Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's

ook that ran through the green meadow. It was just like t

ing happen, Russ?"

ox to take some of my things to Grandma Bell's,

g a ri

wered. "He kept saying: 'What made the boa

le, and that nothing has h

h. "Anyhow, I can see the two children!" and she pointed acro

ng in the water. And the something was Vi though she appeared to be out in the mid

e?" asked his mother. "Ha

s sunk," was the answer. "O

t a time like this!" cried Mrs. B

answered. "The boat did sink

on the brook, unless the boy

Vi was riding in it, but it sank,"

t had happened. Out in the middle, standing in a soap box, was Violet. The little girl

sunk!" he said ov

t Vi was in no danger. "We'll get her out. Why didn't

ybe something was ou

e? What do you mean

k-something that pulled it down in the w

nker. "There are only littl

de the boat sink!

nker. "Come on," she called to the little girl. "Wade to sho

es, Mo

shore. You'r

d started for shore. The box floated down the brook, and Russ ran out o

Bunker to her little girl, as Vi

I made the boat out of a box. Then Vi went for

aught the soap box as it floated down to him. "Look! It let in a lot of wat

ger. He had pushed her out from shore, hoping to give her a nice ride, but in the middle of the stream the boat went down, and Vi was frightened-or maybe just cross

ading in the brook won't hurt you. Only don't upset and fall in. I don't beli

ing about boats. "You got to stuff up all

ow. "I like a boat. I'll give you a nice ride,

y more," said the little girl, who was wading in

said Laddie, taking the box from his

uss. "He was putting a new window glass in

erry, and Vi, after paddling about a little longer in th

oo," decided Russ. "I can fix t

s were building "boats" out of soap boxes, stuffing t

They did not sink so quickly as had the one with Vi in i

ed rescue Mun Bun from a balloon and Vi from a sinking boat that wasn't a riddle after all." And the whole fa

early, and there is a nice moving picture show in town. W

Let's go!"

o the

the show was over, and might have had to be carried home, only Jerry Simms came along in the au

automobile with us to Gr

d. "But we can hire one there if we ne

Mrs. Bunker. "Mother is old-fashioned.

there, anyhow, won

pe so," his fa

g his box for his things, and Laddie started to make one also. But he couldn't

ne," he said. "I'll put my

t be room. But I'll make you a box for your own

nker said there would be no room in the trunks for anything else if she took all the youngster

randma Bell's. Daddy Bunker had left one of his men in char

ired lumber tramp that took your p

" answered

happen that way,

aine, the Bunkers would have to travel all of one afternoon, all night and

a lot of fun!" s

lots!" s

many things which needed to be taken

p up all the extra things in a bundle and roll 'em i

is wa

the front porch for the expressman, and when he came the six little Bunkers,

r, when the expressman had started toward the d

ho gathered to see the party off, Mrs. Bunker started for

"Wait until I count noses. Let me see

s. Bunker ut

here is

She was not with the