Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's

at they liked to have things happen-that is, unpleasant things-but the father and the mother knew

ad come! Margy wa

on the boat with us

he looked quickly around the deck. "I s

e steamer has not moved away from the dock, maybe she ra

gy go away

to go off by hersel

ne took her-maybe a

imed Rose. "Are t

what Russ had said might frighten the children. "No one ha

argy was doing this, but he said i

y. I'll find her in a jiffy, which is very quick time, indeed," he told the children. "Run along no

with you, Dadd

r than I can, and if we find Margy playing tag with some of the other litt

t he had to say something so the others would not be frightened. And, to tell

her husband, as she started down the stairs for the sta

rels were still being put into the hold, or "cellar," of the steamer, which would soon start for Boston.

we'll find her,"

r of them were tired and sleepy. As Mrs. Bunker went down the stairs with the four little Bunkers, she

o worked on the steamer, and asked them if they had seen a little girl ab

said he had not seen the little l

down on the next dec

use. Russ and his father went downstairs, and as they started to look on the lower deck

" asked this man, who was a ma

l," said Mr. Bunker. "She has wan

little girl?"

l," answered

she have

rly. "Oh, have you seen he

, and I looked in," went on the mate. "On the bunk, which is what we call the beds on a steamer," he told Russ, "I saw a

. Bunker. "Then I'm afraid it can't be my

dy, and that's why she didn

went on the mate. "She seems to be all alo

Bunker. "But I hardly

hand so the little boy would not get los

And there, on the clean, white bunk, curled up with one arm around a white poodle

Margy!" exc

he added to the captain's helper. "Now we are

aid the mate. "And I was going to tell th

e poodle dog raised up his head, opened one eye, and w

to worry. I'm taking care of Mar

n the bunk! Poor, tired,

tly, as he took her up in his arms. "We were

head down on her father's shoulder. "He was a little white dog

where she was trying to tell

aid Mr. Bunker. "I'll carry her to her mot

le dog. He just looked up, with one eye, when he saw Mr. Bunker carr

as he walked back with his father to where M

m," said Ma

Mrs. Bunker, as she s

ther stateroom, and had gone

le dog was asleep wi

dog?" demanded Laddie, wh

uss said. And then his father

leepy to talk, so her mother un

the morning what

Mr. and Mrs. Bunker were no longer worried. They all went to bed, and the

were dressed they went out on deck. They had

he helped her mother pick up some of the things th

we haven't yet heard what happened to Margy. Why did you

hen she told how it had happened, though they had

ttle Bunkers, had seen the white poodle dog running about the deck. She made friends with him,

p on the bed. Margy did the same thing, and then they both fell asleep. Through

t do it again,

e promised. "But he was

know, for they had seen the white poo

"We're going to Aunt Jo's, an

" laughed Margy.

a dog, real

e," returne

s were riding through the Boston str