the sand and of Sunny Boy's experiences in sailing boats, and
especially about the time he drifted out to sea in a rowboat all by
himself. His mother and daddy, in another boat, found him, though, and
Sunny Boy thought he would like to be a sea captain like the kind
Captain Franklin who ran the motor-boat which caught up with him just
as he was beginning to be very much afraid he was lost.

Sunny Boy knew that he could not be a sea captain before he was grown
up, and long before that, the very next month, in fact, Daddy and
Mother Horton took him to New York City, and, dear me, didn't he find
adventures there! He was lost twice and he took his mother shopping
and he visited Central Park and the Statue of Liberty and he saw so
many things that he kept remembering them long after he was home again.
"Sunny Boy in the Big City" is the title of this third book, and the
traffic policemen interested him so much that he thought he would put
off being a sea captain till he had tried to be a policeman.

In fact the traffic policemen interested Sunny Boy so much that he
taught the children on his street to play a game called "City" when he
came home from New York, and in this game Sunny Boy was always a
policeman. You may have read of how he played "City" in the fourth
book about him called "Sunny Boy In School and Out." It was in this
book, too, that Sunny Boy made the acquaintance of the big policeman
whom he had seen at the skating pond.

Sunny Boy thought of this big policeman as soon as he was safely on
shore and as soon as he said perhaps his grandpa was drowned and the
big boy had told him no one was drowned--"some of 'em may have been
walked on a little, but no one is drowned, I tell you," he said
earnestly. Sunny Boy wished he could find this kind man in the blue