"Well, then I'll get grandpa. Maybe this is the cave where the tramps
live. Come and look where I am. You won't fall in."
"How did you find it?" asked Janet, as she walked toward the hole,
down in which Teddy was standing. It was a little way from the path
the two Curlytops had walked along through the woods--the path leading
from the spring.
"I just fell in it, I told you," Ted answered. "I was walking along,
and, all at once, I slipped down through the dried leaves. First I
thought I was going down in a big hole, but it isn't over my head and
a lot of leaves went down with me, so I didn't get jounced hardly at
all."
Jan went to the edge and looked down in the hole. It seemed to be a
large one in between two big rocks, and Ted showed her where the hole
slanted downward and went farther underground. It was dark there, and
Jan made up her mind she would never go into it, even if Ted did.
"You'd better come up," she said at last. "Maybe mother wouldn't like
it. Besides, there might be snakes down in there."
"Oh! I didn't think about them!" exclaimed Ted, and he tried to
scramble up, but it was not so easy as he had hoped. He was a little
excited, too, since Janet had spoken of snakes. Teddy did not like
them, and they might be in among the leaves that had fallen down into
the hole with him.
"Can't you get up?" Jan asked, when her brother had slipped back two
or three times.
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