I guess everybody around dish yeah place knows Wopsie," said the boy,
smiling. "Will yo' all take dese chilluns home now?" he asked.

"I suah will!" Wopsie said. "Mah goodness! I'se bin lookin' all ober fo'
'em! I didn't know where dey wented. Come along now, an' yo' all musn't
go 'way from Wopsie no mo'!"

"We won't!" promised Bunny.

He and Sue were beginning to find out that it was easier to get lost in
the city, even by going just around the corner, than it was in the
country, when they went down a long road. For in the city the houses
were so close together, and they all looked so much alike, that it was
hard to tell one from the other.

"But yo' all am all right now, honey lambs," said Wopsie, who seemed to
be very much older than Bunny and Sue, though really she was no more
than three or four years older.

"Do we have to go in now?" asked Bunny, as