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Sue looked around, and seeing that Henry had gone down in his elevator, she said:
"We could have walked our new dog up the stairs. We didn't need to bring him up in the elevator. Then Henry wouldn't have seen him."
"Yes, but he'd hear him when he barks. If they won't let us keep our new dog here we can take him to Central Park, Sue."
"What for, Bunny?"
"To put him in a cage until we go home. Then we can take him with us to play with Splash."
"Oh, maybe we could!" cried Sue, clapping her hands.
By this time Wopsie had opened the door.
"Well, where yo' chilluns bin?" she asked. "Yo' ma an' yo' aunt Lu am gettin' worried 'bout yo'."
"We found a dog!" cried Bunny. "A real dog!"
"And he's down stairs," said Sue. "Henry won't bring him up on the elevator, but it isn't 'cause Henry's afraid. They won't let dogs live in here, he says. Don't they, Aunt Lu?"
"Don't they what, Sue?" asked Miss Baker, coming into the room just then.
"Dogs," answered Bunny. "We found a nice dog, Aunt Lu, and we want to keep him, but Henry won't let us," and he told all that had happened.
"No, I am sorry," said Aunt Lu. "They don't allow any dogs, cats or parrots in this building. You see they think persons who have no pets would be bothered by those animals of the neighbors. I'm sorry, Bunny and Sue, but you can't have the dog. One is enough, anyhow, and you have Splash."
"Yes, but he's away off home," said Bunny.
"Never mind, dears. I'm sorry, but I haven't any place for a dog, or a cat or even a parrot."
Bunny and Sue thought for a moment Then Bunny asked:
"Could you keep a monkey, Aunt Lu?"
"Gracious goodness, no!" cried his aunt. "I should hope not! A monkey would be worse than a dog, a cat or a parrot. I hope you don't think of bringing a monkey home, Bunny."
"Oh, no'm. I was just wondering what we'd do if a hand-organ man gave us a monkey."
Mrs. Brown and Aunt Lu laughed.
"Well, I hope a hand-organ man won't give you a monkey," said Bunny's mother, "but, if one does, you'll have to say that you're much obliged, but that you can't keep it."
"Well," broke in Sue, "can we give this dog something to eat and drink, Aunt Lu? We promised him some."
"Yes, you can do that. Poor dog, he's probably a stray one, and will be glad of a meal. Mary will get you some cold meat and a pail of water, and you can take it down to the poor dog. But don't invite him up here, Bunny dear."
The children were sorry they could not keep the dog they had found in the street, but perhaps it was better not to have him. They gave him the water and meat, standing with Henry in the lower hall while the animal ate and drank. Then the elevator boy loosened the string from the dog's collar.
"Run along now!" called Henry, and the dog with a bark, and a wag of his tail, trotted off down the street.
"He's happy, anyhow," remarked Sue. "Dogs is always happy when they wag their tails; aren't they Bunny?"
"I guess so. Well, what will we do next?"
That question was answered for Bunny and Sue when they went up stairs again. For Wopsie was waiting to take them to a moving picture show not far away. There Bunny and Sue had a good time the rest of the afternoon.
It was two or three days after this that, as Bunny and Sue were walking up and down on the sidewalk in front of Aunt Lu's house, waiting for Wopsie to come down and go with them to another moving picture show, the two children saw, walking along, a very ragged man. And, as they watched him, they saw the poor man stoop ...
"Oh, Bunny! Look at that!" cried Sue.
"What is it?" asked the little boy.
"That man! He's so hungry he took bread out of the ash can."
"He must be terrible hungry," said Bunny. "Oh, Sue, I know what we can do!"
"What?"
"We can get him something to eat," said Bunny. "I heard Aunt Lu say she didn't know what she was going to do with all the meat left over from dinner. This man would like it, I'm sure. We can ask him up to Aunt Lu's rooms. She'll feed him."
"All right," cried Sue, always ready to do what Bunny did.
"We'll ask him. But we won't take him up in the elevator, Sue," Bunny went on.
"Why not?"
"'Cause maybe Henry won't let him come up, same as he wouldn't let the dog we found. We'll walk up the stairs with the man."
"It -- it's awful far," said Sue, with a sigh, as she thought of the ten flights. Once she and Bunny, just for fun, had walked up them. It took a long while.
"Well, I'll walk up with the ragged man," said Bunny. "You can ride up in the elevator, Sue, and tell Aunt Lu we're coming, so she can have something to eat all ready."
"All right," agreed Sue. "That will be nice!"
Then she and Bunny started toward the ragged man who was poking about in the ash can with a long stick, as though looking for more pieces of bread.
Chapter XV
Bunny Goes Fishing
"Are you hungry, Mr. Man?" asked Bunny, standing, with his sister Sue, behind the ragged man. "Are you hungry?"
The man turned quickly, and seeing it was only two little children, he smiled.
"Yes, I am hungry," he said. "I guess you'd be hungry, too, if you hadn't had any breakfast, or dinner or supper, except what you picked out of the ashes."