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"No, they wouldn't do that," Teddy decided, after thinking it over awhile. "They'd be afraid to stay so near Uncle Frank's ranch. Anyhow the cave isn't big enough." "It was big enough for Clipclap." "Yes, but he's a little pony. Anyhow, we'll look in the cave and then we'll ride on along the trail until we catch up to daddy and Uncle Frank." "What'll they say?" "I guess they'll be s'prised."
"How do you know?" demanded Janet. "'Cause I heard Uncle Frank say so. Mother asked where a doctor lived, and Uncle Frank showed her that white house. I was on the porch and I heard him. He said if ever we needed a doctor we only had to go there and Doctor Bond would come right away. He's the only doctor around here." "Then we'd better get him for our pony Clipclap!" exclaimed Janet.
And the Curlytops rode away over the prairie. Clipclap and Star Face, the two sturdy little ponies, trotted bravely along, carrying Teddy and Janet on their backs. The ponies did not wonder where they were going they hardly ever did that. They were satisfied to go wherever their master or mistress guided them, for they knew the children would be good to them.
"Don't let 'em run away with you!" laughed the cowboy, as he helped Jan and Ted into their saddles. "Oh, Clipclap and Star Pace won't run away!" declared the little girl. "They're too nice." "Yes, they are nice ponies," agreed the cowboy. "Well, good-bye and good luck."
We know the way over to the rocks where we found Clipclap in the cave, and from there we can ride farther on, just like daddy and Uncle Frank. Come on!" Janet thought for a minute. She wanted to go as much as did Teddy. It did not seem very wrong. "Well, we'll ride a little way," she said. "But we've got to come back before dark." "All right," agreed Teddy. "We will!"
Then they'd think we could ride all right!" went on Ted. "Come on, let's hurry! Gid-dap!" he called to Clipclap. "Where are we going first?" asked Janet. "To the rocks, where we found my pony in the cave," answered her brother, as he patted the little animal on the neck. "The cowboy said he saw the Indians near there." "Maybe they're hiding in the cave," suggested Janet.
"And in the morning we can ride on and find the ranch, and the cowboys there will take us to Ring Rosy," added Janet. "Let's do it, Teddy." They looked again at the strange valley in which the horses were moving about. Clipclap whinnied and one of the other ponies answered. But they could not come out because of the fence, part of which was built in and across the little river.
It may be that he thinks, when the reins are over his head and down on the ground, they are tied to something, so he could not run away if he wanted to. At any rate, Clipclap and Star Face stayed where Ted and Janet left them, and the little Curlytops watched the gopher hole. "I wonder when he'll come out," said Janet after a bit. "Shs-s-s-s!" whispered Teddy. "Don't talk!"
However he knew he was too small to have a firearm, so he did not tease for it. Sometimes, when Uncle Frank or his foreman, Jim Mason, went on short rides around the ranch, Teddy and Janet went with them on their ponies. Star Pace and Clipclap were two sturdy little animals, and were gentle with the children. "Come on! Let's have a race!" Ted would call. "All right.
But for some time the Curlytops did not forget the fright their first view of the Indians gave them. In the days that followed Teddy and Janet had many rides on Clipclap and Star Face, their two nice ponies. Sometimes they were allowed to go a little way over the prairies by themselves. But when they went for a long ride Uncle Frank, Jim Mason, their father or some of the cowboys were with them.
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