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"If you do he'll want to come with us, and we can't make Nicknack race." "I wasn't waking him up, it was you!" exclaimed Jan. "He keeps pulling my doll's legs, Mother and " "I only pulled 'em a little bit, just to see if they had any springs in 'em. Jan said her doll was a circus lady and could jump on the back of a horse. I wanted to see if she had any springs in her legs."
And the children did. In the next volume of this series, to be called "The Curlytops Snowed In; or, Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds," you may read about the good times they had when they went back home. "Come on, Jan, we'll have a last ride with Nicknack!" called Ted to his sister about a week after the meteor had been dug up. In a few days the Curlytops were to leave their camp on Star Island.
"That's Nicknack!" cried Teddy, rushing forward. "I hope your little brother is there, too," said Mrs. Newton. And Trouble was. When they got to the lower end of the vacant lot there, in a tangle of weeds, was the goat-wagon, and Nicknack was in a tangle of harness fast to it. "Look at Trouble!" cried Teddy.
"I looked under the shed for that and it wasn't there." "Then I can just about guess what has happened," said Daddy Martin. "Trouble heard as talking about taking Nicknack over to Mr. Newton's house, where he would be kept while we are at Uncle Frank's ranch, and the little fellow has just about taken the goat over himself." "Nonsense!" exclaimed Mrs. Martin.
I've been here making the kite all morning, and I'd have seen Nicknack all right, and Trouble, too, if they had come here." "Well, that's funny!" exclaimed Mr. Martin. "I wonder where he can have gone?" "Maybe Nicknack ran away with him," suggested Bob. "Oh, don't say such things!" exclaimed his mother. "I don't think that can have happened," returned Mr.
"You're too little," declared Jan. "Oh, Ted! what if he should chase us? Was it an awful big bear? I didn't dare look much." "It wasn't so very big." "Was it as big as Nicknack?" "Oh, bigger'n him a lot." "Oh!" and again Jan looked back over her shoulder. "I hope he doesn't chase us," she added. "I'll fix him if he does!" threatened Ted. "I'll fix him!" "How?
"What'll we do to-day?" asked Janet, as she tried to get a comb through her thick, curly hair. "We'll go for a ride with Nicknack," decided Ted, who was also having a hard time with his locks. "Oh, I wish I was a barber!" he cried, as the comb stuck in a bunch of curls. "Why?" asked his mother, who was giving Trouble his breakfast.
"Oh, he's been pretending he was a bucking bronco, like those Uncle Frank has on his ranch, and he tossed Trouble downstairs. But the baby didn't get hurt, fortunately. Now Ted's playing Wild West stagecoach with Nicknack and Janet got frightened and wouldn't ride." "Hum, I see," said Ted's father slowly. "Our boy is getting older, I guess. He needs rougher play.
A little later, when Teddy and Janet were tired of looking for the Indians which they never saw, they were talking about the good times they had had with Nicknack, and wondering if Uncle Frank would have a goat, or anything like it, when Trouble came toddling up to their seat. "What you got?" asked Teddy of his little brother, noticing that Baby William was chewing something.
"You'll all sleep better if you get some fresh air; and it's warm, even if it has been raining." "Maybe we can take Nicknack and have a ride!" exclaimed Teddy. "If it stops raining," said his mother. Ted, Jan and Trouble ran up and down in front of the house while the rain fell softly and the big drops dripped from the trees.
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