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Hence, I do not aspire to be a champion shucker, nor a fortunate finder of red ears of corn."
"It was after we saw Tom shuck some corn to feed the chickens he showed us how he did it," Rose answered. "But what did Russ and Laddie do?" "Oh, they went in and looked at the corn shucker. But they didn't put their hands in and turn the wheel, 'cause Tom said if they did that their fingernails would come off." "Mercy me! I shouldn't want that to happen," said Mrs. Bunker with a laugh.
But, anyhow, Russ said my doll looked like an ear of corn, so he asked me to let him take her to shuck off her buttons." "And did you?" asked Mrs. Bunker. "Yes'm, I did, Mother. He and Laddie put my doll in the corn shucker and they started to turn the wheel. Then I thought maybe my doll would be hurt, and I wanted her back again. But they wouldn't give her to me, so I came to tell you!"
"They ought not to shuck all the buttons off my doll!" "Are you doing that, Russ?" asked his mother. "Yes'm. But Rose said we could, and then, after she let us take her doll, she wanted it back, and we can't get her out till she goes through the shucker and all her buttons come off. Then she'll pop out the other spout like an ear of corn." "Here she comes!" shouted Laddie.
In the corn shucker, where Tom shucks the ears of corn for the chickens." Mrs. Bunker didn't yet quite know what Rose meant, for the mother of the six little children had not been out to the corn crib, and did not know what was there. "It's my middle-sized doll," explained Rose. "Please come and take her away from Russ and Laddie 'fore they shuck off all her buttons.
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