Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's

nker, looking out in

ed Rose, stand

hew!" echoed Laddie, wh

e to see over the high windowsill. Mun Bun could not

the very good reason that they had never before been at the seashore d

funny word, anyway

unny?" Vi

iddle out of it

quite confidently. "For 'equinox

id Laddie promptly. "That

s-the wind blew so hard, the rain came in such big gusts, flattening the white-capped waves which they could see, both from Captain Ben's bungalow and from this old house to

ed Vi, not a little frightened by th

eclared Ladd

claim more courage than he really felt. At any rate, h

tain Ben's house-and mother," sug

e as bravely as before. Like Laddie (whose name really was Fillm

ile it rains like this," sai

p and not rain any more, so we came," announced

f thunder se

hat Norah or Jerry Simms would c

mms aren't here," Vi re

. It can be the clearing-up showe

t?" as

ite impossible to answer them all, so, for the most part, nobody trie

said, very sensibly. "Then we won'

Russ. "I don't mind the thun

, "it's the thunder that

under hit yo

ger brothers and sisters. Russ was nine, and Daddy Bunker and mother expected him to set a good example to Rose a

uss's ear, "I wish we hadn't come over from Captain Ben's bunga

y, "it thunders over there just

t. But nothing seemed quite so bad whe

n," she said, wi

Violet. "Haven't we pla

-some time or oth

who was of an inventive mind. "Ther

make up a riddle about this old storm-if only the thunder would

indows harder than ever. And there were places in the roof of this a

drop fell. "It's leaking! I don't lik

shouted Russ, for he could not make his voice

here mother is-and daddy," proclaimed the smallest

we'd better go downstairs and play

we play?" as

d take you all to ride," sai

You can't!"

e rode down here in from Pineville?" a

Russ. "But we'll have some fun with it

ounger children forget their fears. She started down the steep stairs behind Russ. Laddie

roof, and the flash of lightning that came with it almost blinded the children. There was even a

e that overhung the house. The tree trunk was splintered right down from the top, and before t

as there was! Rose could not stifle her shriek. She and Margy

he oldest of the six little Bunkers,

up!" shrieked V

ery much frightened too. "S

hands and looking at Russ. "That old roof has f