and didn't bring
'em back."

CHAPTER XXIV

BUNNY AND SUE ARE SAD

Bunny and Sue watched the two Gypsy men closely. The children were sure
the men were Gypsies, for they looked just like those others the
children had seen in the woods, when the two youngsters wandered away on
the first night of their automobile trip.

The two men, with their bright red sashes, and the gold rings in their
ears, stood together. Each one had hold of the halter of a horse he was
leading. And the horses did not seem to be the kind that belonged in a
circus, for they pranced about, and did not like to hear the music. Nor
did they like the sight of the elephants and camels, that were now
walking about, getting ready for the parade.

"Do you s'pose they could be grandpa's horses?" asked Sue, of her
brother.

"Maybe," said Bunny.

"What did the Gypsy men bring them here for?" Sue wanted to know.

"Maybe they want to train them to be circus horses, or maybe they want
to sell them," Bunny answered.

"We ought to go to tell grandpa," declared Sue. "Then he could come and
get his team. He wants it awful much."

"We can tell him after the circus," Bunny said. "We want to see the
show, Sue."

"Yes, and I want a red balloon, or maybe a blue one. Which goes up the
highest, Bunny?" For, just then a man walked past, with many balloons,
blue, red, green and yellow, floating in the air.

"Oh, I guess they all go up the same, Sue," said Bunny. The little boy
was thinking hard. Suppose those should be his grandfather's horses that
the Gypsy men had? How could Bunny get them? It seemed too hard for the
little boy to do.

Then, too, Bunny wanted to take Sue in to see the circus. That was what
they had come for. But how could he get in when he had no money? And,
now that he had seen an elephant close by, he did not feel like
carrying water to one of the big animals. Suppose one of them should
accidentally step on Bunny Brown?

The little boy looked around for some one to whom he could speak. He
wanted to ask about getting into the show, and he wanted to talk about
his grandfather's horses and the Gypsies.

But every one seemed to be too busy to stop to speak to the two
children, all alone on the circus grounds.

Watching the two Gypsies, with the horses, Bunny and Sue saw the men
talk to some of the circus people. The Gypsies pointed to the horses
several times, and Bunny and Sue felt sure that the men with the red
sashes, and the g