“Oh, it’s too early to talk about that now,” laughed Mr. Martin. “But tell me what you Curlytops did all day. I suppose you studied your lessons, didn’t you?”
“Lessons? On Saturday!” cried Janet, not seeing the funny twinkle in her father’s eyes.
“He’s only joking!” declared Ted, and this was true. Mr. Martin liked to tease his children a little.
“Well, what were you doing?” he asked. “It looks as though Trouble had been digging in the garden,” he added.
“I was diggin’ worms for to go fishin’ with,” said the little boy.
“And he fell down when Skyrocket tried to run between his legs,” added Teddy.
“That was when we heard the auto crash and all ran out to see what it was,” explained Janet. “Before that we were playing house, and Trouble was going to be a miner, and Ted was a conductor on an airship up in a tree, and I was—Oh, I was——”
Janet suddenly stopped speaking, clapped her hand over her mouth and started to run around to the back porch.
“I forgot all about it!” she cried.
“What is it?” asked Mr. Martin, for he could tell by Janet’s face that it was something important. “What did she forget about?” asked Mr. Martin of Ted and Trouble.