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Daddy Martin wrote from Cresco, where he was looking after his store, that he would soon be back at Cherry Farm, and then he would come out to the camp and spend a week. The Curlytops played all the games they knew. They took long rides with Nicknack, and often Trouble went with them. But it was not all play. Mrs.
"Oh, Mother! don't let the dog hurt our goat!" begged Janet. "I'll drive him away," cried Ted, catching up a stone. "No, you had better let me do it," said Mrs. Martin. She picked up a stick and walked toward the dog, but he did not wait for her to get very close. With a last howl and a bark at Nicknack, the dog ran away, jumped into the lake and swam off toward shore.
He looked around the stable yard and in the barn. No Nicknack was in sight. When the Curlytops were searching they heard their mother calling to them from the house, where their father was waiting for them to come up with Nicknack. He was going over to Mr. Newton's with them. "Ho, Ted! Janet! Where are you?" called Mrs. Martin. "Out here, Mother!" Teddy answered. "Is Trouble there with you?"
Nicknack just let it drip off him, and began to nibble some of the grass that grew on the island. He was making himself perfectly at home, it seemed. The goat-wagon and the other things were soon landed, and then Grandpa Martin and one of the hired men went back for the last load. When that came back and the things were piled up near the tents, the work of setting up the camp went on.
"And you shall have the best I've got. Where are you going off to look for the end of the rainbow and get the pot of gold at the end?" he asked jokingly. "No, we're not going far to-day," answered Ted. "Well, stop in when you're passing this way again," called out the storekeeper as Ted turned Nicknack around for the homeward trip. "I'm always glad to see you."
Then the end of the rope had become tangled in a thick bush and the goat could not pull it loose. He was held as tightly as if tied. In front of him, but far enough away so the goat could not butt him with his horns, which Nicknack tried to do, was a big, and not very nice-looking, dog. This dog was barking fiercely at Nicknack, and the goat could not make him go away.
"Oh, he knows me!" she cried in delight "Now don't shake yourself the way Skyrocket does, and get me all wet!" she begged, as Nicknack scrambled out on shore, water dripping from his hairy coat. But the goat did not act like a dog, who gives himself a great shaking whenever he comes on shore after having been in the water.
Filled with the new idea, the two children hurried around the side of the farmhouse out toward the barn where Nicknack, their pet goat, was kept. Mrs. Martin smiled as she saw them go. "Well, there'll be quiet for a little while," she said, "and William can have his sleep." "What's the matter, Ruth!" asked an old gentleman coming up the walk just then.
The first book is named "The Curlytops at Cherry Farm," and in that I had the pleasure of telling you about Ted and Janet and Trouble Martin and their father and mother, when they went to Grandpa Martin's place, called Cherry Farm, which was near the village of Elmburg, not far from Clover Lake. There the children found a goat, which they named Nicknack, and they kept him as a pet.
"Yes," answered Ted, "I do. And I'll get him to stick 'em in the bear if he comes too close. Giddap, Nicknack!" and Ted flicked the goat with the ends of the reins. I think he wanted the goat to go faster so there would be no danger of the bear's chasing after him and his sister. Perhaps Ted thought Nicknack might be afraid of the bear, even if the goat did have sharp horns.
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