ful cook for the six little Bunkers, saw their
mother hurrying out of the house with Rose.
"What's the matter, Mrs. Bunker?" asked Norah. "Is there a fire, and are
ye goin' for a policeman?"
Firemen and policemen, aside from Jerry Simms, were Norah's two chief
heroes.
"No, there isn't a fire, Norah" answered Mrs. Bunker. "But Rose just told
me that Mun Bun is caught up in a tree with a balloon, and I've got to go
and get him down. Maybe you'd better come, too."
"Better come! I should say I _had_!" cried Norah, quickly taking off her
apron. "The poor little lad caught up in a balloon! The saints preserve
us! 'Tis probably one of them circus balloons, or maybe a German airship
came along and caught him up! The poor darlin'!"
"Oh, no!" exclaimed Rose, as she trotted along with her mother and Norah,
"Mun isn't in a balloon. His balloon is caught in a big tree and the
little darlin' won't come away and----"
"It couldn't be much worse!" gasped Norah. "We'll have to get a fireman
with a long ladder, 'tis probable, to get him down."
"I don't see how it could have happened," said Mrs. Bunker. "He was in the
yard playing, a little while ago. The next time I looked he was gone.
Where did the balloon come from, Rose?"
"Mun Bun bought the balloon!" said the little girl.
"He _bought_ it?" cried Norah and Mrs. Bunker.
"Yes, it's a five-cent one. He had five cents that Jerry Simms gave him,
Mun had, and he bought the balloon, and it had a long string to it, and it
got caught up in a tree--the balloon did--and Mun Bun's got hold of the
string and he won't come away, 'cause if he does he'll maybe break the
string and the balloon and----"
Rose had to stop, she was so out of breath, but she had told all there was
need to tell.
Mrs. Bunker and Norah, who had reached the street and could look down and
see Mun Bun standing under a tree not far away, came to a sudden stop.
"And then the little darlin' isn't caught up by a German airship?" asked
the cook.
"No. It's just a ball
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.