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had been sitting on that. This box had fallen on Laddie's leg, which was
twisted up inside it.
"But what happened?" asked Mother Bunker again. "You really mustn't make
so much noise when you play."
"We couldn't help it, Mother," said Rose, who, being the oldest girl, was
quite a help around the house, though she was only seven years old. "The
steamboat turned over and broke all up, Mother," she went on.
"The steamboat?" repeated Mrs. Bunker.
"I made one out of the flour-barrel you let me take," explained Russ. "But
Laddie rocked inside it, and it all fell apart, and then the chairs fell
on top of us and Mun and Vi and Margy all fell out and--"
"Oh, my dears! Some of you may be hurt!" cried Mrs. Bunker, as she heard a
little sob from Mun Bun. "I must come up and see what it is all about,"
and, dropping her sewing, up the stairs she hurried.
There were six little Bunkers, as you have probably counted by this time.
Six little Bunkers, and they were such a jolly bunch of tots and had such
good times, even if a make-believe steamboat did upset now and then, that
I'm sure you'll like to hear about them.
To begin with, there was Russ Bunker. Russell was his real name, but he
was always called Russ. He was eight years old, and was very fond of
"making things."
Next came Rose Bunker. She was only seven years old, but she could do some
sweeping and lots of dusting, and was quite a little mother's helper. Rose
had light hair and eyes, while Russ was just the opposite, being dark.
Violet, or Vi, aged six, was a curly-haired girl, with gray eyes, and, as
I have told you, she could ask more questions than her father and mother
could answer.
Then there was Laddie, or Fillmore, a twin of Vi's, and, naturally, of the
same age. Just how he happened to be so fond of asking riddles no one
knew. Perhaps he caught it from Jerry Simms, who had served ten years in
the army, and who never tired of telling about it. Jerry was a
not-to-be-mistaken Yankee who worked around the Bunker hou
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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.