t to answer the telephone, which kept on ringing as though in a hurry. Vi had asked

?" she went on. "What's that? Did we lose anything? No, not that I know of. One of my little guests found something, but I haven't heard of anythin

hildren. They were all there, from Russ the oldest to Mun Bu

he said. "Oh, you'll bring it ove

out the pocketbook?"

next-door neighbor. He says he has something belonging to one of you children, and he is going to

thing of theirs that was missing. In a few minutes the door bell rang, and wh

is over and left it on my d

. I left her to sleep on the porch in the sun so she would get nice and tanned, as I do wh

ust have been holding her upside down," and so he had. That was what made Sue look s

er to your house, instead of

oy leaves it at the front gate instead of walking up to the porch with it, and perhaps your d

Mother Bunker, when he entered, and he stayed some little time, talking with th

she had got over her first bit of shyn

North. Then he was told about the sixty-five do

o. "And if you hear of any poor woman who has lost this sum of m

ite an experience almost as soon as you come to Boston. Wh

," said Aunt Jo. "I want them to have a good time, and remember

and an old velocipede, as well as a coaster wagon. They used to belong to my youngsters, but they ha

others, for I haven't any things that children like, and we can't go on sight-seeing trips or excurs

es and carriages used to be kept in before there were automobiles. Mr. North also had a garage for his cars, but the old barn stood far back in his ya

jolly good times

de, after Alexis carried her

ve rides, to

nswered Russ. "I'll

addy Bunker went downtown to put an advertisement in the paper about the pocketbo

ave them while we go out?"

er, and your housemaid, Anne, are around to sort of look af

und Aunt Jo's house, as well as around Mr. North's, and there Russ and his brothers and sisters rode in the express wagon, on the velocipede an

to look and see that the six little Bunkers were coming to no harm, and when they

turns riding on the velocipede and coaster. Just at this time Mar

ddie, always ready to have

lexis, and hitch him to the

"But what'll we make a harness of? Aunt Jo h

s. "It doesn't need to be very stron

of string from Parker, not tell

n," said the good-natured cook, as she handed out the p

s' cradles," answered Russ. "You

d manage. The dog loved children, and asked nothing better than to be with them. So he stood very still, just hanging his tongue out of his mout

m with," said Laddie. "Else we can't

two strings around the neck of Alexis, one for

orse," said Russ, "'cause Alexis holds his mouth open so

. "Anyhow, we don't want a

so," sa

trings tied around Alexis and mad

e around the walk where Rose and Vi are playing with their dolls," for the two girls we

ssed to the little wagon, turned his head to look

ed Russ, as he

the dog, meaning,

tarted to

ress wagon made quite a heavy load, and when I say that the string harness was not very str

g harness, and it br

lled Russ. "Whoa

ff with the bits of the string harness clinging to him, leaving the expres

d give us a ride

ake a stronger harness,"

, too," agr

fence he saw another dog which he knew, and he ran up to

't get a ride,

e didn't. But I know

asked

ack part of the yard, where William had been spading for a late flower bed.

ountain, Laddie!

ntain!

ll show you!

to make a fountain. And I supp