Martin made her two Curlytops look
better by the use of their combs.
After breakfast the children ran to hitch Nicknack to the wagon.
Grandpa Martin was going back in the rowboat to the mainland to get a
few things that had been forgotten, and also another bag of salt.
"And I'll hide it away from Trouble," said Nora with a laugh. "We
don't want any more salty oceans around here."
"Let's drive away before Trouble sees us," proposed Jan to her
brother. "He'll want to come for a ride and we can't go very far if he
comes along."
"All right. Stoop down and walk behind the bushes. Then he can't see
us."
Jan and Ted managed to get away unseen, and were soon hitching their
goat to the wagon. Trouble finished his breakfast and called to them,
wanting to go with them wherever they went. But his mother knew the
two Curlytops did not want Trouble with them every time, so Baby
William had to play by himself about camp, while the two older
children drove off on a path that led the long way of the island.
"Maybe we'll have an adventure," suggested Jan, as she sat in the cart
driving the goat, for she and her brother took turns at this fun.
"Maybe we'll see some of the tramps," he added.
"I don't want to," said Jan.
"Well, maybe we'll see a bear."
"I don't want that, either. I wish you wouldn't say such things,
Teddy.
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