Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lus City Home | Page 8

and he brought out
a handful from his pocket. "Here, Wango, come and get these!" the old
sailor called.
Wango chattered, and came scrambling down the church steeple. He
liked peanuts very much, and he was soon perched on his master's
shoulder eating the brown kernels, and throwing the shells to one side.
"Well, now that everything is over all right, we'll go back home," said
Mr. Brown. "But the next time a bell rings at night, I don't want you
children running out," he said.
"We won't," promised Bunny. "But it was so nice and warm, and
moonlight, that we couldn't stay in, Daddy."
Daddy Brown laughed, and a little later he and his wife, with Bunny
and Sue, were safe at home. They went in without awakening Uncle
Tad or Mary, the cook. The other people also went home. Mr. Winkler
fastened Wango so he could not get loose, and soon everyone was
asleep again, even the bell-ringing monkey.
In the morning Bunny and Sue went over to see the old sailor's pet.

Wango jumped around on his perch and chattered, for he liked the
children.
"I--I wish we'd had him in the circus at grandpa's farm," said Bunny, as
he watched Wango do some of his tricks. "He would have made them
all laugh."
"Yes," said Sue. "Wango is funny!" and she petted the little, brown
animal.
When Bunny and Sue reached home again, munching on some cookies
Miss Winkler had given them, they found their mother reading a letter.
"Good news, children!" Mother Brown cried. "Good news!"
"Oh, are we going back to grandpa's farm?" asked Bunny.
"No, not this time," said his mother. "This is a letter from Aunt Lu. She
invites us to come to her home, in New York City, to spend the fall and
winter. Oh, it's just a lovely invitation from Aunt Lu!"
CHAPTER IV
ON THE GROCERY WAGON
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue began to dance up and down, and to
clap their fat little hands. They always did this when they were happy
over some pleasure that was coming. And surely it would be a pleasure
to go to Aunt Lu's city home.
"Oh, Mother, may we go?" cried Bunny.
"Please say we can!" begged Sue.
"Why, yes, I think we'll go," smiled Mother Brown. "I have been
thinking for some time of paying Aunt Lu a visit, and, now that she
asks us to come, I think we will go."
"And will daddy come?" Bunny wanted to know.

"Well, he can't come and stay as long as we shall stay, perhaps," said
Mrs. Brown, "but he may be with us part of the time, as he was at
grandpa's farm."
"Oh, goodie! What fun we'll have! Oh, goodie! What fun we'll have!"
sang Sue, dancing around, holding her doll by one arm.
"And we'll ride in street cars, and on the steam cars," said Bunny, "and
I'll see a policeman and a fireman and the fire engines, and we'll have
ice cream cones, and--and----"
But that was all the little boy could think of just then, and he had to
stop to catch his breath, which had nearly got away from him, he had
talked so fast.
"There won't be any horses to ride, and we can't see the ducks and
chickens," said Sue, "like we did on grandpa's farm in the country,
Bunny."
"No, but we can see lots of other things in the city. I know we'll have
plenty of fun, Sue."
"Yes, I guess we will. When are we going, Mother?"
"Oh, in about a week, I think. I'll write and tell Aunt Lu we are
coming."
"She hasn't lost her diamond ring again; has she?" asked Bunny.
"No, I guess not. She doesn't say anything about it, if she has,"
answered Mrs. Brown.
"'Cause if she had lost it we'd help her find it," the little boy went on.
"Oh, Sue! aren't you glad we're going?"
"Well, I just guess I am!" said Sue, happily, singing again.
She and Bunny talked of nothing else all that day but of the visit to
Aunt Lu, and at night, when they were going to bed, they made plans of

what they would do when they got to Aunt Lu's city house in New
York.
"You'll come; won't you, Daddy?" asked Bunny, at breakfast the next
morning, just before Mr. Brown was ready to start for his office at the
fish dock.
"Well, yes, I guess I'll come down when it gets so cold here that the
boats can't go out in the bay on account of the ice," said daddy.
"Oh, are we going to stay until winter?" asked Sue.
"Yes, we shall stay over Christmas," her mother answered.
"Will there be a place to slide down hill?"