Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's

went?" Rose demanded of the other childr

," said Margy. "He

ddie. "Mother told us not to,

d raised his own voice to the very

un. Only an old crow cawed in reply, and of course

gain in his excitement,

" gasped Rose. "Y

ve got to find M

of the little boy's disappearance, but he did not want to l

here and help Rose hold

ook for Mun Bun,

Russ, "and we'll all

st, but Russ was strong enough to drag it to the side of the miry pool where the calf was fixed. He rolle

s lumpy), and it did not seem to want to stay in place at all. Russ, however, was very persevering. He was

d them, and Rose and V

cried Laddie, in

uggle much while we are gone," said Rus

we started to see," said Vi. "I saw him start,

r Mun Bun as they went, and hoping he had not got into real trouble. And he had not come t

along the road and at last around a turn, and there was Mun Bun down on his hands and knees in the middle of the

Bun?" cried Rose, first

at once curious when she sa

ng over his shoulder. "But sometimes it

can make a riddle out of that, I k

!" exclaimed Russ,

t the answer. When it walks. That

had ever seen a wood tortoise before, and the box-like, horny shell was not like that of the

to move. Russ did not know but that the tortoise would bite, so he said they had all better go back to the calf. Mun Bun did not like t

here was Tad Munson and with him a man. The man had already dragged th

d not have lost this calf for a good deal. I thank you. I never w

t all! Older folk were always calling him "young staver" and "chip of the old block," and things like that. They didn't mean any harm; but

d the staggering calf away. "Don't mind if he did call you sonny. I gues

id Tad Munson. "But I don't know that I would ever have thought of using the rails

, nodding. "Anyway, it's all over now and the calf is safe again. We

Vi. "And find o

ad so earnestly studied the wood tortoise, the little Bunkers were su

"My turkle is gone. Som

ng you very slyly, and when he saw you had gon

ed," said Mun Bun, in disgust

and he prob'ly thought you might poke his eyes

the spring welled out of the ground and spattered over the lip of the stone basin on top of the big boulder. Ferns gr

ried Mun Bun. "I want to take m

o the Dripping Rock and the excitement about the calf in the mud, added to the walk back

y face and hands washed. And I want bwead and milk

r Mun Bun often took a nap in the early afternoon and mother s

un Bun, who told their elders a

the little Bunkers were sorry to leave Captain Ben and remembered with deligh

like visiting at first. Don't you think so? Almost as thou

ool. But if father goes 'way out West to that Cowboy Jack's, and wi

appen!" cried the oldes

even Russ Bunker could n