.
"I think we'd better have our Fourth of July at home here, before we go,"
he said. "That will be next week, and we can go to Maine soon afterward.
Grandma Bell doesn't like fire-crackers, anyhow. We'll shoot them off
before we go."
"Goody!" cried Laddie again. Anything suited him as long as he could have
fun. "We'll shoot sky-rockets, too. What makes 'em be called sky-rockets?"
he asked, "Do they go up to the sky?"
"You go and ask Jerry Simms about that," suggested Mr. Bunker. "Jerry can
tell you how they shot signaling rockets in the army. Trot along!"
Laddie was glad to do this. He liked to hear Jerry talk.
"Maybe he'll tell me a riddle about sky-rockets," said the little fellow.
Russ sat down on the porch and began whittling some bits of wood with his
knife.
"What are you making now, Russ?" asked his father, while Mrs. Bunker went
in to see that Rose was setting the table right, and that Norah had
started to get the meal.
"I'm making a wooden cannon to shoot fire-crackers," the boy answered.
"You can put a fire-cracker in it and light it, and then it can't hurt
anybody."
"That's a good idea," said Mr. Bunker, "You can't be too careful about
Fourth of July things. I'll be at home with you and the other children on
that day, to see that you don't get hurt."
"Are you sure Grandma Bell wouldn't like to have us bring some shooting
things down to her?" asked Russ.
"Oh, yes, I am very sure," answered his father with a laugh. "Grandma Bell
doesn't like much noise. We'll have our Fourth before we go."
"That'll be fun!" said Russ, and he went on whittling at his cannon. His
father did not really believe the little boy could make one, but Russ was
always doing something; either whistling or making some toy.
At supper they talked about the fun they would have at Grandma Bell's. It
was quite a long trip in the train, and they would be all night in the
cars.
"And that'll be fun!" cried Russ. "We can all of us sleep when the train
is going along."
"Can we, Da
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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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