by express, so I brought her back as fast as I could."
"I'm glad you did," said Mrs. Bunker. "We couldn't imagine where she had
gone."
"What did you do, Margy?" asked Russ.
"I--I just crawled inside the bundle," replied the little girl "I
'membered I put my rubber ball inside, and I wanted it, so I wiggled
inside. And when I got there I was so tired I went to sleep, I guess."
And that is just what happened. Margy had wiggled herself all the way
inside the bundle, which was not wrapped very tightly. It was big enough
to hold her, and neither her feet nor her head stuck out of either end.
The bundle had been put on the porch with the trunks, and Margy found it
easy to crawl into it after her ball, which, with other toys of the
children, had been put in the bundle at the last minute.
"Well, now we'll start off again," said Daddy Bunker. "Don't any of you
children crawl into any bundles, or shut yourselves up in trunks! We all
want to go to Grandma Bell's together."
The expressman once more carried the bundle to his auto truck, and found
it a little lighter this time, for Margy was not snuggled up inside it.
Then, after "counting noses," Mr. Bunker, his wife and the children got
into the auto with Jerry Simms, and started for the depot.
"Now I guess we're all right," said the children's father, as he saw that
the baggage was safely put on the train, including the bundle into which
Margy had "wiggled" herself. "All aboard!"
"That's what you called when we were playing steamboat," said Rose to
Russ, as they got into the passenger car.
"Yes. We had lots of fun that day, didn't we?" he asked.
"Yes. And we'll have a lot of fun at Grandma Bell's," said his sister.
As the six little Bunkers were to stay on the train all the rest of that
day and night, as well as part of the next day, they did not go in an
ordinary day coach. They went in one that had big, deep seats, which, when
the time came, could be turned into beds, with sheets, pillow cases, and
curtains hanging in front. But, until the beds were needed, the seats
were used by the passengers, some riding backward and some forward.
As there were eight Bunkers, including the father and mother, they needed
several beds for sleeping at night. Daddy would take Mun Bun in with him,
and Margy would be tucked in with her mother.
Russ and Laddie said they wanted to sleep together, while Rose and Violet
were to share a berth between them, and thus they would
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