"Oh, maybe you can get it!" cried Sue.
"Let's try!" exclaimed Bunny. "Come on, Wopsie. We'll go down to the street and run after my kite."
Down to Aunt Lu's floor went the children. Quickly they told Mother Brown and Aunt Lu what had happened.
"We're going to chase after my kite," said Bunny. "That's what we do in the country when a kite gets loose like mine did."
"But I'm afraid it won't be so easy to run after a kite in the city as it is in the country," said Mother Brown. "There are too many houses here, Bunny. But you may try. Wopsie will go with you, and don't go too far away."
Wopsie knew all the streets about Aunt Lu's house, and could not get lost, so it was safe for Bunny and Sue to go with her. A little later the three were down on the street, running in the direction they had last seen the kite. But they could see it no longer. There were too many houses in the way, and there were no big green fields, as in the country, across which one could look for ever and ever so far.
For several blocks, and through a number of streets, Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, with Wopsie, tried to find the kite. But it was not in sight. They even asked a kind-looking policeman, but he had not seen it.
"I guess we'll have to go back without it," said Bunny, sighing. "But I'll buy another to-morrow."
The children turned to go back to Aunt Lu's house. Bunny and Sue looked about them. They had never been on this street before. It was not as nice as the one where their aunt lived. The houses were just as big, but they were rather shabby looking—like old and ragged dresses. And the people in the street, and the children, were not well dressed. Of course that was not their fault, they were poor, and did not have the money. Perhaps some of them did not even have money enough to get all they wanted to eat.
"I—I don't like it here," whispered Sue to Wopsie. "Let's go home."