"All right, I will, and thank you," the boy replied.
"And now you men folks had better sit up and get your dinner," went on Mrs. Brown. "Getting autos out of ditches is hungry work."
"Indeed it is!" agreed Captain Ben.
He and Daddy Bunker had almost finished their pie, which was the last course of the meal, when a man came rushing up the front path.
"Say, whoever owns that auto that's stuck in the ditch had better hurry back there!" the man called. "Something's the matter! I can hear a lot of yelling around the bend in the road!"
Daddy Bunker and Captain Ben hurried from the table.
"Goodness! what's going to happen now?" said Rose to Russ.
CHAPTER XIII
THE MISSING BOY
The four little Bunkers had finished their dinner before their father and Captain Ben had started to eat. Tad Munson, the "apple boy," had also completed his meal, and as the man came running in from the road, calling out that something was wrong down where the automobile had been left, Russ, Rose, Vi and Laddie, together with Tad, started after Mr. Bunker and Captain Ben.