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re's lots of water. You push that button again, Margy, and let some more water run." "But you mustn't spill it on you. You know mother said you shouldn't," replied the little girl. Margy was, however, quite as pleased with the wax-paper cups as Mun Bun was. When one cup was full, Mun Bun took it and set it carefully down on the floor. Then he reached for another. He actually forgot he was thirsty he was so much interested in filling and stationing the cups in a long line on the floor. The porter had left his station in the anteroom and did not see what the two children were doing. And the rest of the Bunker family were so much engaged at the other end of the car they quite forgot Margy and Mun Bun for the time being. "Get another! Get another, Margy!" Mun Bun kept saying. Margy reached down the cups until there was not another one in the rack. And by that time the ice-water dripped very slowly from the faucet. The tank was just about empty. "I guess we have got it all, Mun Bun," said the little girl. "They are all full." "And I didn't spill a drop on me," declared the little boy virtuously. "So mother will say I am a good boy, won't she?" Just what Mrs. Bunker might have said had she come upon the little mischief-makers we cannot know. For it was the colored porter who was first to discover what the smallest Bunkers were doing. He came back from the other end of the car, smiling broadly at Mun Bun and Margy when he saw them. The two stood to one side and looked rather seriously at the tall colored man. Somehow they felt that perhaps their play would not entirely meet his approval. Suddenly Mun Bun saw where the pleasant colored man was about to step. He cried out: "Oh, don't! Look out! All our puddin' dishes!" "What's that, little boy?" demanded the porter. "Look out! You'll splash----" Margy tried to warn him too. But she was too late. The porter stepped right into the first of the filled waxed-paper cups, and then went plowing on, almost falling over them! "My haid and body!" gasped the porter, stumbling on until he had overturned and stepped on the complete array of waxed-paper cups. "What you chilluns been a-doin' here, eh?" "Now you spilled 'em," cried Mun Bun. "Look, Margy, how he's spilled 'em." There could be no doubt of that fact. The passage was a-flood with ice-water! The porter was sputtering, and the two children were inclined to be somewhat tearful when Daddy Bunker ca
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