"Hurray!" he called to Janet "I'm learning to be a cowboy!"
"That's right—you are!" laughed Daddy Martin, coming out just then. "How do you like it?"
"Dandy!" Teddy said. "Come on. Janet!"
"Yes, we ought to have let the ladies go first," said the cowboy. "But I didn't know whether the leetle gal cared for horses," he went on to Mr. Martin.
"I like horses," admitted Janet. "But maybe I'll fall off."
"I won't let you," the cowboy answered, as he lifted her to the saddle. Then he led the pony around with her on his back, and Janet liked it very much.
"I wants a wide, too!" cried Trouble.
"Hi! that's so! Mustn't forget you!" laughed the cowboy, and he held Baby William in the saddle, much to the delight of that little fellow.
"Now you mustn't bother any more," said Daddy Martin. "You children have had fun enough. You'll have more pony-back rides later."
"Yes, I'll have to go now," the cowboy said, and, leaping into the saddle, he rode away in a cloud of dust.