ve, while a dear old lady, with
pretty white hair, was kissing Mother Bunker.
"Oh, I'm glad to see you! Glad to see you--every one!" cried Grandma Bell.
"I'm very glad you came. Let me see if you're all here. Daddy, mother, and
six little Bunkers, that's right. Now come right in and get something to
eat! I'm so glad to see you!"
And as the six little Bunkers started to go into the house, suddenly a
strange voice that seemed to come from the woods cried:
"Let me out! Let me out! Take me! Don't leave me behind!"
Every one looked at every one else. Were any of the little Bunkers
missing?
CHAPTER XII
RUSS COULDN'T STOP
"Mercy me!" cried Grandma Bell as she heard the strange voice. "What is
that?"
As if in answer the call came again:
"Take me out! Don't leave me here! I want to go! Take me! Oh, my eye, give
me some pie!"
"It's in the automobile!" said Daddy Bunker.
"But who can it be?" asked his wife.
"You must have forgotten and left one of the children under a robe, though
goodness knows it's hot enough without any covering to-day," said Grandma
Bell. "Are all the children here?"
Once more she counted them, naming each one in turn: Russ, Rose, Vi,
Laddie, Margy and Mun Bun--six little Bunkers.
"All here--every one," said Grandma Bell. "Unless you bought a little
baby on the way up."
"Oh, I almost had one!" exclaimed Rose. "I laid my doll down in a seat,
and when I picked her up she was alive, but it was a lady's baby and----"
Once more the voice called from the auto:
"Take me out! Don't leave me here! Oh my eye, give me some pie!"
"There is a child in there!" said Grandma Bell "Who is it?" she asked of
Mr. Mead, who had been taking some of the Bunkers' baggage into the house,
and who came out just then.
"Who is what?" asked the man who had so kindly given the children a ride
over from the station.
"What child is hidden in that auto?" asked Grandma Bell. "It isn't one of
the six little Bunkers, for they're all here. But there is some
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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.