Six little Bunkers at Grandma Bell'sHope, Laura Lee
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Six little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's
Hope, Laura Lee
Detective and mystery stories; Siblings -- Juvenile fiction
Daddy Bunker, who had started to "count noses," to make sure all his
family was together, ready to start in the automobile with Jerry Simms for
the depot, stopped suddenly when he found that little Margy was not with
the other children. At the same time Mother Bunker also saw that one of
her little girls was missing.
"Where did Margy go?" asked Mrs. Bunker. "I told her not to run back into
the house."
"She didn't," said Norah. "I was standing right by the door all the while,
and she didn't go in."
"Maybe she went in the back way," said Russ.
"The back door is locked," returned Norah. "She must have run down the
street to say good-bye to some of her playmates while the expressman was
loading in the trunks."
"I'll go and look," offered Russ.
"And you look in the back and side yards, Rose," said Mr. Bunker.
Rose ran around to the back yard. A hasty look showed her that her little
sister was not there, and she hurried around to the front porch to tell
her father and mother.
At the same time Russ came back from his trip down the street.
"I didn't see her anywhere," he reported, "and I called, but she didn't
answer."
"Where can the child be?" cried Mrs. Bunker. "Norah, are you sure she
isn't in the house?"
"Positive. But I'll take a look."
Just then Russ cried:
"Here comes the expressman back again. Maybe he forgot some of the
trunks!"
"No, he took them all," said Mr. Bunker. "I don't see----"
The express auto stopped in front of the Bunker house.
"Did you miss anything?" asked the man, laughing.
"Miss anything?" repeated the children's father.
"Oh! Margy! We missed her!" said Mrs. Bunker.
"Well, I guess I've got her here on my truck," went on the expressman,
laughing some more.
"You have my little girl?" cried Mrs. Bunker, "How did she get into your
auto?"
"That I don't know," the expressman said, "but here she is," and he lifted
out the big bundle loosely wrapped in an old blanket. The bundle had in it
the things that wouldn't go in the trunks. It was open at both ends, and
tied with straps and ropes.
Out of one end stuck the dark, and now tangled, curls of Margy Bunker, and
Margy was laughing.
"Oh, what a girl you are!" cried her mother. "How did you get in there,
Margy?"
"I--I wiggled in," was the answer, as the expressman carried the bundle,
little Bunker and all, to the porch. "I wanted to get my rubber ball that
was inside so I just wiggled in, I did."
"Did you really find her in that bundle?" asked Mr. Bunker, as the
expressman put it down on the porch, and Margy, with the help of her
mother, "wiggled" out.
"Yes, she was in there," was the man's answer. "I loaded that bundle on
last, I remember, because it was soft and I didn't want to crush it with
the heavy trunks. It's a good thing I did, though I didn't know there was
a little girl inside."
"How did you find out she was in there?" asked Mrs. Bunker.
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