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It ain't every day a little gell tumbles into our coal bunker outer the sky, is it, Bill? What did you DO it for eh?" "That's the point," agreed the engine-driver; "what did you do it FOR?" Bobbie found that she had not quite stopped crying. The engine-driver patted her on the back and said: "Here, cheer up, Mate. It ain't so bad as all that 'ere, I'll be bound."
"So I rolled the barrel and joggled it and " "And then it fell in!" added Rose. "I saw it." "I felt it," remarked Russ, rubbing his back. "But it didn't hurt me much," he added. "I guess the barrel was so old and dry that it couldn't hold together when you two boys got to playing with it," said Mrs. Bunker. "Well, I'm glad it was no worse. At first it sounded as though the house was coming down.
Bunker showed her a big map of the whole country, and there Lucy found the river, and the roads, and the names of the villages near, as she had seen or heard of them; and she began to understand that a map or globe really brought distant places into an exceedingly small picture, and that where she saw a name and a spot she was to think of houses and churches; that a branching black line was a flowing river full of water; a curve in, a pretty bay shut in with rocks and hills; a point jutting out, generally a steep rock with a lighthouse on it.
It was a part of the tent the boys had not yet unfolded, or straightened out. Splash stood near this and barked. Then he began poking in it with his sharp nose. "He he's found something," said Ben. "Maybe it's Sue," cried Bunker. "Come on!" Taking hold of Bunny's hand, Bunker ran with him toward the pile of canvas. The other boys ran too.
It was the voice of a woman, and she said: "Oh, that isn't Tommie! Where is he? Where is Tommie?" "I guess that explains the mystery," said Mr. Bunker with a smile. "The two boys are mixed up. We have Tommie whatever his other name is at our table, and Mun Bun must have gone down there," and he pointed to the table where the woman had called for Tommie.
And he spent all his money and did not know how to get down there where the fleet will be in winter quarters, he says, unless he went secretly on one of these steamers." "He is stealing his passage, then?" asked Daddy Bunker. "I suppose he is, Daddy," said Russ, ruefully enough. "He is in a boat, all covered up with canvas. Up there on the deck. I can show you.
From this day he made up his mind to perform his part in the coming contest as a soldier, not as a physician, nor in any civil capacity; and accordingly on the fourteenth of June, 1775, the Massachusetts legislature elected him "second Major General of the Massachusetts army." Before he had received his commission occurred the battle of Bunker Hill, June seventeenth.
“ ‘No,’ ” replied Heywood, and the same question was put to A. E. Bunker, teller, and Frank J. Wilcox, assistant bookkeeper, each of whom made the same reply. “ ‘You are the cashier,’ said the robber, turning upon Heywood, who was sitting at the cashier’s desk. ‘Open that safe—quick or I’ll blow your head off.’ ”
A bunker is a hazard, such as a fence, wall, hedge, depression, or trees. The ground between the holes should be cleared as far as possible of all obstructions. Hazards are not objected to by good players, as they add to the sport. The game called "singles" is where two players, each with his own ball, play against each other.
Lander alone had worried the Confederate outposts, driven in their advanced detachments, and drawn supplies from the Virginian farms. Banks had been over-cautious and inactive, and Jackson had not failed to note his characteristics. March 9. Up to March 9 the Federal general, keeping his cavalry in rear, had pushed forward no farther than Charlestown and Bunker Hill.
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