ker, as he kept on lifting
his pole up. "But it doesn't act like a fish. It doesn't swim around and
try to get off."
Something long and black was lifted out of the water. At first the two
little boys thought it was a very big fish, but when Mr. Bunker saw it he
laughed and cried:
"Well, look at my luck! It's only an old rubber boot!"
And so it was. His hook had caught on a rubber boot at the bottom of the
lake and he had pulled that up, thinking it was a fish.
"Never mind, Daddy," said Russ kindly. "You can have half of my fish."
"And half of mine, too," added Laddie.
"Thank you," said their father. "That is very nice of you. But I must try
to catch one myself."
And he did, a little later, though it was not as big as the one Russ has
caught.
But after that Mr. Bunker caught a very large one, and Russ and Laddie
each got one more, so they had enough for a good meal, as well as some to
give to Muffin.
Then Daddy Bunker and the boys rowed home, and were told all about the
muskrat that Mun Bun had seen come out of the lake to eat the fresh-water
clams.
"How would you all like to go after wild strawberries to-day?" asked
Grandma Bell of the six little Bunkers one morning, about two days after
the fishing trip.
"Oh, we'd just love it!" said Rose.
"Well, get ready then, and we'll go over to the hill across the sheep
meadow, and see if we can find any. There used to be many strawberries
growing there, and I think we can find some to-day. Come on, children!"
Mrs. Bunker got ready, too, but Daddy Bunker did not go, as he had some
letters to write. Margy wore a little red coat her mother had made for
her, and she looked very pretty in it.
Down by the brook, and along the shore of the lake they went, until they
came to a meadow, around which was a fence.
"What's the fence for?" asked Violet.
"To keep the sheep from getting out," said Grandma Bell. "There are sheep
in this meadow belonging to Mr. Hixon, the man who owns the funny parrot."
They climbed in be
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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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