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"Ding!"
But she was just as well pleased.
By this time the engine had taken enough water for its boiler, to last until it got to New York, and the conductor took Bunny and Sue back to their mother. They were quite excited and pleased over their visit to the locomotive, and told Mrs. Brown all about the strange sights they had seen.
"But when will we be at Aunt Lu's?" asked Bunny, as he looked out of the window.
"Oh, soon now," his mother answered.
And, in about an hour, the brakeman put his head in through the door of their car, and called out:
"New York! All change!"
"Change what, Mother?" asked Sue. "Have we got to change our clothes? Are we going to bed?"
"No, dear. The man means we must change cars. We are at the end of our railroad trip."
"But it's so dark," said Bunny. "I thought it was time to go to bed."
"It's the station that's dark," said Mrs. Brown. "Part of it is underground, like a tunnel."
Indeed it was so dark in the train and the station that the car lamps were lighted. No wonder Bunny and Sue thought it time to go to bed.
But when they got outside the sun was shining, though it was afternoon, and would soon be supper time.
"Oh, here you are! Hello, Bunny dear! Hello, Sue dear!" cried a jolly voice.
"Oh, Aunt Lu! Oh, Aunt Lu!" cried Bunny and Sue as they clung to their aunt. "We're so glad to see you!"
"And I'm glad to see you!" she cried, as she kissed her sister, Mrs. Brown. "Now come on, and we'll soon be at my house."
"But where's the surprise?" asked Bunny.
"Yes, we want to see the surprise," said Sue.
"It's in my automobile," said Aunt Lu with a laugh. "Come on, I'll show her to you."
"Is it -- is it a her?" asked Bunny.
"Yes, my dear. You'll soon see. Come on!"
Aunt Lu led the way to a fine, large automobile just outside the station. A man wearing a tall hat opened the door of the car, and looking inside Bunny and Sue saw a queer little colored girl, her kinky hair standing up in little pigtails all over her head. She smiled at Bunny and Sue, showing her white teeth.
"There!" cried Aunt Lu. "What do you think of my surprise?"
Chapter IX
The Wrong House
For a second or two Bunny Brown and his sister Sue did not know what to say. They stood on the sidewalk, at the door of the automobile, which was one of the closed kind, staring at the little colored girl, with her kinky wisps of hair.
"Well, what do you think of Wopsie?" asked Aunt Lu again. "Don't you like my surprise, Bunny -- Sue?"
"Is -- is this the surprise?" asked Bunny.
"Yes, this is Wopsie. I'll tell you about her in a little while. Get in now, and we'll soon be at my house."
Wopsie, the colored girl, smiled to show even more of her white teeth, and then she asked:
"Is yo' all de company?"
"Yes, this is the company I told you about, Wopsie," said Miss Baker, which was Aunt Lu's name. "This is Bunny," and she pointed to the little boy, "and this little girl is Sue. They are going to be my company for a long time, I hope."
Wopsie gave a funny little bow, that sent her black topknots of hair bobbing all over her head, and said:
"Pleased to meet yo' all, company! Pleased to meet yo'!"
Bunny and Sue thought Wopsie talked quite funnily, but they were too polite to say so. They looked at the little colored girl and smiled. And she smiled back at them.
"Home, George," said Miss Baker to one of the two men on the front seat of the automobile. The man touched his cap, and soon Bunny, Sue and their mother were being driven rapidly through the streets of New York in Aunt Lu's automobile.
"It's almost as big as the one we went in to grandpa's, in the country," said Bunny, as he looked around at the seats, and noticed the little electric lamp in the roof.
"But you can't sleep in it or cook in it," said Sue. "And there's no place for Splash or Bunker Blue."
"No," said Bunny. "That's so."
The children had had to leave Splash, the dog, home with Daddy Brown, and of course Bunker Blue did not come to Aunt Lu's.
"No, we can't sleep in my auto, nor eat, unless it is to eat candy, or cookies, or something like that," said Aunt Lu. "And I have some sweet crackers for the children, if you think it's all right for them to eat," said Aunt Lu to Mother Brown.
"Oh, yes. I guess it will be all right. They must be hungry, though they ate on the train."
"And Bunny stopped the train, too!" cried Sue. "He pulled on the whistle cord, with mother's parasol, and we stopped so quick we slid out of our seats; didn't we, Bunny?"
"Yep!"
"My! That was quite an adventure," said Aunt Lu, laughing.
"And we went in the choo-choo engine," went on Sue. "I ringed the bell, I did, and so did Bunny. Was you ever in a train, Wopsie?" Sue asked the little colored girl.
"Yes'm, I was once."
"Wopsie came all the way up from down South," said Aunt Lu. "She is a little lost girl."