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"Come up here!" cried Mun Bun again, and continued to beckon to him through the glass of the outer door. Margy held up her coat and cap, and beckoned to the boy also. He looked much puzzled as he slowly climbed the steps. His lips moved and the children knew he asked: "What yo' want of me, child'en?" Mun Bun tugged at the outer door eagerly, and finally it flew open.
From the way Mammy described her youngest son, even the children recognized him as Sam the chore boy at Aunt Jo's in Boston. Mun Bun and Margy, when the matter was quite settled that Sam was Sneezer, began to take great pride in the fact that it was their bright eyes that had first spied the colored boy walking in the snow and had been the first to invite him into Aunt Jo's house.
"I guess I will, too," said Laddie. "I can think of a riddle the next time." A little later the children heard a voice asking: "Well, are you having a good time?" They looked up to see Daddy and Mother Bunker walking toward them through the woods. "Oh, we're having lots of fun!" said Rose, who had been amusing Vi, Margy and Mun Bun. "And we almost found your lost papers," added Russ.
"All right, I'll get you!" cried the little boy, and he grasped hold of his sister's arm. She had stepped into a little sandy hole, and the water came up half way to her knees. Of course that was not very deep, and when Margy saw she was not going to sink down very far she was no longer frightened. "But I was scared till you grabbed hold of me," she said to Mun Bun. "Is it very deep any more?"
The little folks, Margy and Mun Bun, were in the first stateroom with Mother. Already the twins were fast asleep in the second stateroom. Rose was going to sleep with Vi in the lower berth and Russ was to crawl in beside Laddie in the upper. But Russ did not seem in a hurry to undress and go to bed. Mother brushed Rose's hair for her and the girl got ready for bed in the larger stateroom.
The seats in the lobster boat were broad and high, and on one of them Margy and Mun Bun, who was soon lifted off the island to her side, were safe from the lobsters, which Mr. Burnett had taken from his pots, some miles out at sea. "How did you come to go on the island when the tide was rising?" asked the fisherman, as he started his boat once more.
What do you think of that?" It was pretty hard for Mother Bunker to say what she thought of it because of the gleeful shouts of the children. It did not much matter to Russ, and Rose, and Violet, and Laddie, and Margy, and Mun Bun where they went with Daddy Bunker. It was just the idea of going to some new place and to have new adventures.
They'll be all right." Rose laid her doll down on the sand and the others did the same, so that there were four Japanese dolls in a row. "Won't the waves come up and get 'em?" asked Margy as she looked back on the dolls.
Mun Bun and Margy had to tell their story over again several times and they had to answer many questions from their brothers and sisters, about how they felt when they saw the water coming up. Of course the two smallest of the six little Bunkers had been in some danger, though if Mr. Burnett had not seen them and rescued them, some one else might have done so.
And when the dog got tired of splashing out in the water to bring back the stick and tow the raft, Laddie and Russ, in their bare feet, pulled it themselves, giving Rose, Vi, Margy and Mun Bun rides along the shore. They had lots of fun, and thought Lake Sagatook the nicest place in all the world to spend part of their vacation. Daddy Bunker and Mother Bunker liked it, too.
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