"I—I thought I had money enough," and Bunny looked at his four pennies.
The manager laughed. He had found Aunt Lu's name in the telephone book, and had talked to her, telling her about Bunny and Sue. And then, as the restaurant was just around the corner from Aunt Lu's house, Mrs. Brown had hurried there to get her children.
She paid for what they had eaten, and took them back with her. The waitress girl smiled, so did the manager, and so did many persons in the restaurant, who had seen Bunny and Sue eating.
"Don't ever do anything like this again, Bunny," said Mrs. Brown.
"I won't," Bunny promised. "But we went to the fire, and we were awful hungry; weren't we, Sue?"
"Yes, we was. And the hot cakes was good."
"Oh dear!" sighed Mrs. Brown. "I wonder what it will be next."
But even Bunny Brown and his sister Sue did not know.
For several weeks the two children stayed at Aunt Lu's city home. They had more good times, and often went with their mother or Aunt Lu to the moving pictures. Then, too, there was much to see on the city streets, and Bunny and Sue never grew tired of looking at the strange sights. Daddy Brown wrote letters, saying he was so busy, looking after his boat business, that he could not come to see them for a long time.
"Does he say how Splash, our dog, is?" asked Bunny, when part of one of his father's letters had been read to him and Sue.