"
"Is your doll a Red Cross nurse?" asked Hal. "If she is, where's her
cap and the red cross on her arm?"
"Oh, she just started to be a nurse a little while ago," Jan
explained. "I haven't had time to make the red cross yet. But I will.
Anyhow, let's go down by the river."
"All right, we will," agreed Ted. "We'll see if we can get some sticks
off the willow trees and make whistles," he added to Hal.
"You can make better whistles in the spring, when the bark is softer,
than you can now," said the lame boy, as the Curlytops often called
him, though Hal was nearly cured.
"Well, _maybe_ we can make some now," suggested Ted, and a little
later the two boys were seated in the shade under the willow trees
that grew on the bank of a small river which flowed into Clover Lake,
not far from Cherry Farm. Nicknack, tied to a tree, nibbled the sweet,
green grass, and Jan made a wreath of buttercups for her doll.
After they had made some whistles, which did give out a little tooting
sound, Ted and Hal found something else to do, and Jan saw, coming
along the road, a girl named Mary Seaton with whom she often played.
Jan called Mary to join her, and the two little girls had a good time
together while Ted and Hal threw stones at some wooden boats they made
and floated down the stream.
"Oh, Ted, we must go home!" suddenly cried Jan.
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