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=GROSSET & DUNLAP=, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

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Copyright, 1918, by GROSSET & DUNLAP

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_Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's_

[Illustration: THEY SAW HIM LIFT FROM THE WATER A BIG FISH.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. ALL UPSET 1

II. DADDY BUNKER'S WORRY 11

III. GRANDMA'S LETTER 22

IV. FOURTH OF JULY 32

V. THE TRAMP 42

VI. MUN BUN'S BALLOON 52

VII. LADDIE'S NEW RIDDLE 63

VIII. "WHERE IS MARGY?" 72

IX. ROSE'S DOLL 82

X. THE WRONG DADDY 92

XI. THE FUNNY VOICE 100

XII. RUSS COULDN'T STOP 109

XIII. THE RED-HAIRED MAN 121

XIV. THE DOLL'S BUTTONS 129

XV. LADDIE'S QUEER RIDE 139

XVI. MUN BUN SEES SOMETHING 150

XVII. A RED COAT 160

XVIII. LADDIE AND THE SUGAR 170

XIX. DOWN IN THE WELL 179

XX. THE DOG-CART 190

XXI. RUSS HEARS NEWS 197

XXII. OFF ON A TRIP 208

XXIII. THE LUMBERMAN'S CABIN 216

XXIV. THE OLD COAT 226

XXV. "HURRAY!" 236

SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT GRANDMA BELL'S

CHAPTER I

ALL UPSET

"There! It's all done, so I guess we can get on and start off! All aboard!
Toot! Toot!" Russ Bunker made a noise like a steamboat whistle. "Get on!"
he cried.

"Oh, wait a minute! I forgot to put the broom in the corner," said Rose,
his sister. "I was helping mother sweep, and I forgot to put the broom
away. Wait for me, Russ! Don't let the boat start without me!"

"I won't," promised the little boy, as he tossed back a lock of dark hair
which had straggled down over his eyes. They were dark, too, and, just
now, were shining in eagerness as he looked at a queer collection of a
barrel, a box, some chairs, a stool and a few boards, piled together in
the middle of the playroom floor.

"The steamboat will wait for you, Rose," Russ Bunker went on. "But hurry
back," and he began to whistle a merry tune as he moved a footstool over
to one side. "That's one of the paddle-wheels," he told his smaller
brother Laddie, whose real name was Fillmore, but who was always called
Laddie. "That's a paddle-wheel!"

"Why doesn't it go 'round then?" asked Violet, Laddie's twin sister. "Why
doesn't it go 'ro