the two Gypsies, leading their horses, went after him.

"Oh, Sue!" exclaimed Bunny. "There go grandpa's horses!"

"Well, when we go home we can tell him they are here in the circus, and
he can come after them, Bunny. Now I want to go in and see the animals."

But Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were not to go to the circus right
away. Just as Bunny was going up to another circus man he saw, to ask
him how he could get a ticket to the show, a voice cried:

"Well, if there aren't those Brown children! And all alone, too! They
must be lost! We must take them home!"

Bunny and Sue looked up to see Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, who lived on the
farm next to Grandpa Brown's, standing near.

"Bunny Brown! How did you get here?" asked Mrs. Kendall.

"We walked," said Bunny. "We're going to see the show."

"A fat man gave us a ride, and Splash, too," said Sue, as she patted her
dog's head. "Bunny was going to water the elephant, but he's too big--I
mean the elephant is too big. So we're going to water the ponies and
then we're going in the circus."

"Bless your hearts!" cried Mrs. Kendall. "Does your mother know you came
here?"

"Well--er--maybe," said Bunny. "But we didn't have time to tell her."

"They ran away, that's what they did," said the farmer. "Their folks
will be wild about them. I'd better take them home."

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue felt sad when they heard this.

"But we don't want to go home," said Bunny.

"We want to see the circus!" cried Sue.

"I know, my dear," explained Mrs. Kendall, kindly, "but your family
don't know where you are, and they will worry and be frightened. We will
take you home, and perhaps your folks will bring you back to see the
circus. You can't go in alone, anyhow."

Sue's eyes filled with tears. Bunny wanted to cry, but he did not like
to. Some one might see him.

"And we--we found grandpa's horses, too," Sue went on.

"What's that?" cried Mr. Kendall. "You found the horses the Gypsies
took? Where are they?"

"They're gone now," said Bunny, and he told what he and Sue had seen.

"Oh, well, maybe they weren't the same Gypsies, or the same horses at
all," Mrs. Kendall said. "These children guess at lots of things," she
told her husband.

"Yes," he answered. "But I'll just about have time to drive them home,
and come back to see the circus myself."

"I'll come with you," said his wife. "Their mother is probably looking
for them now. Come, Bunny, Sue--you'll ride home wi