So off to the barn went Mrs. Bunker, with Margy and Mun Bun, Laddie and Violet, while Russ, Rose, and Ralph remained in the orchard to help pick the apples.
Most of the hens laid in nests in the big hen-house built for them, but there were some of the chickens that “stole their nests,” as Farmer Joel said, going in the barn, or even under it.
The children had been around long enough now to know where most of these hidden nests were, and they scattered and began looking for the eggs.
Mrs. Bunker had the basket with the most of the eggs in, for she did not dare trust them to the children. She was coming out of the hen-house with Laddie and Violet when Mun Bun, who had gone into the barn with Margy, came running up to his mother.
“Oh! Oh!” cried the little fellow. “You ought to see her!”
“See whom?” asked Mrs. Bunker.
“Margy!” gasped Mun Bun. “She’s all yellow and white!”
CHAPTER XXI
A MAD BULL
Violet almost dropped her basket of eggs, she was so excited.
“Oh! Oh!” she cried. “Maybe Margy’s getting the chicken pox or something like that. All yellow and white! Oh, dear!”