"But you other three
stay right here by me. I thought that traveling on the train with you
children was sometimes trying; but living on shipboard is going to be
worse."
"Yes, Mother," said Rose gravely. "There are so many more places for Mun
Bun to hide in aboard this ship. Come, Russ."
The two older Bunker children did not know where to look for their
little brother. But Russ had an idea. He usually did have pretty bright
ideas, and Rose admitted this fact.
"You know we got up early this morning," Russ said to his sister, "and
we have been awful busy. And here it is noontime. Mun Bun doesn't
usually have a nap until after lunch, but I guess he's gone somewhere
and hidden away and gone to sleep. And when Mun Bun's asleep it is awful
hard to wake him. You know that, Rose Bunker."
"Yes, I know it," admitted Rose. "But where could he have gone?"
Russ thought over that question pretty hard. Daddy Bunker would have
said that the little lost boy's older brother was trying to put himself
in Mun Bun's place and thinking Mun Bun's thoughts.
Now, if Mun Bun had been very sleepy and had crept away to take a nap,
as he often did after lunch when they were at home, without saying
anything to Mother Bunker about it, where would he have gone to take
that nap on this steamboat?
Mun Bun was a bold little boy. He was seldom afraid of anything or
anybody.
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