nd looked around at the
others.

"You have begun well," said Daddy Bunker gravely. "Stirring up the whole
ship's company before we are out of sight of land! I must hurry and tell
the captain to call off his sea-dogs. The lost is found."

"What are sea-dogs?" demanded Vi. "Do they have dogs at sea to hunt for
lost children--dogs like Alexis?"

Nobody answered that question, but Rose and Russ, trotting along the
deck beside their father, were more fortunate in getting their questions
answered.

"Are we really going to sail out of sight of land, Daddy?" asked Rose.

"We certainly are," said Mr. Bunker.

"But there is a lot of land," said the girl, pointing. "We can't lose
all that, can we?"

"That is just what we are going to do. You watch. By and by the land
will be only a line on the horizon, and then it will fade out of sight
entirely."

So Russ and Rose remained on deck to watch the land disappear. Rose
expected it to go something like a "fade-out" on the moving picture
screen. The disappearance of the land proved to be a very long matter,
however, and the two children went below for lunch when the first call
came.

The purser had arranged for the Bunker family at a side table where they
could be as retired as though they were at home. There were not many
other children aboard, and the purser liked children anyway. So between
his good offices and that of the colored stewards, the Bunkers were well
provided for.

Even the captain--a big, bold-looking man with a gray mustache and lots
of glittering buttons on his blue coat--stopped at the Bunker table to
ask about Mun Bun.

"So that is the fellow I was going to put about my ship for and go back
to Boston to see if he had been left on the dock!" he said very gruffly,
but smiling with his eyes at Mun Bun, who smiled back. "He looks like
too big a boy to make such a disturbance on a man's ship."

"Oh, I don't think, Captain Briggs, he will do it again," said Mother
Bunker.

"I dess wanted to sleep," murmured Mun Bun, holding up his spoon.

"Next time you want your watch below," said Captain Briggs, shaking his
head, "you report to me first. Do you hear?"

"Yes, Ma'am," said Mun Bun, quite sure that he had said the right thing
although they all laughed at him.

Mother Bunker kept the little fellow close to her thereafter; but Vi and
Laddie followed the two older children out on deck. There was a
comfortably filled passenger list on the _Kammerboy_; but