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Updated: June 29, 2025
They got off the train, and Cousin Tom, who was waiting for them, hurried up, all smiles. Behind him came his pretty wife. "Oh, I'm so glad to see you!" said Cousin Ruth. "Are all the six little Bunkers here?" Cousin Tom wanted to know, with a grin. "Every one!" answered Mother Bunker. "But we nearly lost Margy. She crawled under a fruit stand after a kitten. Where is she now?
As the launch steamed away, carrying Kennedy and two other shipmates who had been overcome by heat, there was a lump in many a throat. It was not until almost dark the next day that the bunkers were filled. Shortly after ten the "Yankee" passed the fleet off Santiago. The electric searchlights in use on the ships nearer shore made a particularly brilliant display.
Every time, though, we find some new lichen that's trying to set up a symbiote cycle with the concrete of our bunkers." "And every time," Ringg said cheerfully, "somebody usually me has to see about having them scraped down and repainted. Maybe someday I'll find a paint the lichens don't like the taste of." "Going to explore with Ringg?"
"He ought to want to come back to see Mammy June," declared Russ warmly. "I think she is just fine." "So do I," admitted Rose reflectively. "But I wouldn't want to be called by such a name as Sneezer." It was when they got back to the big house and around to its front that the two oldest little Bunkers became aware that something was happening down by the road.
They were now off the coal bunkers of Long Wharf, and the boy put the skiff about, heading toward San Francisco. They were well out in the open bay. The west wind had strengthened and was whitecapping the strong ebb tide. The boat drove merrily along. When splashes of spray flew aboard, wetting them, Saxon laughed, and the boy surveyed her with approval.
With such a large number of hands on board, allowing nine seamen in each watch, the ship is easily worked, and Meares and Oates have their appointed assistants to help them in custody of dogs and ponies, but on such a night as the last with the prospect of dirty weather, the 'after guard' of volunteers is awake and exhibiting its delightful enthusiasm in the cause of safety and comfort some are ready to lend a hand if there is difficulty with ponies and dogs, others in shortening or trimming sails, and others again in keeping the bunkers filled with the deck coal.
But he had lost the nimble impulse to chat about little things, and also his look of peering and innocent curiosity. As now he did not come to our table, the others spoke of Billingsgate carriers, such as ours, which had driven about the Dogger till there was no more in the bunkers than would take them to Hull to get more coal.
And after that I had to get the forge in order, and to bring up fuel for it from the coal bunkers. And in attending to all these various matters the time slipped away so quickly that a whole week had passed before I had done.
Bunker, for her husband sometimes did business at his home in the evening, and had a desk in the sitting-room. "Perhaps they are," said the father of the six little Bunkers. "That is why I came home so early to look." He went into the house, followed by his wife and Russ and Rose. Mr. Bunker stepped over to his desk, and began looking through it.
It was some cleaning. Every flat-car, box-car, coach, asthmatic switch engine, and even hand-car that mob of Spiggoties had shoved off the dock into sixty feet of water on top of the Governor Hancock. They'd burnt the round house, set fire to the coal bunkers, and made a scandal of the repair shops. Oh, yes, and there were three of our fellows they'd got that we had to bury mighty quick.
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