She,
too, dropped the cookie she had just taken from the bag, and turned
slowly around to see at what Teddy was pointing.
She was just in time to see something furry and reddish-brown in color
dart into the hollow log, which was open at both ends. Then Jan gave a
scream.
"Oh!" exclaimed Ted, who was as much frightened by Janet's shrill
voice as he was at what he had seen. "Oh, Jan! Don't!"
"I--I couldn't help it," she answered. "I told you I'd scream if I saw
a bear, and I _did_ see one. It is a bear, isn't it, Teddy?"
"It is," he answered. "I saw it first. It's my bear!"
"You can have it--every bit of it," said Jan, quickly getting up from
the mossy rock on which she had been sitting. "I don't want any of it,
not even the stubby tail. I like to own half of Nicknack with you, but
I don't want half a bear."
"Then I'll take all of it--it's my bear," went on Ted. "Where're you
going, Jan?" he asked, as he saw his sister hurrying away.
"I'm going home. I don't like it here. I'm going to make Nicknack run
home with me."
Teddy got up, too. He did not stop to pick up the cookie he had
dropped.
"I--I guess I'll go with you, Jan," he said. "I guess my bear will
stay in the log until I come back."
"Are you coming back?" asked Janet, as with trembling fingers she
unfastened Nicknack's strap from around the stump to which he had been
tied.
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