"I—I wonder where they went?" said Sue.
"I don't know," answered Bunny. "Maybe they're lost!"
Sue looked a little frightened at this. The animal-man, seeing the children did not know what to do, came out to them.
"Can't you find your mother?" he asked.
"No," answered Bunny. "She—she's lost!"
"I guess it's you who are lost," said the animal-man. "But never mind. Tell me where you live, and I'll have the police take you home."
Bunny and Sue, when first they came to New York, had been told by their Aunt Lu that if they ever got lost not to be worried or frightened, for a policeman would take them home. So now, when they heard the animal-man speak about the police, they knew what to expect.
"Where do you live, children?" asked the gray-haired animal-man. "Tell me where you live."
But, strange to say, Bunny and Sue had each forgotten. Some days past their aunt and mother had made them learn, by heart, the number and the street where Aunt Lu's house stood. But now, try as they did, neither Bunny nor Sue could remember it. Watching the monkeys and parrots had made them forget, I suppose.
"Don't you know where you live?" asked the animal-man.