Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's

ey for them in an automobile. Mr. Bunker, with the four bigger little Bunkers (doesn't that sound

all to themselves, and felt themselves quite grown-up travelers. Russ and Laddie were in a second bed in Mr. Bunker's room, and in the

!" cried Ru

w that it was not a dog jumping all over

e younger boy. "If you don't stop I'll

Laddie. "Am

guess. But you were sle

calf was pulling me down into the mud to ta

e?" asked his b

not a dream?" ask

't know,"

," declared Laddi

had snuggled down into his

die, "I guess that wasn't a

the Bunker yard mother and Norah, the cook, besides Mun Bun and Margy, we

trike!" crie

to school!"

n-strike?" asked

h," said Rose, harking back to their exci

id it hurt them-like it did Mun Bu

aid Margy. "And the sch

tood this. What had a coal strike

hey had been down at Grand View. Of course, it happened in quite a number of other places at the same ti

oming of cold weather when the furnace should be started. B

delivery of coal in cars to Pineville was stopped. The coal dealers in the town

st's scepter. That meant that soon it would be so cold that little boys and girls could not sit in the big ro

o the town for another month. Of course there will be no school," Mother Bunker said de

me the other people will feel the same about t

ly!" cri

older folks, as well as the childre

a coal strike is bully? Why can't we h

ntion, which of course was not unus

aid. "You reason from the cause of a lack of coa

" Rose said, a little doubtfully

is going to that Cowboy Jack's. And if we can't go to school

us, seeing very plainly now what Russ had

other Bunker said soberly. "Still, Charles, mayb

unker quite soberly. "Anyway, I shall not start for the Southw

time an expert in making quick preparations for leavin

ds in a ferment. They were so excited and so much interested in the possibility of goi

be able perhaps to pronounce the name of the man D

Russ, "maybe I won't h

lls him Cowboy Jack. Daddy has met him and likes him, and he told m

they have little boys and girls dow

id Russ. "So he likes o

T OUT THEIR COWBOY

ers at Cowboy J

d Indian suits and having Norah mend them. Of course they

ix little Bunkers off to the Southwest almost as soon as they

y the Pineville school might not arrive before November. At leas

oliday of it, Charles," said Mo

ing about with the children. Russ and Rose were so helpful, too, th

bathing suits, Mo

or we are not going to the sea

hings forgotten. The children really did not have time to "count up

tation, with Norah and Jerry waving good-bye on the platform, was out of s

ve lost it!

u lost?"

h!" gasp

ew wrist watch?" asked Mo

ghed Rose. "I-I

cried Ladd

at it by pulling it out to its full length and

you, Laddie?" asked Daddy

e had spoken. "I-I don't see my new stick-pin. I