in the crowd, and in another
instant, Laddie had grasped it. He thought it was his father's, and he
called, above the noise of the crowd:
"Why don't the tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em?"
"Eh? What's that? Tickets? A conductor? I'm not the conductor!" a voice
exclaimed. "Who's this grabbing my hand?"
Laddie looked up.
He had hold of the wrong daddy!
CHAPTER XI
THE FUNNY VOICE
The man whose hand Laddie had taken hold of in the crowd, thinking it was
his father's, looked down at the little fellow and smiled. And when Laddie
saw the smile he felt better.
"What was it you were asking me, little boy?" the man kindly inquired.
"I was--I was asking you a riddle," said Laddie.
"What about?" the man wanted to know.
"It was about a conductor punching tickets on the train," said Laddie.
"But I don't know the answer."
"First, what is the question?" the man inquired, still smiling.
"It's why don't the tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em?"
Laddie repeated.
"Hum," mused the man. "I don't believe that I know the answer to that
riddle. Did you think I did?"
"Well, I--I didn't know," said Laddie slowly. "Nobody seems to know the
answer to that riddle. But, you see, I thought you were my father when I
took hold of your hand."
"Oh, you did!" and the man laughed and gave Laddie's hand a gentle
squeeze. "Well, I thought you were my little boy, for a moment. But then I
happened to think that he is away down in New York City, so, you see, it
couldn't be my little boy. But are you lost?"
"Oh, no," answered Laddie. "That is, I'm not very much lost. You see,
we're going to my Grandma Bell's, and we changed cars here."
"How many of you are going to Grandma Bell's?" asked the man as he stopped
in the crowed and began looking around.
"My father and my mother and six of us little Bunkers," answered Laddie.
"Six little Bunkers!" repeated the man. "Is that another riddle?"
"Oh, no. But you see there _are_ six of us. There's Russ and Ros
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.