He tore open one end of the paper wrapping, disclosing the red, shining wooden box.
“No need to take off all the paper,” he said. “It is well packed and I’ll leave it so and put it in the car. We’ll travel on again to-morrow, Curlytops!”
Ted and Janet were glad of this, though they liked it at the farm. But children are always glad of a change, I suppose.
So Mr. Martin put the wrapped box in his car. If he had only taken off all the paper and had looked more closely inside, there would have been a different ending to this story.
CHAPTER XVI
ON AGAIN
When Mrs. Martin called Janet the next morning, to tell the Curlytop girl to get up, dress and have breakfast, ready to start touring again, Janet, with her eyes still closed, began to call:
“Let me out! Let me out! Oh, don’t let the bears come in!”
This awakened Trouble, and he wanted to know what the matter was.
“I guess Janet thinks she is back in the box trap again,” said Mrs. Martin, with a smile. “Wake up, my dear! Wake up,” she went on, giving her daughter a gentle shake. “You’re all right, Janet.”
“Oh! Oh!” gasped the little girl, as she opened her eyes. She was plainly surprised to find herself safe in bed in the room with her mother and Trouble. “I—I thought I was in the box trap and a bear was trying to come in with me,” she said.