"They wouldn't be for me," said Ruth's mother, with a laugh. "Good-bye, Curlytops! Come over again, and bring a pussy or doggie with you."
Ted and Janet promised they would, and then they hurried back across the street after Trouble. They wanted to make sure he would not get into any more mischief with the pets.
Daddy Martin was told, that evening after supper, all that had happened during the day, from the discovery that Slider and Snuff could do tricks, to the finding of the pet alligator in baby Ruth's carriage.
"Well, it seems you had lots of excitement to-day," he said to his wife.
"Just a little," she agreed.
"But if Uncle Toby's pets are to make trouble I don't know that we can keep them," Daddy Martin said.
Teddy and Janet looked at each other.
"Oh, we can't let them go now!" exclaimed Teddy.
"We're just getting to love them!" his sister added.
"And we haven't found out any tricks yet that the white mice can do," Teddy went on. "We haven't even named 'em!"