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Stopping no longer to wonder who had dropped the bundle, the Curlytops took a drink from the canteen. They had not been used to drinking out of a bottle since they were babies, and some of the water ran down their necks. But they did not mind this. And, even though the water was rather warm, they felt much better after having had a drink. "I wish we could give the ponies some," said Janet.
But neither the Curlytops nor their mother were as frightened at this play of the cowboys as they had been at first. "I wish I had a gun that would go bang," said Teddy one day. "Oh, The-o-dore Mar-tin!" cried his sister, after the fashion of her mother. "If you had I'd never go riding ponyback with you never again! I'd be afraid of you! So there!" "Well, so would the Indians!" said Ted.
So he was more often spoken to as Ted or Teddy, and his sister Janet was called Jan. Though oftener still they were called the "Curlytops," or, if one was speaking to one or the other he would say "Curlytop." That was because both Teddy and Janet had such very, very curly hair.
I will just say that the Curlytops were still at Cherry Farm, though Father Martin had gone away for a little while. And now, having told you about the family, I'll go back where I left off, and we'll see what is happening. "Yes," said Grandpa Martin, "I think I will take you Curlytops to camp on Star Island. Camping will do you good. You'll learn lots in the woods there.
"I guess the Indians sold the horses and cattle and then they hid themselves. Well, I hope they don't take any more of my animals." But there was more trouble ahead for Uncle Frank. The Curlytops had a fine time on his ranch, though.
"And you mustn't go off again, and leave him by himself," said their mother to the Curlytops. "There is no telling what he'll do." "That's right," said Grandpa Martin with a laugh. "You may go away, leaving Trouble standing on his feet, but when you come back he's standing on his head. Oh, you're a great bunch of trouble!" and he caught the little fellow up in his arms and kissed him.
Crittendon," he said, "and he told me that he had seen you Curlytops at the store and mentioned the tramps on Star Island." "Are they really there?" asked Jan eagerly. "Well, they might have been. But we won't let them bother us if we go camping. I'll make them clear out. Most of that island belongs to me, and the rest to friends of mine. They'll do as I say, and we'll clear out the tramps."
All the next day and night the Curlytops traveled in the train, and though Jan and Ted liked to look out of the windows, they grew tired of this after a while and began to ask: "When shall we be at Uncle Frank's ranch?" "Pretty soon now," said their father. I will not tell you all that happened on the journey to the West. Truth to say there was not much except the collision.
So the Curlytops told, and Doctor Bond said, even if he was not a horse doctor, he'd go out and look at the pony in the cave, if the ranch foreman would come with him. "Of course I'll come!" cried Jim Mason. "I wouldn't want to see any pony suffer. And I've doctored quite a few of 'em, even if I don't know much about medicine. Come on, Curlytops!"
The blue fire was flaming up brighter now, and it made a strange light on the faces of the Curlytops and Hal as they gathered about. The sky was cloudy and it was getting dark. "Oh, what is it? What is it?" asked Ted and Jan. "It smells just like old-fashioned sulphur matches that my grandmother used to light," said Nora, who had come out, having seen the queer light from the cook-tent.
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