Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's

med, indeed, as though the whole roof was broken in and that gradually the house must be flattened

id of the shrieking Vi and Mun Bun. They were both caught under some of the fallen r

ity more than other boys of his age might have done. Anyway, when the others needed help, Russ's first

ht him quite wonderful when it came to planning new means of amusement and building such things as play automobiles and boats and steam-car trains. It was quite impossib

h a merry whistle on his lips, and quite faithful to the trust his parents

ones really had to do this-or else there would have been no fun for any of them. You see, if the older children in a family will not c

er Bunker a good deal; and she took pride in so doing. That she was afraid of "thunder strokes" mu

looked for long in any party. Violet was much given to asking questions, and she asked so many and steadily that scarcely anybody troubled t

was very small. Not that he was very large now, but he could make a tremendous amount of noise when he was-or thoug

ll started on a most wonderful vacation which took them first to the children's mother's

re than arrived home at Pineville after their fifth series of adventures, than Captain Ben, a distant relative of Mother Bunker's, and recently in the war, came along

ery September day when an equinoctial storm had been blowing for twenty-four hours or more and the ligh

the rate Vi and Mun Bun were screaming, the accident which held them pr

ds were broken at the head of the stairs, and almost the first thing that happened to him when he got up there into the dust and the darkness-ye

ything he could lay his hands on, and all b

with one hand. He could not see her in the dark, but he knew those curls

fall on my legs, Russ? Must you

o be quite as immovable as Vi. And perhaps Russ would have b

tside, and the rapid pounding of feet. The door below

re I am-and Captain Ben,

e three little Bunkers who remained there. But Dadd

d Vi and Mun Bun?"

under stroke," gasped Margy. "But I

a very vigorous young man, being both a soldie

t the stairs. The dust had settled to some degree by this time, and they could see the str

hing. Captain Ben took Vi from Russ and Daddy Bunker rele

ing wildly. Laddie loo

aid, "you're a

obbed the li

"This is the riddle: Why is M

ing Vi down on the floor. "It's because Mun B

nly he hiccoughed too. It did not take much to m

ave to do that?" asked Vi. "Why d

out of the old house. He was a

dn't go away out West to Cowboy Jack's and leave

t from the effects of the storm. They looked at each other quite knowingly. That was

hand, "are you going so far away from us all?

hat?" asked Vi. "Is he

lied to Rose's quest

g journey, and you know school will soon begi

take us 'most everywhere you go. It-it wouldn't be fa

ggestion, and hurried them all through