new riddle!" shouted Laddie. "Why don't the
tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em? Why don't they?"
"I don't know--I give up," said Daddy Bunker. "What's the answer?"
"Oh, I haven't thought of a good answer yet," said Laddie with a laugh. "I
just thought of the riddle!"
And he sat by the window, murmuring over and over to himself:
"Why don't the tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em?"
On and on rumbled the train. They were getting near the end of the trip,
and the children were counting the time before they would get to the
station where they could start to drive to Lake Sagatook and Grandma
Bell's house, when the conductor came through the coach and told Mr.
Bunker that if he changed cars, and took another train at a junction
station, he could save all of an hour.
"We'll do that," decided the children's father. "We'll change at
Clearwell, and get on a train there that will take us to Sagatook
earlier." The name of the station where they were to start to drive to
grandma's was Sagatook. The lake was five miles back in the woods.
They were soon near the junction, where two railroad lines came together,
and there the Bunkers were to change. They gathered up their belongings
and stood ready to get off the car in which they had been nearly a whole
day.
Clearwell was quite a large place, and the station, where the two
different railroad trains came in, was a big one. There was quite a crowd
getting off the train on which the Bunkers had ridden, and more of a
crowd on the platform.
"Follow me!" called Daddy Bunker to his wife and children. "And don't lose
any of your bundles."
He was carrying Mun Bun, while Mrs. Bunker had Margy in her arms. Russ,
Rose, Laddie and Vi came along behind.
Laddie stopped for a moment to look at some pictures on the magazine
covers at the news stand, and then, as he gave a quick glance, and saw the
others crossing the platform, and leaving him, he ran on to catch up to
them.
He saw a man's hand dangling among others
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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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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.