. "And when they rolled down in the
little holes I wanted to get 'em back. So I put my head down to look and
I couldn't get up again."

"But if the holes were only large enough to let marbles roll through, I
don't see how Mun Bun could get his head down them," said Mrs. Bunker.

"Oh, but he lifted off the iron grating of the pipe, and put his head
right down in the pipe itself," said Aunt Jo. "The iron grating is made
to lift up, so the pipe can be cleaned. I suppose Mun Bun found it
loose, lifted it up, stuck his head down, and then the edge of the
strainer-holder held his ears, so he couldn't get loose. I pushed his
ears in close to the sides of his head, and then he was all right."

And that is just the way it happened. Mun Bun, when he saw the marbles
roll down into the drain-pipe, wanted to get them back. He could easily
lift up the grating, but when his head was in he could not so easily get
it out again. So he yelled and cried, and Margy heard him and went for
help, which was a good thing.

"Well, you're all right now, but don't ever do anything like that
again," said Aunt Jo.

"I won't," promised Mun Bun, as his mother carried him to the house to
be washed and combed. "But I wanted the marbles, and they're down the
pipe yet. I couldn't get 'em."

"Never mind," said Mabel. "My brother has lots more. He won't care about
losing a few."

And he did not, so Mun Bun had all his trouble for nothing, not even
getting back the marbles. But it taught him never to put his head in a
hole unless he was sure he could get it out.

When Russ and Laddie came home from the moving picture show, they heard
all about what had happened to their little brother.

"Let's go out and look at the hole," suggested Laddie.

"All right," agreed Russ. "I knew it was there, 'cause the last time it
rained I saw water running into it. But I didn't know the iron grating
lifted up."

For several days after that the six little Bunkers had lots of fun at
Aunt Jo's. They played all sorts of games, and had rides on the
roller-skate wagon Russ had made, as well as in the express wagon,
pulled by Alexis, the big dog.

They went out to Bunker Hill monument, where they were told something
about what had happened when the men of the colonies fought that these
United States might become a free nation.

"Daddy," asked Vi very seriously, "didn't they name this monument after
you?"

"How could they?" broke in Russ. "This monument was put up ye