Sneezer

The boy they all called Sneezer should have been home now when his mother was crippled with rheumatism and had lost her home and all her little possessions.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

"But do you s'pose he'll ever want to come back to the place where everybody called him 'Sneezer'?"

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

"You ought to've seen Sneezer do it!" cried another of the colored children.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

"Sneezer was a great dancer," admitted the oldest Armatage girl.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

According to Russ's mind, that Daddy Bunker had promised to help find the lost boy seemed conclusive that Sneezer must be found.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

She worried audibly and continually about Sneezer.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

Margy, when the matter was quite settled that Sam was Sneezer, began to take great pride in the fact that it was their bright eyes that had first spied the colored boy walking in the snow and had been the first to invite him into Aunt Jo's house.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

Rose, however, was looking all about them while Russ did the work of setting up the printed signs for Sneezer

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

"But Sneezer loved you too well to stay away always," Alice Armatage said.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

It was easy to see the attempt he and Rose had made to print plainly a notice to Sneezer, Mammy June's absent son, telling him that his mother was at the big house.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope