But Bunny and Sue were not afraid of getting lost in New York, now. They knew the police would find them, and be kind to them.
Their mother and Aunt Lu had made them say, over and over again, the number of the house, and the name of the street where Aunt Lu lived. The children also had cards with the address on. But the day they went into the animal store they had left their cards at home.
"What shall we do, Bunny?" asked Sue, the day after their trip to Coney Island. "I want to have some fun."
"So do I," said Bunny.
Having fun in the big city of New York was different from playing in the country, on grandpa's farm, or near the water in Bellemere, as Bunny and Sue soon found. But they had many good times at Aunt Lu's, though they were different from those at home. One thing about being in the country, at grandpa's, or at their own home, was that Bunny and Sue could run out alone and look for fun. In New York they were only allowed to go on the street in front of Aunt Lu's house alone. Of course if Aunt Lu, or Mother Brown, or even Wopsie went with them, the children could go farther up or down the street.
"Let's see if we can go out and find Wopsie's aunt to-day," said Bunny to Sue, after they had eaten breakfast.
"All right," agreed the little girl. "Where'll we look?"
"Oh, down in the street," said Bunny. "We'll ask all the colored people we meet if they have lost a little girl. And we could ask at a police station, too, if we knew where there was one."
"Yes," said Sue, "we might ask at the station where we was tooken, after we saw the monkeys and parrots in the animal store."
"But we don't know where that police station is," Bunny said. "I guess we'd just better ask in the street."