The Curlytops found out when they got back to Cherry Farm, for they asked Grandma Martin.
“Yes, that is a Home for crippled children that was partly rebuilt and added to last year,” she said. “It has cured many lame little ones. I guess what Hal meant about a party is that they are getting up a sort of fair, or entertainment, to raise money. It needs it since they rebuilt and made an addition to enlarge the place. All the folks around here are going to help.”
“Are you going to? Can we help?” asked Jan eagerly.
“Well, father was going to give them a hundred dollars,” said Grandma Martin slowly, “but since he had such bad luck and lost so much I’m afraid he can’t. But I’m going to bake some cakes so they can sell them at the fair, and that may help some.”
“I want some cake!” declared Trouble. “I’s hungry!”
“Then you shall have some bread and milk,” answered his mother. “You mustn’t have cake.”
“I wonder how we could help?” asked Jan of her brother later that day. “I’d like to raise some money for the Home. We did once for our Sunday-school by selling lemonade.”
“Maybe we could do that here,” answered Ted. “We’ll ask Hal this afternoon.”
But Hal, for some reason, did not come back to the field after dinner, though Jan and Ted went there in the goat cart. Trouble had to have his afternoon sleep, curling up with his football in his arms, so he did not go with them.
“Well, we’ll ask him to-morrow,” said Jan, as they drove Nicknack back across the green grass.