And, though neither Ted nor Jan knew it, there was someone in their snow bungalow.
Up in the playroom the Curlytops and Trouble had fun with Aunt Jo. She told them stories and made up little games for them, while outside the storm raged and the snow came down faster than ever.
"Come on!" cried Teddy after waiting a bit, "let's play that guessing game some more."
"Oh, let's!" agreed Jan. "It's lots of fun!"
This was a game in which one of them would think of something in the attic—the old spinning wheel, the steamboat chair or maybe a string of sleigh bells. Then the one who had the turn of thinking would tell the others the first letter of the name of the thing thought of, and perhaps something about it. The others had to guess what it was, and whoever guessed first was next in turn to think of something.
Teddy, Jan and Aunt Jo played this game for a while, but it was not much fun for Trouble. He was too little to know how to spell the things he thought of, though he could name almost everything in the attic, even if he called some by nicknames he made up himself.
"Let's play something that will be fun for Trouble," said Aunt Jo after a while.
"What?" asked Teddy.
"How would hide the bean bag be?" asked Aunt Jo.
"We haven't any bean bag," replied Teddy. "We had one, but Trouble threw it in the hedge and we can't find it."