Janet and Teddy were worried about Nicknack.
"Please dig hard for him!" begged Janet, as the two men started out with their shovels after dinner.
"We will," they promised.
Just as they were going out to the kitchen, to get their shovels which they had left in the back entry, there came a pounding in that very place as though some one were stamping snow off his boots.
"What's that?" asked Uncle Frank.
"Someone coming to see us—one of the neighbors perhaps," remarked Mr. Martin. "This is the first any of them have broken out after having been snowed in."
Once more the pounding noise sounded.
"Come in!" cried Uncle Frank, as he started toward the door.
"Baa-a-a-a!" came the answer.
"Nicknack!" cried Teddy and Janet joyously.