Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's

e took up the shovel, "w

were going to make a

ou have to have some place for the f

eed Laddie, who w

untain is? It has a big basin where the water splashes in out of a thing li

make that kind of a fo

e in it and run it full of water and then we can paddle in it-I mean in the h

d Laddie. "I'll get a s

s began to make their fountain. If their father and mother had been at home, or even Aunt Jo had seen them, I don't suppos

n the garden. They tossed the dirt out with their shovels, a

enough now?" asked L

as he looked up from wh

back aches," L

most everybody tired. We'll only dig a little more, and then we can run the wa

ave I," sa

le in the garden, and then Russ went to get the hose. It was

h Aunt Jo had not spoken of it, either, still, I feel sure William would have stopped Laddie and Russ from making their fountain if he had seen them. But he did not. He was doing so

so it sticks up straight," said Russ. "Then I'll turn the

fun!" excl

stand up straight in the hole he and his brother had dug. Then the bo

how to

asked

ticking up. Then I can tie the end of the hose to it, sticking up in the air, you know, a

Laddie. But you just w

mer, he drove this stick down into the soft dirt, leaving enoug

to "play" as it is called. I suppose the water bubbling up and down

urn it on," said Russ whe

m going to get my shoes and stockings off now," and he sa

ose was screwed on the faucet. He tried to turn the brass handle.

ed Russ. "You've got to h

my other shoe o

an take your shoe off afterwards, while we'

nished what he was doing, and had gone to the house to ask Parker something. He did not notice what Laddie and Russ were doing, but on h

n't leave the hose like that, and I don't believe Alexis cou

le Bunkers, walked over to the hose. He saw it stick

and Russ. I wonder what they're g

hose, that Russ and Laddie managed to turn the

the end, right in William's face. But of co

back, but not quite far enough, for he stumbled over some of the dirt, and fell do

t! Shut off the wa

which they intended for a fountain, and saw the chauffeur getting wet. William's legs s

off the water!" he begge

ing in a hurry you can't, so it happened with the two boys. The faucet wouldn't turn, and the water kept on spurting, and W

pping chauffeur, but he was not

fountain we ma

addie. "Oh, look, Russ! It squirts fine

, was sending out a fine shower of water that sparkled in the

o?" asked William, wipin

ountain," explained Laddie.

a mud-hole, and you'll get all dirty. Your father and mother wouldn't want that. I guess I'd better shut off the water.

ed. After all their work not to h

aid Russ, thinking perhaps Will

don't mind. These are my old clothes, a

addie and Russ had dug was half full, and would have made,

at the faucet, ready to turn it off, a loud barking was heard, and into the g

ok!" cr

mething els