“Sounds like Trouble,” answered Ted.
It was Trouble. Baby William had taken Nicknack’s rope, by which the goat was tied to a stake just outside the barn, and this rope the little fellow had made fast to a wheelbarrow. Trouble wanted to have Nicknack pull him, but every time the goat straightened out the rope the wheelbarrow would upset, and Trouble, who had climbed in to get a ride, would be spilled out. But he fell on the soft grass and was not hurt.
“Oh, Trouble! What are you doing?” cried Jan, as her little brother tipped over for perhaps the fifth time, though of course Nicknack did not mean to do it.
“Me goin’ to gib rides an’ make money to buy cherries—’cause grandpa’s all goned,” was the answer. “Giddap, ole Nicknack!”
Nicknack, reaching for a choice bit of grass, overturned the wheelbarrow again, and out popped the little boy.
“Oh, you dear bunch of Trouble!” cried Mother Martin, as she laughingly ran to pick him up. “You are always doing something!”
And so he was. But, for that matter, so were the Curlytops. And, leaving them to have more fun on Cherry Farm, we will say good-bye.
THE CURLYTOPS SERIES
By HOWARD R. GARIS
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Jacket in full colors.
Price per volume, 50 cents. Postage 10 cents additional.