e middle, standing in a soap box,
was Violet. The little girl was crying and holding out her hands to
Laddie, who seemed quite worried and excited.
"She's sunk! She's sunk!" he said over and over again.
"Be quiet, silly boy!" ordered his mother, who saw that Vi was in no
danger. "We'll get her out. Why didn't you wade out to her yourself, and
bring her to shore?"
"'Cause I thought maybe something was out there," said Laddie.
"Something out there? What do you mean?" asked his mother.
"I mean something that made the boat sink--something that pulled it down
in the water with Vi. A shark maybe, or a whale!"
"Nonsense!" laughed Mrs. Bunker. "There are only little baby fishes in the
brook."
"But something made the boat sink!" insisted Laddie.
"We'll see about that when we get Vi to shore," said Mrs. Bunker. "Come
on," she called to the little girl. "Wade to shore, Vi. You have your
shoes and stockings off, haven't you?"
"Oh, yes, Mother."
"Then wade to shore. You're all right."
So Vi stepped out of the soap box, which Laddie had called the boat, and
started for shore. The box floated down the brook, and Russ ran out on a
little point of land to catch hold of it when it should float to him.
"Now you're all right," said Mrs. Bunker to her little girl, as Vi came
ashore. "But what happened?"
"We were playing sailor," explained Laddie, "and I made the boat out of a
box. Then Vi went for a ride, but the boat sank. What made it sink, Vi?"
"'Cause it's full of cracks and holes--that's why!" answered Russ, who had
caught the soap box as it floated down to him. "Look! It let in a lot of
water, and that's what made it sink," he went on, as he held out the play
boat.
The bottom and sides of the box were filled with many holes, from which
the water now dripped. Laddie told how he had set it afloat in the brook,
with Vi as a passenger. He had pushed her out from shore, hoping to give
her a nice ride, but in the middle of the stream the boat went down, and
Vi was fright
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.