[Illustration: MAMMY JUNE TREATS THE CHILDREN TO A "TAFFY PULL."
_Six Little Bunkers at Mammy Junes._ _Frontispiece_--(_Page_ 142)]




SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT MAMMY JUNE'S




CHAPTER I

AN ESKIMO IGLOO


"How could William get the croup that way?" Violet asked with much
emphasis.

Of course, Vi was always asking questions--so many questions, indeed,
that it was often impossible for her elders to answer them all; and
certainly Rose and Russ Bunker, who were putting together a "cut-up"
puzzle on the table, could not be bothered by Vi's insistence.

"I don't see how he could have got the croup that way," repeated the
smaller girl. There were six of the little Bunkers, and Vi and Laddie
were twins. She said to Laddie, who was looking on at the puzzle making:
"Do you know how William did it, Laddie?"