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Then, before anyone could stop him, he gave a leap over Teddy's head, and into the water splashed Nicknack. The goat had leaped overboard into the deepest part of Clover Lake! "Oh! Oh!" cried Teddy. "Oh, there goes my nice goat! Catch him, Grandpa! Stop him!" Grandpa Martin stopped rowing and looked in surprise at the goat. So did the hired man. "Well, just look!" exclaimed George.
"What?" asked her brother. "Go fishing?" "No, I don't like fishing. Anyhow we went fishing once, and I don't like to see the worms wiggle. Let's make a little play tent for ourselves in the woods." "We haven't any cloth." "We can make one of leaves and branches, just like the bower we made for Nicknack before grandpa put up the little board barn for him." "Yes, we can do that," agreed Ted.
Baby William had, somehow, found his way to the "gold mine," and pretending the pile of sand was a mountain had led Nicknack up it. Then had come the slide down into the big hole which Hal and the Curlytops had dug. If it had not been for Mr. Sander appearing when he did, poor Nicknack might have died. "But, Trouble.
Is he lost?" exclaimed Bob in some dismay, for he was counting on having much fun with the goat when the Curlytops went West. "Nicknack " began Ted. "Have you seen Trouble?" broke in Janet. "Is he lost, too?" Bob inquired. "Say, I guess " "Our goat and little boy seem to have gone off together," explained Mr. Martin to Mrs. Newton who came out on the porch just then.
So it couldn't have been Nicknack. "Anyhow, Trouble's blue-stone castle wasn't just knocked down," went on Hal, "it's gone every stone is gone. Somebody took 'em!" Jan and Ted noticed this for the first time. When Trouble had called out that his playhouse was gone they had thought he meant it was just knocked over. But, instead, it was gone completely. Not a blue stone was left.
"It is," he answered. "I saw it first. It's my bear!" "You can have it every bit of it," said Jan, quickly getting up from the mossy rock on which she had been sitting. "I don't want any of it, not even the stubby tail. I like to own half of Nicknack with you, but I don't want half a bear." "Then I'll take all of it it's my bear," went on Ted.
"How'd he get loose?" asked Jan. "I don't know," Ted answered. "I tied him good and tight by his rope. I wonder if " Just then a voice called: "Wait for me, Nicknack! Wait for me!" "It's Trouble!" cried Jan and Ted together. Ted looked out through the hole the goat had eaten in the side of the bower, and saw Baby William toddling toward him. "Did you let Nicknack loose?" demanded Ted.
Some day I'll take you and my two little Curlytops to the real ocean, and you can taste how salty the waves are. Now we'll throw some more stones." Meanwhile Ted and Jan started for a little walk down the path that went the whole length of Star Island. "Shall we take Nicknack?" asked Jan. "No, let's wait until he dries off after his bath," decided Teddy. "I don't like wet goats."
"Oh, you won't want to do that," her father said. "You'll have ponies to ride, I think." "What'll we do with Nicknack then?" asked Ted. "We'll have to leave him with some neighbor until we come back," answered his father. "I was thinking of asking Mr. Newton to take care of him. Bob Newton is a kind boy and he wouldn't harm your goat." "Yes, Bob is a good boy," agreed Teddy.
He's a funny baby, all right!" "And look how he harnessed him!" exclaimed Bob. Nicknack really wasn't harnessed. The leather straps and the buckles were all tangled up on him, but Trouble had managed to make enough of them stick on the goat's back, and had somehow got part of the harness fast to the wagon, so Nicknack could pull it along.
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