Martin. "You wasted a whole bag of salt, and
now grandpa hasn't any for his potatoes!"
CHAPTER VI
TED AND THE BEAR
Baby Williams looked a little bit frightened and ashamed as his mother
spoke to him in that way. He loved his grandfather, and of course he
would not have done anything to make him feel bad if he had thought.
But Trouble was a very little fellow, though his father often said he
could get into as many kinds of mischief as could the larger
Curlytops.
"Oh dear! This is too bad!" went on Mrs. Martin. "Why did you do it,
Trouble! What made you empty the bag of salt into the lake?"
"Want to make ocean wif salt water," was the answer.
"I suppose it's my fault, for telling him so much about the big sea
and its salt water," said Trouble's mother. "He liked to hear me talk
about the ocean, and I guess he must have been thinking about it more
than I had any idea of.
"He must have tasted the water of the lake, and found it wasn't salty,
and then he thought that, to make an ocean and big waves out of a
lake, all he had to do was to put in the salt. I'm sorry, Father."
"Oh, that's all right," laughed Grandpa Martin. "I guess I can get
along without any more salt."
"Trouble sorry, too," said the little fellow, when he understood that
he had done something wrong. "Me get salt water for you," and he
started toward the place where he had emptied the bag into the water,
carrying a spoon from the table.
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