after paddling about a little longer in the brook, went back to the house
with her mother and Norah.

"I guess I'll make me a boat, too," decided Russ. "I can fix the box for
my things to-morrow."

He went to the barn with Laddie, and soon the two boys were building
"boats" out of soap boxes, stuffing the cracks and holes with putty which
Jerry gave them.

Then they went down to the brook and floated the boxes. They did not sink
so quickly as had the one with Vi in it, and Russ and Laddie had lots of
fun until supper time.

"I'm so tired I don't know what to do!" said Mrs. Bunker after supper.
"I've packed two trunks, and I've helped rescue Mun Bun from a balloon and
Vi from a sinking boat that wasn't a riddle after all." And the whole
family, including the six little Bunkers, laughed as they thought of the
queer things that had happened that day.

"I'll tell you what we can do," said Daddy Bunker. "It's early, and there
is a nice moving picture show in town. We'll all go down and see it. That
will rest you, Mother."

"Oh, yes! Let's go!" cried Rose.

And so they did.

The show was very nice, and there were some funny pictures. But Mun and
Margy fell asleep before the show was over, and might have had to be