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"Trouble? No, he isn't here!" "He isn't!" exclaimed his mother. "Where in the world can he be? Nora says she saw him going out to the barn a little while ago. Please find him!" "Huh!" exclaimed Ted. "Trouble is gone and so is Nicknack! I s'pose they've gone together!" "Well have to look," said Janet.
Martin listened to the goat's call. "I think he's down this path," she said, and she took one midway between those Ted and Janet would have taken. "Come along!" she called back to the two children. "We'll soon find Nicknack." "Here, Nicknack! Here, Nicknack!" called Ted. "Come on, we want you to give us a ride!" added Janet.
"So would I. But we mustn't eat green ones." "Not if they're too green," agreed Teddy. "But a little green won't hurt." They drove on, Nicknack trotting along the path through the woods, now and then stopping to nibble at the leaves.
Ted suddenly called to Nicknack, and the little boy pulled on the reins by which he guided the goat or "steered" it, as he sometimes called it. "What's the matter?" asked Hal. "Nicknack wants to go over that way and I want him to go straight ahead," answered Ted. "Maybe he sees some of those blue rocks the way he wants to go," suggested Hal. "Oh, I don't guess so," replied his chum.
She got into the cart and turned the goat about, ready to leave the place. She gave a look over her shoulder at the hollow log into which she and Ted had seen the furry, brown animal crawl. It did not seem to be coming out, and Jan was glad of that. "Giddap, Nicknack!" she called to the goat, and as the animal started off Ted jumped into the wagon from behind. "I wish I had a gun," he said.
The Curlytops asked all sorts of questions of their father about Uncle Frank's ranch, but though he could tell them, in a general way, what it looked like, Mr. Martin did not really know much about the place, as he had never been there. "But you'll find lots of horses, ponies and cattle there," he said. "And can we take Nicknack with us, to ride around the ranch?" asked Jan, in her turn.
Is there any supper left for us?" he asked eagerly. "Well, I guess we can find a cold potato, or something like it, for such tramps as you," laughed Grandpa Martin. "But where on earth have you been, and what kept you?" Then Ted put Nicknack in the barn. But when he came back he and Jan between them told of having stayed playing later than they meant to.
"I should say we did!" cried Bob. "What are you doing here?" "Havin' wide," was the answer. "Everybody go 'way out West I not have a goat den. I no want Nicknack to go 'way." "Oh, I see what he means!" exclaimed Teddy, after thinking over what his little brother said. "He heard us talking about bringing Nicknack over to your house, Bob, to keep him for us.
"Well, I was. But maybe we can find some more of the blue stones for ourselves. We'll look around before we ask your grandpa to help." Janet wanted to stay around camp and play with her dolls that afternoon, and she took care of Trouble. "Then we'll go for a goat ride," said Ted. "Come on, Hal." The two boys hitched Nicknack to the wagon, and set off down the island.
I feeded 'em to him. Nicknack was a hungry goat," said Trouble, smiling. "I should think he was hungry, to eat up all those cookies! I only had one!" cried Jan. "What! Did Nicknack get at the cookies?" cried Ted, coming back with a light lap robe. "Trouble gave them to him," explained Janet. "Oh dear! I was so hungry for another!"
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