"It's my turn to do it, but she won't let me," complained Mun Bun. "She's splashed him a lot, and now I want to."
"You mustn't either of you splash Alexis any more like this!" exclaimed Mr. Bunker, wanting to laugh at the funny sight, but really not daring to, lest the children try it again some time.
"Stop it at once," he said. "Turn that water off, Mun Bun!"
"I'm not pulling it—it's Margy!" said the little boy.
"Both of you stop!" commanded their father. "Come here, Alexis!" he called, and the big dog jumped out of the bathtub. Luckily the floor of the room was of white tile, so the water that dripped on it from the dog did no harm. But when he gave himself a shake, as dogs always do when they come out of water, the drops splashed on the two children and also on Mr. Bunker.
"Oh! Oh!" cried Mun Bun. "I'm—I'm all wet!"
"So'm I!" added Margy. She had let go of the shower-bath chain, and the water no longer ran out.
"Alexis got me wet, too," said Daddy Bunker. "But you children should not have done this. It was very wrong."
"But Alexis was very hot," said Margy. "His tongue was stickin' out of his mouth just like Grandma's dog Zip's used to, and so we wanted to cool him off; didn't we, Mun Bun?"
"Yes, we did," answered the little boy. "So I told him to get into the bathtub, and we pulled the chain and the water splashed out on him."