CHAPTER PAGE I. AN ESKIMO IGLOO 1 II. THE SNOWMAN 12 III. UNCLE SAM'S NEPHEW 21 IV. DADDY'S NEWS 30 V. OFF FOR SUMMER SEAS 41 VI. THE SEA-EAGLE 51 VII. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS 66 VIII. A GREAT DEAL OF EXCITEMENT 79 IX. RUSS'S SECRET 87 X. CHARLESTON AND THE FLEET 94 XI. THE MEIGGS PLANTATION 105 XII. MAMMY JUNE 117 XIII. THE CATFISH 127 XIV. MAMMY JUNE HELPS 136 XV. WHEN CHRISTMAS IS FOURTH OF JULY 146 XVI. A LETTER AND A BIG LIGHT 156 XVII. MAMMY JUNE IN PERIL 166 XVIII. THE TWINS IN TROUBLE 175 XIX. IN MAMMY JUNE'S ROOM 183 XX. GOOSEY-GOOSEY-GANDER 194 XXI. ROSE HAS AN IDEA 202 XXII. THE STRANGE CRY 210 XXIII. A FOUR-LEGGED GHOST 218 XXIV. AN EXCITING TIME 227 XXV. THAT PIGEON WING 235 [Illustration: MAMMY JUNE TREATS THE CHILDREN TO A "TAFFY PULL." _Six Little Bunkers at Mammy Junes._ _Frontispiece_--(_Page_ 142)] SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT MAMMY JUNE'S CHAPTER I AN ESKIMO IGLOO "How could William get the croup that way?" Violet asked with much emphasis. Of course, Vi was always asking questions--so many questions, indeed, that it was often impossible for her elders to answer them all; and certainly Rose and Russ Bunker, who were putting together a "cut-up" puzzle on the table, could not be bothered by Vi's insistence. "I don't see how he could have got the croup that way," repeated the smaller girl. There were six of the little Bunkers, and Vi and Laddie were twins. She said to Laddie, who was looking on at the puzzle making: "Do you know how William did it, Laddie?" Laddie, whose real name wasn't "Laddie" at all, but Fillmore Bunker, shook his head decidedly. "I don't know," he told his twin sister. "Not unless it is a riddle: 'How did William get the croup?'" "He hasn't got the croup," put in Rose, for just a moment giving the twins her attention. "Why--ee!" cried Vi. "Aunt Jo said he had!" "She didn't," returned Rose rather shortly and not at all politely. "She did so!" rejoined Vi instantly, for although she and Rose loved each other very much they were not always in agreement. Vi's gray eyes snapped she was so vexed. "Aunt Jo said that a window got broke in--in the neu-ral-gi-a and William had to drive a long way yesterday and the wind blew on him and he got the croup." "Was that the way of it?" said Laddie, thoughtfully. "Wait a minute, Vi. I've most got it----"