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 over a can of ashes on the street, and take from it a piece of dried bread, which he began to eat as though very hungry indeed.
"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!"