"
"Oh, I don't think, Captain Briggs, he will do it again," said Mother
Bunker.
"I dess wanted to sleep," murmured Mun Bun, holding up his spoon.
"Next time you want your watch below," said Captain Briggs, shaking his
head, "you report to me first. Do you hear?"
"Yes, Ma'am," said Mun Bun, quite sure that he had said the right thing
although they all laughed at him.
Mother Bunker kept the little fellow close to her thereafter; but Vi and
Laddie followed the two older children out on deck. There was a
comfortably filled passenger list on the _Kammerboy_; but the wind was
rather heavy that afternoon and many of them remained in the cabins. But
the four children had a great game of hide and seek all over the
forward deck.
Finally Daddy Bunker appeared from aft to make sure that none of the
quartette was lost. He took Laddie and Vi below with him after a time
and the two older children were left alone. They found seats in the lee
of what the ship's men called "the house" and sat down to rest and talk.
But every now and then one of them jumped up to look astern to see if
the land had disappeared, as Daddy Bunker said it would.
"It's a long time going," said Rose.
"Well, there is a lot of it to go. Don't you remember," said Russ, "how
big the North American continent is in the geography?"
"Oh! Is that it?" cried Rose.
"Yes.
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