"I wanted to get de pail full for mamma."
"But I filled the pail, Trouble. You oughtn't to have touched it,"
said Teddy. He went to the spring and looked down in it. The pail was
at the bottom of the little pool.
"It's a good thing that tramp got him out," remarked Janet. "He must
be a nice man, even if his clothes are ragged."
"I guess so, too," agreed Ted. "But he said we must take Trouble home.
I guess we'd better."
"Yes," assented Jan. "But he isn't hurt."
"He wasn't in very long," Ted said. "The man got him out awful quick--
quicker than we could. You lead him home, Jan, and I'll get the pail
out of the spring. It's sunk like a ship."
"How're you going to get it?"
"With a stick, I guess. You mustn't lean over the spring any more,
Trouble."
"No," promised Baby William.
But the Curlytops could not be sure he would keep his promise. He
might for a time, while he remembered what had happened to him.
With a crooked stick Teddy managed to fish up the pail after two or
three trials. Then, filling it with water from the spring, he carried
it back to camp, while Jan led the wet and dripping Trouble.
"Oh, my goodness! What's happened now?" asked Nora, as she saw the
three children coming into camp. "Did you go in swimming with all your
clothes on, Trouble??
"No. I failed into de spwing, I did!"
"And the tramp got him out!" added Jan.
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