“In the woods,” answered Janet calmly.
“I know—yes. But what woods? We didn’t come here before.”
“Maybe it’s a short cut to Cherry Farm,” said his sister.
Ted looked all about him. He could see nothing in the woods that he had ever seen before, not a house or a barn was in sight.
“Janet,” he said, and he spoke in a whisper, half afraid Trouble would hear and be frightened, “Jan, we—we’re lost!”
“Lost? In these woods?”
“Yep! We’re lost!” and Ted got down out of the wagon and tied Nicknack to a tree.
CHAPTER XIX
THE LOLLYPOP MAN
“What you doin’ that for?” asked Jan, as she saw her brother knotting the rope that was fast to the goat’s horns: “What you making it so tight for?”
“So Nicknack won’t walk off. I don’t want him to be any more lost than he is.”