"Well, don't ever do it again," said Mr. Bobbsey, and Freddie promised
that he would not.
After this there was a lunch, and then they all went up to Bronx Park,
traveling in the subway, or the underground railway, which seems strange
to so many visitors to New York. But the Bobbsey twins had traveled that
way before, so they did not think it very odd.
"It's just like a big, long tunnel," said Bert, and so the subway is.
The Bronx Park is not such a nice place to visit in winter as it is in
summer, but the children enjoyed it, and they spent some time in the
elephant house, watching the big animals. There was also a hippopotamus
there, and oh! what a big mouth he had. The keeper went in between the
bars of the hippo's cage, with a pail full of bran mash, and cried:
"Open your mouth, boy!"
"Oh, look!" cried Bert.
And, as they looked, the hippopotamus opened his great, big red jaws as
wide as he could, and the man just turned the whole pail full of soft
bran into the hippo's mouth!
"Oh, what a big bite!" cried Freddie, and every one laughed.
"Does he always eat that way?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey of the keeper.
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