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"It won't be night for a good while," he said, "but I guess maybe we'd better go back. I can't see daddy, Uncle Frank or the cowboys." He raised himself in the stirrups and looked across the prairies, shading his eyes with his hand the way he had seen some of the cowboys do. Nothing was in sight. "Come on, Jan, we'll go back," he said. Clipclap and Star Face were turned around.
"Gid-dap, Clipclap!" cried Teddy. The two ponies started to run. "Oh, I'm going to beat! I'm going to beat!" Janet cried, for she saw that Star Face was getting ahead of Clipclap. "No you're not!" shouted Teddy, and he touched his heel to the pony's flank. Clipclap gave a jump forward, and then something happened.
Two or three days after this, when the ponies had been driven away to the railroad station to be shipped to a far-off state, a cowboy came riding in with news that he had seen a band of two or three Indians pass along the prairie near the rocks where Teddy and Janet had found Clipclap.
"I'd know the way home back to the ranch house if we could find the rocks with the cave where Clipclap was," Teddy replied. "Let's look for them some more," suggested Janet. "If we don't get home pretty soon we'll be all in the dark and and we'll have to stay out here all alone." "Are you afraid?" asked Ted, looking at his sister. "Yes. Won't you be?" "Pooh!
"But I'm tired and hungry, and I want a drink awful bad." "So do I," added Teddy. "We'll go on a little more." So, wearily, the ponies walked on carrying the Curlytops. Ted kept looking ahead, and to the left and right, trying to find the rocks. All at once Clipclap stumbled and nearly fell. "Whoa there! Look out!" cried Teddy, reining up the head of his animal as he had seen Uncle Frank do.
Presently the bright ball of fire began to go down in the west, and the shadows of Teddy and Janet grew long on the prairie. They knew what those long shadows meant that it was getting late afternoon. After a while Janet turned in her saddle and looked back. "Oh, Teddy!" she cried. "I can't see the spring rocks," for that is what the children had called the place where they had found Clipclap.
I can't be sure I'll cure him, though, until I know what the matter is. What seems to be the trouble?" "He's awful sick," said Janet, "and he groans awful." "Hum! He must have some pain then." "We gave him some cold water," added Teddy. "Yes? Well, maybe that was a good thing and maybe it wasn't. I can't tell until I see him. Who did you say it was?" "Clipclap," replied Teddy.
Teddy took a flying leap, and right over Clipclap's head he sailed, coming down on his hands and knees some distance off. Clipclap fell down and rolled over in the grass while Janet kept on toward the hill that marked the end of the race. The little girl reached this place first, not being able to stop her pony when she saw what had happened to Teddy.
They rode many miles on Star Face and Clipclap, sometimes taking Trouble with them. "I want to dwive," said the little fellow one day, as he sat on the saddle in front of his brother. "All right, you may drive a little while," Teddy answered, and he let Baby William hold the reins. "Now I a cowboy!" exclaimed the little fellow. "Gid-dap, Clipclap! I go lasso a Injun!"
The Curlytops said they would, and they were soon taking turns riding Trouble on the saddles in front of them. Clipclap and Star Face liked the children and were well-behaved ponies, so there was no danger in putting Trouble on the back of either as long as Ted or Janet held him.
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