"I promise you," said Cowboy Jack quite seriously, "that the baby will not be scalped--or any of the white folks at all. Those Indians are not so savage as they seem. To-night, after the day's work is over, I'll take you over to the redskins' camp and you can get acquainted with them."
Russ was rather startled by this suggestion. He wanted to be grateful for anything that Cowboy Jack said he would do; but--but----
"Will Daddy Bunker go too?" asked Russ, suddenly.
"Sure. We'll take your daddy along with us," agreed Cowboy Jack.
"Then I'll go," said Russ Bunker, with a sigh.
He would go anywhere daddy went, although the matter of the wild Indians did seem to be a profound mystery.
After lunch that day Mun Bun managed to have the most astonishing adventure of his life! And nobody could ever have imagined that the littlest Bunker could get into trouble just by falling asleep.
He had walked so far and seen so many strange sights that morning that after eating Mun Bun was just as sleepy as he could be. But he was getting old enough now to think that he should be ashamed of taking a nap in the afternoon.
"Only babies take naps, don't they, Muvver?" he said to Mother Bunker. "And I aren't a baby any more."
"You say you are not," agreed his mother quietly. "But of course you must prove it if we are all to believe that you are quite grown up."
"I'm growed too big to take naps, anyway," declared Mun Bun, quite convinced.
"What are you going to do if you grow sleepy?" asked his mother, before he started out after the other children.
"I'll pinch myself awake," declared Mun Bun. "Oh, I'll show I'm not a baby any longer."
He was some way behind the other children; but as he started in their wake Mother Bunker did not worry about him. She was confident that Russ and Rose would look out for the little boy, even if he was finally overcome with sleep.
But as it happened, the other little Bunkers had run off to see a lot of mule colts in a special paddock some distance from the big ranch house. Mun Bun saw them in the distance and he sturdily started out to follow them. He was no cry-baby ordinarily, and the fact that the others were a long way ahead did not at first disturb Mun Bun's cheerfulness.