Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's

nside, he saw, by the dim light that streamed in, that Mun Bun was not wi

s. Bunker, sitting up in bed. She looked at

leeping with me, but, all of a sudden,

en when he went to go back again, he couldn't find the place where you were, and he's

es up and finds you gone, she'll cry and disturb the whole car

f the train, Mr. Bunker softly opened the curtains of the berth next to that in

th his sisters, though often, at home, when he had been

Russ are sleeping," said Mr. Bu

t in the berth wit

t, Mr. Bunker went back to his wife's berth. She was s

him?" whispere

th Russ or Rose.

the car, and wanted to know if there was any trouble. The porter was supposed

the matter, sir?" h

y, who was sleeping with me, is missing," s

e sleeping?" asked the porter, for, having traveled with the

his sisters or brother

th!" exclaimed Mrs. Bunker. "That'

a sound of relief in his voice.

sleeping by himself, and when Daddy Bunker pulled open t

as there been an accident-a smash

ered Mr. Bunker in a low voice, so as not to disturb the other passengers. "I thou

have felt him if he had come into my

ed out into the aisle of the car. Then he and Daddy

s?" asked Mrs. Bunker in

wasn't w

find him!" she exclaimed, as she pok

r, "'cause we hasn't stopped for a long while, and the doors

ep, or something like that, and he's in with some one else he has mistaken for

the car, to ask them if Mun Bun is

exclaimed his wife. "

e train, for some of them were sure to be cross. They might blame him for their loss of sleep, and

hat we can do,"

sked Dadd

off, we can wait until morning. He surely is in some berth, and is, very like

have him found, even if we have to wake up e

the porter

t at one end, an' you two gen'mens can start at the other end o

to make this search a voice from

ore an old-fashioned night-cap on his head, which he s

ly exclaimed

asked Uncle Fred, turn

had climbed in bed with me, as he sometimes does when I'm at home. In my sleep I put out my hand and I felt some soft, c

sh-light, and pressed the switch. There I saw a sma

!" exclaimed Mrs. Bunke

th the night-cap had spoken. There, surely enough,

said Daddy Bunker. "

grown up now, and gone to war. I'm old and bald-headed-that's why I wear this night-cap, on account of my bald head," he

d be frightened if he found himself in a strange bed.

ow never awakened. His father took him back to his own berth. Uncle

d him back, but slept on. Only he murmured

red Daddy Bunker, as he softly kissed the little sleeping fellow

the funny thing that had happened to Mun Bun in the n

p," said his mother, "though I n

probably w

ere he was with his father. If he was awake he did not remember it. He must have toddled down the aisle of the car, all by himself, and then have

breakfast the next morning. "I wouldn't have liked to get all the passengers a

hobble?" a

o know. She was not going to let R

to keep them from straying away," said the r

their sleep?" Viole

ncle Fred. "I never saw any, and

?" asked Violet

queried, for he had turned asid

ep?" asked Violet. "Mun Bun walked

unning in the day time," said Mrs. Bunker

n Bun walking in his sleep, if I can th

d save it for the cowboys out a

ne about what do the tickets do when the conductor

wboys," laughed Uncle Fred. "Well, it won

mall town, but it had the name of being a city. The children did not have mu

, or buckboard, and the horses started off. Through the town they went, and t

Three Star Ranch, and it was just get

he jumped from the wagon and began helping down his sis

Indians?" ask

unded with the firing of what the children thought must be

Bang! Bang!" sou