“Oh! Oh! Oh!” came the murmurs of delight. Mrs. Bunker, with laughter shining in her eyes, looked at the happy faces around her.
“They sure will have fun out there!” said Adam.
“Do you really mean it?” asked Russ. “Are we going?”
“Surely,” said his father. “Farmer Joel’s sister, who has been keeping house for him, is going away on a visit. When he told me this he said he didn’t know what he was going to do, as he didn’t want a strange woman coming in to look after the place. Then I said I would bring my six little Bunkers up there and they would keep house for him.”
“Did you really say that, Daddy?” Rose asked eagerly.
“I surely did.”
“Well, I can keep house a little bit,” Rose went on. “But to cook for a farmer——”
Rose began to look worried, so her mother said:
“You won’t have to do it all alone. I am going with you, and so is Norah, and we’ll see that Farmer Joel doesn’t get hungry.”
“Oh, if mother is coming it will be all right,” said Violet.