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2 02 0 E D I T I O N | P R I D E & F E R R E L L
MARKETING
WILLIAM M. PRIDE
Texas A & M University
O.C. FERRELL
Auburn University
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Contents
vi Preface
vi
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5-5 Issues in Marketing Research 146 6-4a Variables for Segmenting Consumer Markets 162
5-5a The Importance of Ethical Marketing Research 146 6-4b Variables for Segmenting Business Markets 168
5-5b International Issues in Marketing Research 147 Entrepreneurship in Marketing: Halo Top Ice Cream Tops Pint
Creative Marketing: Marketing Research Reveals Marketing Sales Charts 168
Opportunities in the Baby Boomer Generation 148 6-5 Step 3: Develop Market Segment Profiles 170
Summary 149 Integrity in Marketing: Flowers for Dreams Blossoms by Giving
Important Terms 150 Back 170
Discussion and Review Questions 151 6-6 Step 4: Evaluate Relevant Market Segments 171
Developing Your Marketing Plan 151 6-6a Sales Estimates 171
Video Case 5.1 Picture Perfect: How Instagram Uses Big Data 151 6-6b Competitive Assessment 171
Case 5.2 No Mystery Here: Why Market Force Is a Leading Market 6-6c Cost Estimates 172
Research Firm 152
6-7 Step 5: Select Specific Target Markets 172
6-8 Developing Sales Forecasts 173
Chapter 6: Target Markets: Segmentation 6-8a Executive Judgment 173
and Evaluation 154 6-8b Surveys 173
Marketing Insights: L’Oréal Targets More Than Just Pretty Faces 155 6-8c Time Series Analysis 174
6-1 What Are Markets? 156 6-8d Regression Analysis 175
6-2 Target Market Selection Process 157 6-8e Market Tests 175
6-3 Step 1: Identify the Appropriate Targeting Strategy 158 6-8f Using Multiple Forecasting Methods 176
Summary 176
6-3a Undifferentiated Targeting Strategy 158
Important Terms 177
6-3b Concentrated Targeting Strategy through Market Discussion and Review Questions 178
Segmentation 158 Developing Your Marketing Plan 178
6-3c Differentiated Targeting Strategy through Market Video Case 6.1 How Nike Uses Targeting in the High-Stakes Race
Segmentation 161 for Sales 178
6-4 Step 2: Determine which Case 6.2 Looking for a BFF? Umpqua Bank Can Help! 180
Segmentation Variables to Use 161 Strategic Case 3 Uber Attempts to Make a Right Turn 181
Chapter 7: Consumer Buying Behavior 184 7-5 Social Influences on the Buying Decision Process 200
7-5a Roles 201
Marketing Insights: Dunkin’ Donuts Brews Up New Strategy to
Reflect Changes in Consumer Lifestyles and Preferences 185 7-5b Family Influences 201
7-1 Consumer Buying Decision Process 186 7-5c Reference Groups 202
7-1a Problem Recognition 187 7-5d Digital Influences 203
7-1b Information Search 187 7-5e Opinion Leaders 203
Creative Marketing: Picture This: Target and Pinterest Team
7-1c Evaluation of Alternatives 188
Up for Visual Search 204
7-1d Purchase 189
7-5f Social Classes 204
7-1e Postpurchase Evaluation 189
7-5g Culture and Subcultures 205
7-2 Types of Consumer Decision Making and Level
7-6 Consumer Misbehavior 208
of Involvement 190 Summary 209
7-2a Types of Consumer Decision Making 190 Important Terms 210
7-2b Consumer Level of Involvement 191 Discussion and Review Questions 210
7-3 Situational Influences on the Buying Decision Developing Your Marketing Plan 211
Process 192 Video Case 7.1 How Ford Drives Future Innovation 211
7-4 Psychological Influences on the Buying Decision Case 7.2 Campbell’s Soup Company Cooks Up
Process 194 New Marketing 212
7-4a Perception 194
Integrity in Marketing: Unilever Grows “Sustainable Living” Brands 195
7-4b Motivation 196 Chapter 8: Business Markets and Buying
7-4c Learning 197 Behavior 214
7-4d Attitudes 198 Marketing Insights: Google Targets AI at Business Customers 215
7-4e Personality and Self-Concept 199 8-1 Business Markets 216
7-4f Lifestyles 200 8-1a Producer Markets 216
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Chapter 11: Product Concepts, Branding, 12-2 Developing New Products 344
12-2a Idea Generation 346
and Packaging 306 12-2b Screening 347
Marketing Insights: Basics, Essentials, and Elements Are All Parts 12-2c Concept Testing 347
of Amazon’s Private Brands 307
12-2d Business Analysis 347
11-1 What Is a Product? 308 Creative Marketing: Consumers Help Crowdsource Beauty
11-2 Classifying Products 309 at Volition 348
11-2a Consumer Products 309 12-2e Product Development 348
11-2b Business Products 312 12-2f Test Marketing 350
11-3 Product Line and Product Mix 314 12-2g Commercialization 351
11-4 Product Life Cycles and Marketing Strategies 315 12-3 Product Differentiation Through Quality, Design,
11-4a Introduction 315 and Support Services 353
11-4b Growth 316 12-3a Product Quality 353
11-4c Maturity 317 12-3b Product Design and Features 354
11-4d Decline 318 12-3c Product Support Services 354
11-5 Product Adoption Process 319 12-4 Product Positioning and Repositioning 355
11-6 Branding 320 12-4a Perceptual Mapping 355
11-6a Value of Branding 320 12-4b Bases for Positioning 356
11-6b Brand Equity 321 12-4c Repositioning 357
11-6c Types of Brands 323 Integrity in Marketing: Inside the Positioning of Starbucks
11-6d Selecting a Brand Name 324 Coffee 357
11-6e Protecting a Brand 324 12-5 Product Deletion 358
Creative Marketing: What Does Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart 12-6 Organizing to Develop and Manage Products 359
Weitzman Have in Common? Tapestry! 325 Summary 360
11-6f Branding Strategies 326 Important Terms 361
11-6g Brand Extensions 326 Discussion and Review Questions 361
11-6h Co-Branding 328 Developing Your Marketing Plan 361
11-6i Brand Licensing 328 Video Case 12.1 Cutting Edge Quality: Cutco “Knives
Integrity in Marketing: John Deere Brand Drives Eco Rigs Toys 328 for Life” 362
11-7 Packaging 329 Case 12.2 Quesalupa! Crunchy and All that Cheese
11-7a Packaging Functions 329 from Taco Bell 363
11-7b Major Packaging Considerations 329
11-7c Packaging and Marketing Strategy 331 Chapter 13: Services Marketing 366
11-8 Labeling 333
Summary 334 Marketing Insights: Spotify Spots Product Opportunities Beyond
Important Terms 335 Streaming Services 367
Discussion and Review Questions 336 13-1 The Growth and Importance of Services 368
Developing Your Marketing Plan 336 13-2 Characteristics of Services 369
Video case 11.1 Impossible Foods Cooks Up Meatless Burgers 13-2a Intangibility 369
in Silicon Valley 337 13-2b Inseparability of Production and Consumption 370
Case 11.2 Hilton Worldwide Expands to New Brands 13-2c Perishability 371
and New Markets 338 13-2d Heterogeneity 371
13-2e Client-Based Relationships 372
13-2f Customer Contact 372
Chapter 12: Developing and Managing Disruptive Marketing: Can’t Get It Together? IKEA’s
Products 340 TaskRabbit Can 373
Marketing Insights: Coca-Cola: A “Total Beverage Company” 341 13-3 Developing and Managing Marketing Mixes for
12-1 Managing Existing Products 342 Services 373
12-1a Line Extensions 342 13-3a Development of Services 373
12-1b Product Modifications 343 13-3b Distribution of Services 375
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Chapter 14: Marketing Channels and Supply Video Case 14.1 The Cocoa Exchange’s Sweet Spot in the
Supply Chain 428
Chain Management 394 Case 14.2 ADM: The Link from Farm to Table 430
Marketing Insights: Championship Gear Is a Supply Chain
Touchdown 395 Chapter 15: Retailing, Direct Marketing,
14-1 Foundations of the Supply Chain 396 and Wholesaling 432
14-2 The Role of Marketing Channels in Supply Marketing Insights: Like Treasure Hunts? TJX Is Looking for
Chains 399 You 433
14-2a The Significance of Marketing Channels 400 15-1 Retailing 434
14-2b Types of Marketing Channels 402 15-2 Online Retailing 435
Entrepreneurship in Marketing: Haney’s Appledale Farm Taps Entrepreneurship in Marketing: Maiden Home Furniture
into Experiential Logistics 405 Focuses on Quality, Customer Education, and Transparency 436
14-2c Selecting Marketing Channels 407 15-3 Brick-and-Mortar Retailers 436
Integrity in Marketing: REI: A Consumer-Owned Retailer 409 15-3a General-Merchandise Retailers 437
14-3 Intensity of Market Coverage 409 15-3b Specialty Retailers 440
14-3a Intensive Distribution 409 15-4 Strategic Issues in Retailing 442
14-3b Selective Distribution 410 15-4a Location of Retail Stores 442
14-3c Exclusive Distribution 410 Creative Marketing: Pop-Up Stores: Now You See Them,
Now You Don’t 443
14-4 Strategic Issues in Marketing Channels 411
15-4b Franchising 445
14-4a Competitive Priorities in Marketing Channels 411
15-4c Retail Technologies 447
14-4b Channel Leadership, Cooperation, and
15-4d Retail Positioning 447
Conflict 412 15-4e Store Image 448
14-4c Channel Integration 415 15-4f Category Management 449
14-5 Logistics in Supply Chain Management 416 15-5 Direct Marketing, Direct Selling, and Vending 449
14-5a Order Processing 418 15-5a Direct Marketing 449
14-5b Inventory Management 418 15-5b Direct Selling 451
14-5c Materials Handling 419 15-5c Vending 452
14-5d Warehousing 420 15-6 Wholesaling 452
14-5e Transportation 421 15-6a Services Provided by Wholesalers 453
14-6 Legal Issues in Channel Management 424 15-6b Types of Wholesalers 454
14-6a Restricted Sales Territories 424 Summary 458
Important Terms 460
14-6b Tying Agreements 425
Discussion and Review Questions 460
14-6c Exclusive Dealing 425 Developing Your Marketing Plan 460
14-6d Refusal to Deal 425 Video Case 15.1 Rebecca Minkoff’s Cutting-Edge Retail
Summary 425 Technology 461
Important Terms 427 Case 15.2 Lowe’s Taps Technology for Retailing Edge 462
Discussion and Review Questions 427 Strategic Case 6 Gelson’s Markets—Where Superior Quality
Developing Your Marketing Plan 428 Meets Convenience 463
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Integrity in Marketing: Eaton Sales Support Soars Like Entrepreneurship in Marketing: Tastefully Simple Takes a Bite Out
an Eagle 533 of Family Meal Planning 547
18-5 Sales Force Management 534 18-7g Free Samples 548
18-5a Establishing Sales Force Objectives 535 18-7h Premiums 548
18-5b Determining Sales Force Size 535 18-7i Consumer Contests 548
18-5c Recruiting and Selecting Salespeople 535 18-7j Consumer Games 548
18-5d Training Sales Personnel 536 18-7k Sweepstakes 549
18-5e Compensating Salespeople 538 18-8 Trade Sales Promotion Methods 549
18-5f Motivating Salespeople 540 18-8a Trade Allowances 549
18-5g Managing Sales Territories 541 18-8b Cooperative Advertising and Dealer Listings 550
18-5h Controlling and Evaluating Sales Force 18-8c Free Merchandise and Gifts 550
Performance 542 18-8d Premium Money 550
18-6 Sales Promotion 542 18-8e Sales Contests 551
18-7 Consumer Sales Promotion Methods 543 Summary 551
18-7a Coupons 543 Important Terms 552
Discussion and Review Questions 552
18-7b Cents-Off Offers 545
Developing Your Marketing Plan 553
18-7c Money Refunds 546 Video Case 18.1 Nederlander Gives Audiences a Reason for a
18-7d Rebates 546 Standing Ovation 553
18-7e Shopper, Loyalty, and Frequent-User Incentives 547 Case 18.2 Salesforce.com Sold on Stakeholder Satisfaction 554
18-7f Point-of-Purchase Materials and Demonstrations 547 Strategic Case 7 Patagonia Climbs into the World of IMC 555
Chapter 19: Pricing Concepts 560 19-6 Pricing for Business Markets 580
19-6a Price Discounting 580
Marketing Insights: Can’t Spend Enough on a Car? 561
19-6b Geographic Pricing 581
19-1 The Importance of Price in Marketing 562
19-6c Transfer Pricing 582
19-2 Price and Nonprice Competition 563 Summary 582
19-2a Price Competition 563 Important Terms 584
19-2b Nonprice Competition 564 Discussion and Review Questions 584
19-3 Demand Curves and Price Elasticity 564 Developing Your Marketing Plan 584
19-3a The Demand Curve 565 Video Case 19.1 Louis Vuitton Bags the Value
19-3b Demand Fluctuations 566 Shopper 585
19-3c Assessing Price Elasticity of Demand 566 Case 19.2 CVS: Continuous Value Strategy 586
19-4 Demand, Cost, and Profit Relationships 567
19-4a Marginal Analysis 567 Chapter 20: Setting Prices 588
19-4b Breakeven Analysis 571 Marketing Insights: Aldi Spotlights Low Grocery Prices 589
19-5 Factors that Affect Pricing Decisions 572 20-1 Development of Pricing Objectives 590
19-5a Organizational and Marketing 20-1a Survival 591
Objectives 572 20-1b Profit 591
19-5b Types of Pricing Objectives 572 20-1c Return on Investment 591
19-5c Costs 573 20-1d Market Share 591
19-5d Marketing-Mix Variables 573 20-1e Cash Flow 592
19-5e Channel Member Expectations 574 20-1f Status Quo 592
19-5f Customers’ Interpretation and Response 574 20-1g Product Quality 592
Entrepreneurship in Marketing: Up, Up, and Away for Smart 20-2 Assessment of the Target Market’s Evaluation
and Strong Luggage 575 of Price 592
Disruptive Marketing: Rent, Return, Repeat, or 20-3 Evaluation of Competitors’ Prices 593
Try and Buy? 577 20-4 Selection of a Basis for Pricing 594
19-5g Competition 577 20-4a Cost-Based Pricing 594
19-5h Legal and Regulatory Issues 578 20-4b Demand-Based Pricing 595
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Creative Marketing: The Ups and Downs of Dynamic Case 20.2 Norwegian Air Shuttle Continues to Climb with
Toll Pricing 596 Low Costs and Low Prices 610
20-4c Competition-Based Pricing 597 Strategic Case 8 To Rent or to Own? That Is the Question 611
20-5 Selection of a Pricing Strategy 597
20-5a Differential Pricing 597
20-5b New-Product Pricing 599 AVAILABLE ONLY ONLINE:
Disruptive Marketing: Flash Sales: You’ve Got to Be Fast! 599 Appendix A: Financial Analysis in Marketing A-1
20-5c Product-Line Pricing 600 Appendix B: Sample Marketing Plan B-1
20-5d Psychological Pricing 603 Appendix C: Careers in Marketing C-1
20-5e Professional Pricing 605
20-5f Promotional Pricing 605
Glossary 614
20-6 Determination of a Specific Price 606
Summary 607 Endnotes 627
Important Terms 608 Feature Notes 670
Discussion and Review Questions 608 Name Index 677
Developing Your Marketing Plan 609 Organization Index 678
Video Case 20.1 Warby Parker Puts Affordable Eyewear in Focus 609 Subject Index 681
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Preface
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xvi Preface
and social networking. We discuss how digital media and social networking tools can cre-
ate effective digital 293 marketing strategies that can enhance marketing efforts. In addition, the
entire book integrates important digital marketing concepts and examples where appropriate.
ution costs and real estate costs associated with large
online competition as well as a trend toward We have paid careful attention to enhancing all key concepts in marketing and have built
offer a seamless experience on mobile, desktop, or this revision to be current and to reflect important changes in marketing. Our book is a market
many retailers aim to offer consistent product assort-
leader because students find it readable and relevant. Our text reflects the real world of market-
re, browse an in-store digital catalog, and then use ing and provides the most comprehensive coverage possible of important marketing topics.
seamless shopping experience a way to differentiate Specific details of this extensive revision are available in the transition guide in the
76
Instructor’s Manual. We have also made efforts to improve all teaching ancillaries and stu-
dent learning tools. PowerPoint presentations continue to be a very popular teaching device,
and a special effort has been made to upgrade the PowerPoint program to enhance classroom
derations
teaching.
omni-channel The Instructor’s Manual continues to be a valuable tool, updated with engaging
Various
marketing channels, including
in-class activities
mobile, desktop, or traditional
and projects. The authors and publisher have worked together to provide
retailaspaces,
CHAPTER comprehensive
providing
4: Socialseamless teaching
Responsibility package
and Ethics in Marketingand ancillaries that are unsurpassed in the marketplace. 105
s. ColourPop is an example of a digital marketing customer experiences
The authors have maintained a hands-on approach to teaching this
4-3a Individual Factors material and revising the text and its ancillaries. This results in an inte-
. The com-
When people need to resolve ethical grated teaching
conflicts in theirpackage andoften
daily lives, they approach
base theirthat is accurate, sound, and suc-
decisions
on their own values and principles of right or wrong. People learn values and principles through
a number of cessful in reaching students. The outcome
socialization by family members, social groups, religion, and formal education. Because of
of this involvement fosters
on Twitter, different levels of personal ethics in any organization, there will be significant ethical diversity and in student learning
trust and confidence in the teaching package
As a result, among employees. Most firmsoutcomes. do not attempt Student
to changefeedback regarding
an individual’s personalthis
ethicstextbook
but is highly favorable.
n the beauty try to hire employees with good character. Therefore, shared ethical values and compliance
adver-
standards are required to prevent deviation from desired ethical conduct. In the workplace,
however, research has established that an organization’s culture often has more influence on
WHAT’S NEW TO THIS EDITION?
th its holi-
marketing decisions than an individual’s own values.43
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• Objectives at the start of each chapter present concrete expectations about what students
are to learn as they read the chapter.
• Every chapter begins with an opening vignette. This feature provides an example of the
real world of marketing that relates to the topics covered in the chapter. After reading the
vignette, the student should be motivated to want to learn more about concepts and strate-
gies that relate to the varying topics. Students will have an opportunity to learn more about
organizations such as Chipotle, L’Oréal, Dunkin’ Donuts, Alibaba, and Spotify.
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and marketing. Corporate strategy is the broadest of the three levels and should be developed
with the organization’s overall mission in mind. Business-unit strategy should be consistent
with the corporate strategy while also serving the unit’s needs. Marketing strategy utilizes the
marketing mix to develop a message that is consistent with the business-unit and corporate
strategies.
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Harmless Harvest, Halo Top Ice ipe sweetened with stevia to slash the calorie count As Halo Top appeared on store shelves,
without sacrificing flavor—a key benefit desired by Woolverton revved up outreach to his target market
Cream, Haney’s Appledale Farm, health-conscious Millennials. In fact, a pint of via Facebook and Instagram. Fans quickly added their
Louisville Slugger, and Tastefully Halo Top has fewer calories and more protein than
a pint of traditional ice cream.
comments and images, building word-of-mouth
authenticity for the young brand, and sending its total
Simple. Packaging reflects another of Woolverton’s follower count over the one-million mark. Before Halo
insights. Consumers in his target market want to Top reached its fifth birthday, its pint sales had out-
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spoon their way through the whole pint in one sitting, stripped the pint sales of the best-established brand
without guilt. As a result, Halo Top is sold only in pints, names in the ice-cream industry for the first time.a
• Key term definitions appear in the margins to help students build their marketing vocabulary.
• Figures, tables, photographs, advertisements, and Snapshot features increase comprehen-
sion and stimulate interest.
• A complete chapter summary reviews the major topics discussed, and the list of important
terms provides another end-of-chapter study aid to expand students’ marketing vocabulary.
10590_ch06_hr_154-182.indd 168 9/8/18 9:16 AM
• Discussion and review questions at the end of each chapter encourage further study and
exploration of chapter content.
• The Developing Your Marketing Plan feature allows students to explore each chapter topic
in relation to developing and implementing a marketing plan.
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runaway swarm.
“That’s what happens when two queens get in a hive,” said Daddy
Bunker. “One queen leaves, taking with her perhaps half the worker
bees and some drones. They fly away to start a new hive, swarm, or
colony, as it is sometimes called.
“But not always do bees swarm because there are two queens in a
hive. Often the queen may take a notion that she would like a new
home, so out she flies and with her go her faithful subjects, just as in
real life the subjects of a human king or queen follow them.”
“Where do you think these bees will go?” asked Rose.
“It is hard to say,” answered their father. “It looks now as though
they would go to the woods,” for they could see the dark cloud of
insects near the edge of the forest. “They may pick out some hollow
tree and set up housekeeping there, making a wax framework to
hold the honey juices they will later gather from the flowers.”
“Then couldn’t Farmer Joel go to that hollow tree and get the
honey if he wanted to?” asked Laddie.
“Yes, that is sometimes done,” his father replied. “And he might
even get his swarm of bees back, if he could find the right hollow
tree. But that isn’t easy. In the olden days, before men knew how to
build little houses, or hives, for the bees to live in, all the honey was
stored in hollow trees. But men studied the ways of bees, they
learned the manner in which queens ruled and how swarming came
about, and they built hives in which it is easier for the bees to store
their honey, and from which it is also easier to take it.”
“What about that smoke?” asked Rose. “I didn’t know bees liked
smoke.”
She was speaking of the queer machine that Farmer Joel carried.
They could see smoke coming from it now in a cloud.
Later, when they had time to look at the smoke machine, the six
little Bunkers saw that it was like a funnel with a bellows, or blower,
beneath it. A fire of rags or rotten wood could be built in the larger
part of the tin funnel, and when the bellows was pressed this blew
out a cloud of smoke.
“Bees don’t like smoke,” said Daddy Bunker. “But when a cloud of
it is blown on them it makes them rather stupid—it calms and quiets
them so they are less likely to sting whoever is working around them.
And a little smoke does them no harm; though, of course, if they had
too much of it they would die.
“So when a man works in his apiary he puts a mosquito veil over
his head and takes his smoker. A few puffs from that down in a hive
of bees will so quiet the insects that he can, with his bare hands, pick
them up and they will not sting him. In this way he can also pick out
the queen from among her thousands of workers and put her in
another hive. If he can do this in time he will stop the swarm from
dividing, part of it flying away, as just happened.”
“Bees are queer,” said Russ.
“Indeed, they are! But I like to hear about them,” said Rose.
By this time Farmer Joel was out of sight in the woods, where his
runaway swarm had gone, and as the children had not been allowed
to follow they played about, waiting for Mr. Todd to return.
“Will he bring the bees back with him?” asked Russ.
“Oh, no, though he could if he had taken a box with him,” said Mr.
Bunker. “All he will do, very likely, is to notice where they light on a
tree, perhaps. Then he may go back this evening and shake them
into a hive.”
It was late that afternoon when Farmer Joel came back, very tired
and looking rather discouraged.
“Did you find the bees?” asked Russ.
“No,” answered Mr. Todd. “They got away, and they took with them
a queen worth fifty dollars. I wish I could have seen where they went,
for then I might get them. But they are lost, I guess.”
“Don’t you think you’ll ever find them again?” Rose wanted to
know.
“I’m afraid not,” answered Farmer Joel. “I’ve lost one of my best
swarms and a fine queen bee. Yes, I’d give even more than fifty
dollars for her if I could get her back. Well, it can’t be helped, I
suppose.”
The six little Bunkers felt sorry for Farmer Joel, and they wished
they might help him, but they did not see how they could go after a
queen and a swarm of stinging bees.
“Come to supper!” called Mrs. Bunker, a little later, when Russ and
Laddie were working over their water wheel and mill, and when Rose
was swinging Margy and Violet under the apple tree.
“Where’s Mun Bun?” asked his mother, as the other little Bunkers
came hurrying to the house at her call.
“I saw him a little while ago,” answered Violet. “He had a shovel
and he was going toward the garden.”
“I guess he was going to dig worms so he could go fishing,”
suggested Laddie. “He asked me if there were fish in the brook.”
“See if you can find him, Russ,” begged his mother.
Russ went toward the garden where he soon saw Mun Bun busy
making a hole, tossing the dirt about with a small shovel.
“Hi there, Mun Bun!” called Russ. “You shouldn’t dig in the garden.
You might spoil something that’s planted there.”
“Nuffin planted here,” said Mun Bun, as he kept on digging. “I did
ast Adam, an’ he said taters was here but he digged ’em all up.
Nuffin planted here, so I plant somethin’.”
“What are you going to plant?” asked Russ, with a smile, while
Rose and the other children drew near.
“I goin’ to plant bones,” answered Mun Bun, hardly looking up, so
busy was he with the shovel.
“Bones!” cried Russ. “You’re going to plant bones?”
“Yes,” answered Mun Bun solemnly, “I plant bones. Look out—
you’re steppin’ on my bones!” he cried, and he pointed to the ground
where lay a pile of chicken bones that Norah had thrown out from
dinner.
“Well, what kind of a garden are you making, anyhow?” asked
Russ. “Planting bones!”
“Yes, I plant bones!” declared Mun Bun, the youngest of the
Bunkers, while the other children looked on in wonder.
CHAPTER XII
A STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
Russ, who was nearest the door, went to open it. Afterward Violet
said she thought it might be some of the neighbors coming to ask for
a piece of Rose’s strawberry shortcake. Laddie said later that he
thought it might be Ralph come on the same sort of errand.
Well, it was a boy who had knocked on the door, but it was not
Ralph, the master of Jimsie, the dog, nor was it any boy the Bunker
children had ever seen around Farmer Joel’s place.
It was a “peddler boy,” as Violet called him—a boy with dark hair,
dark complexion, and deep brown eyes, and he carried a pack on his
back and a box slung by a strap in front of him.
“Shoe laces, collar buttons, suspenders, needles, pins—anything
to-day?” asked the peddler boy, rattling out the words so quickly that
Russ could hardly tell one from another.
“Wha—what’s that?” asked the bewildered Russ.
“Want any shoe laces? Any collar buttons—needles—pins—
suspenders—hooks and eyes—court plaster—pocket knives—any
——”
“No, we don’t want anything to-day,” said Norah, advancing to the
door and looking out over Russ’s head.
“How do you know you don’t want anything, Lady?” asked the
peddler boy with a pert and rather smart manner. “I haven’t told you
all I carry yet. I have——”
“But I tell you we don’t want anything!” insisted Norah. “I know
what you have—notions—and we don’t want any because we’re only
visiting here and——”
“I have baggage tags!” interrupted the boy. “If you are only visiting
you’ll want to send your trunks back and you’d better put a tag on. I’ll
show you!” Quickly he opened the box he carried, slung by a strap
about his neck. The other Bunker children, crowding to the door, saw
in the box many of the things the boy had named—pins, needles,
some combs and brushes, and other things.
The boy took out a package of baggage tags, each tag having a
short piece of cord attached to it. These he held out to Norah, at the
same time saying:
“Use these and you never lose any baggage.”
“We take our baggage in the automobile,” said Rose.
“Well, maybe a piece might fall out and if it had a tag on it you
wouldn’t lose it,” said the boy, who spoke in rather a strange manner,
like a foreigner who had recently learned English.
“I tell you we don’t want anything,” said Norah, speaking a little
more sharply.
“What about some letter paper and envelopes?” persisted the boy.
“You could write, couldn’t you, and I sell ’em cheap——”
“No! No! We don’t want a thing, I tell you!” and Norah spoke very
sharply and began to close the door.
“Huh, I guess it wouldn’t be much good to sell you letter paper,”
sneered the boy. “You’re so mean you haven’t any friends that’d
want you to write!”
The door was closed but the words came through.
“Say,” cried Russ, as he struggled to open the door again, “if you
talk like that to our Norah——”
“Never mind,” laughed the good-natured cook. “Such peddlers
aren’t worth answering. He’s angry because we didn’t buy
something. If he had been polite about it I might, but he was too——”
“Too smart! That’s what he was!” finished Rose, and that about
described the shoe-lace peddler.
In the kitchen Norah and the six little Bunkers could hear him
muttering to himself as he walked away, but as Daddy Bunker just
then called the children to give them some picture papers that had
come by mail, they forgot all about the impolite lad.
The Bunker children had fun looking through the illustrated
magazine and they were rather glad to sit down and do this, for
picking the strawberries on the distant hill had been rather tiring.
“I wish supper would soon be ready. I want some of Rose’s
shortcake,” remarked Violet.
“It looked good,” returned Russ. “If it tastes half as good as it
looks, it will be great!”
“I hope it will be good,” said Rose modestly.
Six hungry little Bunkers sat down to the supper table, and pretty
soon there were no more six hungry little Bunkers, for they ate so
many of the good things Norah cooked for them that they were no
longer hungry. But there was still six little Bunkers, and they were
anxious to try Rose’s strawberry shortcake.
“I’ll bring it in to the table and Rose can cut it,” said Norah.
She went to the pantry, but in less than half a minute she came
hurrying back with a strange look on her face.
“What’s the matter?” asked Daddy Bunker. “Did you see a ghost,
Norah?”
“No, sir. But—but—didn’t we put the strawberry shortcake in the
pantry?” she asked Mrs. Bunker.
“Yes, surely,” was the answer. “I saw you put it there to cool.”
“Well, it isn’t there now!” exclaimed Norah.
“Oh, did some one take my lovely strawberry shortcake?” sighed
Rose.
“Russ, you aren’t playing any of your jokes, are you?” asked his
father, somewhat sternly. “Did you take Rose’s shortcake and hide it,
just for fun?”
“No, sir! I never touched her shortcake. I didn’t see it after Norah
put it away!”
“I’ll take a look,” said Mrs. Bunker. “Perhaps Farmer Joel went in
and set it on a higher shelf.”
“No, indeed!” declared Mr. Todd. “I never go into the pantry. That
isn’t my part of the house. And Adam didn’t touch the shortcake, I’m
sure. Did you?” he asked.
Mr. North shook his head.
“I like strawberry shortcake,” he said, “but I’d never think of playing
a joke with the one Rose baked.”
By this time Mrs. Bunker came back from the pantry whither she
had gone to make a search.
“The shortcake isn’t there,” she said.
“Who could have taken it?” asked Norah.
“Maybe Jimsie!” suggested Russ.
“No dog could reach up to the high sill of the pantry window,” said
Mrs. Bunker. “I can see where the cake was placed on the sill, for a
little of the red juice ran out and made a stain. The cake was lifted
out of the window, perhaps by some one from the outside.”
“I’ll have a look!” exclaimed Mr. Bunker.
He hurried outside to the pantry window at the back of the house,
followed by Russ, Rose and the others. Supper was over except for
the dessert, and this finish of the meal was to have been the
shortcake. With this gone—well, there wasn’t any dessert, that’s all!
Mr. Bunker looked carefully under the window, motioning to the
others to keep back so they would not trample in any footprints that
might remain in the soft ground. Carefully Mr. Bunker looked and
then he said:
“Some boy went there, reached in and took the cake.”
“What makes you think it was a boy?” asked Farmer Joel.
“Because of the size of the footprints. They are not much larger
than those Russ would make.”
“I wonder if Ralph was here?” murmured Rose.
“No, I saw Ralph and his Jimsie dog going over to Woodport right
after dinner,” remarked Adam North. “He said he was going to be
gone all day. Ralph didn’t take the cake, nor did his dog Jimsie. Of
that I’m sure.”
“Then I know who it was!” suddenly exclaimed Russ.
“Who?” they all asked.
“That peddler, the shoe-lace boy!” Russ answered. “He was mad
because we wouldn’t buy anything, and he sneaked around and took
Rose’s shortcake off the window sill.”
Russ started toward the road.
“Where are you going?” asked his father.
“I’m going to chase after that shoe-lace boy and make him give
back the strawberry shortcake!” cried Russ.
CHAPTER XIV
THE SHORTCAKE COMES BACK
Before his father could stop him Russ had run out on the porch.
Laddie, too, left his seat and started after his brother.
“Charles!” exclaimed Mrs. Bunker, “are you going to let them go
after that boy? He’s big and might hurt them!”
“I guess Russ and Laddie together are a match for that mean little
peddler,” answered Mr. Bunker. “But perhaps I’d better trail along
after them to see that they don’t get hurt,” he added, getting up. “I
hardly believe, however, that they can catch that peddler. He must
be a long way off by this time.”
The two oldest Bunker boys were already out in the road, looking
up and down for a sight of the shoe-lace peddler.
“Which way do you think he went, Russ?” asked Laddie.
“I don’t know,” was the answer, for the boy who it was thought had
taken Rose’s strawberry shortcake was not in sight. “But here comes
a man driving a team,” Russ went on. “We’ll ask him if he saw this
peddler down the road.”
A neighboring farmer who was known to Russ and Laddie just
then approached Farmer Joel’s house. Mr. Bunker, who was slowly
following his two sons, heard Russ ask:
“Did you see anything of a shoe-lace peddler down the road, Mr.
Harper?”
“A shoe-lace peddler?” repeated Mr. Harper. “Um, let me see now.
Yes, I did pass a boy with a pack on his back down by the white
bridge,” he answered.
“That’s the fellow!” exclaimed Russ. “Come on, Laddie!”
“Charles,” said Mrs. Bunker, following her husband out to the front
gate, the other little Bunkers trailing along behind, “do you really
think you ought to let them go?”
“I don’t see any harm in it,” he answered. “In the first place, I don’t
believe Russ and Laddie will catch that boy. But if they do, I’ll follow
along to see that he doesn’t harm them.”
“And if you need help call on us!” chuckled Farmer Joel, as he and
Adam North began to do the night chores around the place. Farmer
Joel called it “doing his chores,” when he locked the barn, saw that
the hen-house was fastened, and got in kindling for the morning fire.
“Oh, I guess there’ll be no trouble,” said Mr. Bunker.
Rose came hurrying out toward the front gate, running ahead of
her father.
“Where are you going, Rose?” he asked her. “I’m going with Russ
and Laddie,” she answered.
“Oh, no, Rose,” said Mrs. Bunker. “I don’t believe I would.”
“Yes, please!” pleaded Rose. “It was my shortcake that peddler
boy took, and I want to bring it back. Please let me go!”
She seemed so much in earnest about it, and looked so
disappointed when her mother had spoken of keeping her back, that
Daddy Bunker said:
“All right, run along. But don’t get hurt. Your mother and I will come
along after you.”
So it was that Russ, Laddie, and Rose hurried down the country
road after the peddler who it was suspected had taken the cake.
Trailing after them, but coming more slowly, were Mr. and Mrs.
Bunker and the other little Bunkers.
“What shall we do to him, Russ, when we catch him?” asked
Rose, as she jogged along beside her older brother.
“I’ll ask him for the cake, that’s what I’ll do.”
“And if he doesn’t give it up?”
“Then—then—I—I’ll thump him!” exclaimed Russ, doubling up his
fists.
“And I’ll help,” offered Laddie excitedly.
“We-ell, perhaps,” said Rose doubtfully. It sounded to her a little
too boastful.
The white bridge which Mr. Harper had spoken of was about half a
mile down the road from Farmer Joel’s place, and soon after making
a turn in the highway Russ, Rose, and Laddie saw the structure.
“I see some one fishing off the bridge,” remarked Russ. “Maybe it’s
that boy.”
As the three Bunkers came nearer they could see a boy sitting on
the bridge railing, holding a pole from which a line was dangling in
the water that flowed under the bridge. And when the children drew a
little nearer they could make out that the fisher was the shoe-lace
peddler boy.
Almost at the same time that they recognized him, the boy knew
them, and he sprang down from the bridge railing, began winding up
his line and started to pick up his box and basket.
“Here, you! Wait a minute!” ordered Russ.
“I don’t have to wait!” sneered the peddler. “There’s no fish here,
so why should I wait?”
“You’ve got something that we want!” went on Rose, drawing
nearer with Russ, while Laddie began looking about for a club or a
stone.
“You said you didn’t want anything,” grumbled the peddler. “I was
up by your house, and you wouldn’t buy any shoe laces nor collar
buttons yet, so why should it be you come running after me now?”
“Because you have my shortcake!” burst out Rose indignantly.
“You took my strawberry shortcake and I want it back.”
“I should have taken your shortcake, little girl?” cried the boy, as if
greatly surprised. “You are mistaken! Why should you say I have
your shortcake?”
“Because you were the only one around the house after the
shortcake was set in the pantry window to cool,” said Russ boldly.
“And my father saw your footprints under the window.”
“And my father’s coming, and so is my mother, and if you don’t
give my sister back her cake they’ll have you arrested!” threatened
Laddie.
“Oh, your father and mother—they is coming, are they?” asked the
boy, who did not speak very good English. He was not quite so bold
and defiant as at first.
“Yes, they’re coming,” said Russ, looking over his shoulder down
the road. “But if you give up the shortcake there won’t be any
trouble.”
“Why should I have your cake?” cried the boy. “Look you and see
—it is not in mine pockets!” He turned one or two pockets inside out
as he stood on the bridge.
“Pooh! Just as if you could put my big strawberry shortcake in your
pocket!” scoffed Rose.
“It’s in your box or your basket, that’s where it is!” declared Laddie.
And then another thought came to him as he added: “Unless you’ve
eaten it!”
“Oh!” cried Rose, in distress at the thought of her good strawberry
shortcake having been eaten by the shoe-lace peddler.
“I should eat your cake? No! No!” cried the boy, raising his hand in
the air over his head.
“Well, I’m going to have a look in your basket!” threatened Russ,
walking toward the place on the bridge where the peddler boy had
set down the things in which he carried his wares.
“Don’t you touch my basket!” yelled the peddler. “If you open it I
shall a blow give you on the nose!”
He said it in such a funny, excited way that Rose had to laugh, and
Russ said:
“I can give you a hit on the nose, too!”
“You don’t dast!” sneered the peddler.
“Yes, I dare!” insisted Russ.
“And I’ll help him!” added Laddie, who had found a stick.
The peddler boy, who was almost a head taller than Russ, closed
his fists and was walking toward the three Bunker children. Rose felt
her heart beating very fast. She looked back down the road and saw
her father and mother coming, followed by Margy, Mun Bun, and
Violet.
“Oh, here come daddy and mother!” cried Rose.
Instantly a change came over the peddler boy. His fists
unclenched and he smiled in a sickly, frightened sort of way.
“Oh, well, maybe your shortcake did get in my box by mistake,” he
said. “I takes me a look and see.”
Quickly he opened his box, and there, wrapped in a clean paper,
was the strawberry shortcake Rose had made.
“Oh!” cried the little girl, in delight. “Oh, my shortcake has come
back!”
“Huh! I thought you said you didn’t have it!” exclaimed Russ, as
the peddler lad lifted out the cake and handed it to Rose.
“Well, maybe I make a mistake and forget,” said the other.
“Huh, I guess you forgot on purpose!” declared Laddie.
By this time Mr. and Mrs. Bunker had come up. They saw that
Rose had her shortcake again.
“Look here, young man,” said Mr. Bunker sternly to the peddler,
“you mustn’t go about the country stealing things, you know! You
may land in jail if you try that again.”
“It was all a mistake, I tell you!” said the shoe-lace peddler, who
was really older in experience than a boy of his years should have
been. “It was a mistake.”
“What do you mean—a mistake?” asked Mr. Bunker.