l night, but Rose and Russ both said
they did once during the hours of darkness.

"And I heard a baby cry," said Rose. "Was it the one I took for my doll?"

"I guess it was, Little Helper," answered her mother, the next morning
when Rose told about it.

After breakfast, eaten at little tables in the dining car, the lady
brought the baby down for Rose and all the other little Bunkers to see.

"Oh, isn't she cute?" cried Rose, "I wish we could keep her!"

"I'm glad you like her," said the baby's mother, "but I want to keep her
for myself."

Once more it was daylight, and as the train rumbled on toward Lake
Sagatook, the Bunkers looked from the windows, or looked again at the
picture books their father had bought for them.

"When shall we be there?" asked Russ, for perhaps the tenth time. He was
getting a bit tired of train travel.

"We'll get in at the station about noon," his father told him, "but we
have to drive about five miles in a wagon or an auto to get to Grandma
Bell's place. That is on the shore of Lake Sagatook."

"And I hope none of you fall in," said Mrs. Bunker.

"We'll get a boat," said Russ.

"And I hope it won't sink," added Vi, remembering her last boat ride.

"Oh, say! I've thought of a new riddle!" shouted Laddie. "Why don't the
tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em? Why don't they?"

"I don't know--I give up," said Daddy Bunker. "What's the answer?"

"Oh, I haven't thought of a good answer yet," said Laddie with a laugh. "I
just thought of the riddle!"

And he sat by the window, murmuring over and over to himself:

"Why don't the tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em?"

On and on rumbled the train. They were getting near the end of the trip,
and the children were counting the time before they would get to the
station where they could start to drive to Lake Sagatook and Grandma
Bell's house, when the conductor came through the coach and told Mr.
Bunker that if he changed cars, and took another train at a junction
station, he could save all of an hour.

"We'll do that," decided the children's father. "We'll change at
Clearwell, and get on a train there that will take us to Sagatook
earlier." The name of the station where they were to start to drive to
grandma's was Sagatook. The lake was five miles back in the woods.

They were soon near the junction, where two railroad lines came together,
and there the Bunkers were to change. They gathered up their belongings
an