“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.”