At last everything was ready. The trunks and the big bundle were set out
on the front porch for the expressman, and when he came the six little
Bunkers, and their father and mother, watched the things being put on the
auto truck.

"And now we'll start ourselves," said Mr. Bunker, when the expressman had
started toward the depot. "Jerry will take us all down in the auto."

With final good-byes to Norah and some of the neighbors who gathered to
see the party off, Mrs. Bunker started for the car, at the steering wheel
of which sat Jerry Simms.

"Are we all here?" asked Daddy Bunker. "Wait until I count noses. Let me
see: Russ, Rose, Vi, Laddie, Mun Bun and----"

Just then Mrs. Bunker uttered a cry.

"Why, where is Margy?"

And where was Margy? She was not with the other little Bunkers!




CHAPTER IX

ROSE'S DOLL