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She felt safer now, for Nicknack was going fast, and the hollow log, into which the furry animal had crawled, was out of sight. "I'll make our goat buck the bear with his horns if he chases us, that's what I'll do!" declared Ted. "Oh, that would be good!" exclaimed Jan in delight. "Nicknack is brave and his horns are sharp. 'Member how he stuck 'em in the fence one day?"
Then Ted started Nicknack toward the craft. "Giddap!" cried Teddy to Nicknack. "We're going to camp on Star Island, and you can have lots of fun! Giddap!" Nicknack stood still on the dock for a few seconds, and he seemed to be sniffing the boat and the water in which it floated.
Then came the last day in Cresco that is the last day for some time for the Curlytops. The house was closed, Nora going to stay with friends. Skyrocket, the dog, and Turnover, the cat, were sent to kind neighbors, who promised to look after them. Bob had already started to take care of Nicknack. "All aboard!" called the conductor of the train the Curlytops and the others took. "All aboard!"
The Curlytops hurried toward the house, leaving open the empty little stable in which Nicknack was usually kept. They found their father and their mother looking around in the yard, Mrs. Martin had a worried air. "Couldn't you find him?" asked Daddy Martin. "We didn't look very much," answered Teddy. "Nicknack is gone, and " "Nicknack gone!" cried Mrs. Martin.
"Where're you going, Jan?" he asked, as he saw his sister hurrying away. "I'm going home. I don't like it here. I'm going to make Nicknack run home with me." Teddy got up, too. He did not stop to pick up the cookie he had dropped. "I I guess I'll go with you, Jan," he said. "I guess my bear will stay in the log until I come back."
"There must have been a cave-in at our gold mine," said Hal. "But how did Nicknack get here?" Ted went on. "I guess Trouble must have untied him and brought him here." suggested Janet. Then they all watched while Grandpa Martin and the lollypop man dug out the goat. "Baa-a-a-a-a!" bleated Nicknack as he scrambled out after most of the sand had been shoveled off his back. "Baa-a-a-a!" "My!
"The sooner we get that goat over on the island, the better I'll feel." "Why, you're not afraid of him, are you?" asked the hired man whose name was George. "No. But I don't know how easy it's going to be to ferry him over. He may start some of his tricks. So we won't put much in the boat this time. We'll leave plenty of room for the goat and the cart." "Oh, Nicknack will be good," declared Ted.
"No, we'll leave Nicknack here," said his father, as he cuddled the little fellow up in his lap. Trouble said nothing more just then but, afterward, Ted remembered that Baby William seemed to be thinking pretty hard about something. A few days later, when some of the trunks had been partly packed, ready for the trip West, Mr.
After breakfast the children ran to hitch Nicknack to the wagon. Grandpa Martin was going back in the rowboat to the mainland to get a few things that had been forgotten, and also another bag of salt. "And I'll hide it away from Trouble," said Nora with a laugh. "We don't want any more salty oceans around here." "Let's drive away before Trouble sees us," proposed Jan to her brother.
Martin, "Nicknack is a very gentle goat, and Trouble is used to playing with him all alone. He never yet has been hurt. Of course we are not sure that the two went away together. Trouble disappeared from the house, and he was last seen going toward the stable. "When Ted and Jan went out to get Nicknack he was gone, too, and so was the wagon and harness.
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