CHAPTER VI
THE COAL STRIKE
Mother, of course, took Mun Bun and Margy back to Pineville by train. It was much too long a journey for them in an automobile. Mr. Bunker, with the four bigger little Bunkers (doesn't that sound funny?) drove in a motor-car and spent one night's sleep on the way at a very pleasant country inn.
They did not have quite so much excitement here as they had at the farmhouse on their way down to the shore. But Rose and Vi had a room all to themselves, and felt themselves quite grown-up travelers. Russ and Laddie were in a second bed in Mr. Bunker's room, and in the night Laddie must have had a very exciting dream because he began to kick about and thrash with his arms and woke up Russ very suddenly.
"Get off me!" cried Russ. "Stop!"
Then he became wide awake, sat up, and saw that it was not a dog jumping all over him, as he had supposed, but his brother.
"Why, Laddie!" he exclaimed, shaking the younger boy. "If you don't stop I'll have to get out and sleep on the floor."
"Oh!" gasped Laddie. "Am I sleeping?"
"Well, you're not now, I guess. But you were sleeping—and kicking, too."