Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's

t he was puzzled about the thing he saw-and which Rose had seen first-but at once

nson. "That's John Winsome's red calf. See!

cried Rose. "

hat none of them noticed that Rose was repeating herself. In f

e poor

"For if it is, it's a riddle. Its head and its

said Tad with confidence. "I know that calf, all right. And

that horrid swa

ust wandered

down right now," Ru

t from the edge of the road where the logs were. And the calf had evidently struggled a good d

in tears, "it is asking us to h

!" shouted Tad, and he turned around and ran back alon

s lips were still puckered in a

or the poor calf,

ing the mired creature. No knowing how long Tad would be in finding

dside fence, which was a good deal broken down just at the edge of the open swamp lands. The fence rails were so old and dry that Russ could pull them, one at a time, away from the po

ied Russ, quite excited by the thought that he might b

the Indians used to burn folks?" asked Vi, who remembered something she h

who was very tender-hearted, was too much exci

n those old rails on that wet pl

wn either," Margy said, with much

n, while Rose brought more, Russ began to lay the rails on the quivering mire, side by side but abou

e next tier across them, thus building a platform. It was a shaky platform, but

do that, Russ?" asked Vi curiously. "Won't

excitement, "then you'll be the riddle, Russ. '

lf when I can reach him," their brother said. "I know I c

t sink much under Russ's weight, and he believed he could get within re

calf, his smutched head

se, staggering along with another rai

upon the crisscrossed rails. "I bet I can keep him from sinking a

to do. He balanced himself carefull

i, "your shoes are

an them, can't I

aven't any blacking and

pushed it into the mire just beyond the far end of the platform he had built. The calf bawled again, and struggled some more;

ut of sight. It was poked down right behind the calf's forelegs. Russ thought that

ruggle again, being evidently very much frightened, Russ was able to f

u're doing it

praised him too. All but Mun Bun. He didn't say anything, fo

followed Rose to try to pull a rail off the fence. This was too heavy for Mun Bun, so he had wandered along

sight when Russ, with the help of Rose, bore down on the end of t

?" demanded Rose

the calf, Ru

by the absence of Mun Bun. A dozen things might

ed up and the rail began to tip again

eamed Rose. "He's

itifully. It was a very serious problem to decide. If they ran t