on my head."
"Well, as long as it wasn't a bump you're lucky," said Russ with a laugh.
Vi pulled her doll out from under the pile of barrel staves. The doll's
bathing-dress was torn, but Rose said that didn't matter because it was an
old one anyhow.
"What made it break?" asked Vi as she did this. "Did somebody hit your
steamboat, Russ? Or did it just sink?"
"I guess it sank all right," Russ answered, laughing.
"Well, what made it?" went on Vi.
"Oh, my dear! Don't ask so many questions," begged Mrs. Bunker.
"I got a new riddle," announced Laddie, as he rubbed his leg where it had
been a little scratched on a box. "It's a riddle about a wheelbarrow
and----"
"You told us that!" interrupted Russ.
"Well, then I can make up another," Laddie went on. He was always ready to
do that. "This one is going to be about a barrel. When does a barrel feel
hungry?"
"Pooh! There can't be any answer to that!" declared Russ. "A barrel can't
ever be hungry."
"Yes it can, too!" cried Laddie. "When a barrel takes a roll, isn't it
hungry? A roll is what you eat," he explained, "I didn't think that
riddle up," he added, for Laddie was quite honest. "Jerry Simms told me.
When is a barrel hungry? When it takes a roll before breakfast--that's the
whole answer."
"That's a very good riddle," said Mrs. Bunker with a smile. "But I haven't
yet heard what happened."
"Didn't you hear the noise?" asked Rose with a laugh. "It made a terrible
bang."
"Oh, yes, I heard _that_," answered Mrs. Bunker. "But what caused it?" she
asked anxiously.
Five little Bunkers looked at Russ, as the one best fitted to tell about
the upset.
"We had a make-believe steamboat," explained the oldest boy. "Laddie was
inside the flour barrel you let me take. He was the fireman. I sat outside
the barrel to steer. But Laddie jiggled and wiggled and joggled inside the
barrel and----"
"I had to, Mother, 'cause I was making believe the steamer was on the
rough ocean where the water is ten miles deep," interrupt
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.