“And if I got the ten dollars I’d buy my mother a new diamond locket in place of the one I lost for her,” went on Janet.
“How was that?” asked one of the men, for they took a kindly interest in the children. Then Janet told how the ornament was lost the day she and her brother were playing house with Trouble.
“That was too bad,” remarked Jake. And then, as the children went back home with the crow trap in which they had caught nothing, one lumberman said to the other:
“I guess there isn’t one chance in a hundred of finding that lame, tame crow.”
“I should say not,” agreed the other. “Nor of finding that diamond locket, either.”
Of course those at the bungalow must be told of what had happened to Ted in the hollow log, and he was warned not to try such a dangerous thing again.
Many times the Curlytops visited the general store, which was now running well under the direction of Mr. Martin. The lumbermen and their families bought their supplies at the store, and so did some of the near-by farmers. Once Silas Armstrong, on whose load of hay Trouble had gone to sleep, came to buy groceries, and he had a pleasant chat with the Curlytops.
It was about a week after Ted’s adventure in the hollow log that something else happened to him. Some of the lumbermen had been sent to a distant part of the woods to build a chute, or slide, for the logs to shoot down into the river. Then a slight accident occurred to the sawmill machinery and the foreman of it wanted all the help he could get to mend the trouble.
“I wish Jake and Sam were here,” said the foreman, as he and all the other men worked hard to mend the broken machinery. “But they’re away over by the new chute.”
“I’ll go after them and tell them to come here,” offered Ted.