Chapter 1. A Queer Hunt
_ CHAPTER I. A QUEER HUNT
"Let me count noses now, to see if you‘re all here," said Mother Bunker with a laugh, as her flock of children gathered around her.
"Don‘t you want some help?" asked Grandma Bell. "Can you count so many boys and girls all alone, Amy?"
"Oh, I think so," answered Mother Bunker. "You see I am used to it. I count them every time we come to the woods, and each time I start for home, to be sure none has been left behind. Now then, children! Attention! as the soldier captain says."
Six little Bunkers, who were getting ready to run off into the woods to frolic and have a good time at a good-bye picnic, laughed and shouted and finally stood still long enough for their mother to "count noses," as she called it.
"And I‘ll help," said Grandma Bell, at whose country home in Maine, near Lake Sagatook, the six little Bunkers were spending part of their summer vacation.
"Russ and Rose!" called Mother Bunker.
"Here we are!" answered

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