The other boys and girls laughed, and at first Ted did not know why. But, after a bit, when he saw the teacher smiling also, he remembered what he had done. Then he spelled foot correctly.
"Theodore was thinking more of what to put on his foot, than about the word I asked him to spell," said the teacher.
Mr. Martin's store was not far from the school, and Ted and Jan hurried there when their lessons were over.
"Where you goin'?" asked Tom Taylor, as he came running out of the school yard. "Come on, Curlytop, and let's make another snow man."
"I will after I get my new rubber boots," promised Ted. "You can start making it in our yard if you want to. But don't let Trouble make any more little snow men. He put one in my sister's bed last night."
"He did?" laughed Tom. "Say, he's queer all right!"
"Well, Curlytops, did you come to buy out the store?" asked Mr. Martin with a laugh as he saw his two children come in and walk back toward the end, where he had his office.
"We want rubber boots," said Ted.
"And I want big high ones, just like those he's going to have," begged Jan, pointing to her brother.
"We'll get them just alike and then you won't have any trouble," laughed her father. "Only, of course, Ted's will have to be a little larger in the feet than yours, Jan."