It'll be a lot of fun!"
"Will mother let us?" asked Jan.
"Oh, I guess so," answered Teddy.
But he did not go to ask to find out. He found a hammer where grandpa
had been using it to knock apart the crates and boxes, and, with the
help of Jan, Teddy was soon making his raft. There were plenty of
nails which had come out of the boxes and crates. Some of them were
rather crooked, but when Ted tried to hammer them straight he pounded
his fingers.
"That hurts," he said. "I guess crooked nails are as good as straight
ones. Anyhow this raft is going to be crooked."
And it was very crooked and "wobboly," as Janet called it, when Teddy
had shoved it into the water and, taking off his shoes and stockings,
got on it.
"Come on, Jan!" he cried, "I'm going to have a ride."
"No, it's too tippy," Janet answered.
"Oh, it can't tip over," said Teddy. "That's what a raft is for--not
to tip over. Maybe you can slide off, but it can't tip over. Come on!"
So Janet took off her shoes and stockings.
Now of course she ought not to have done that, nor ought Teddy to have
got on the raft without asking his mother or his grandfather. But then
the Curlytops were no different from other children.
So on the raft got Teddy and Janet, and for a time they had lots of
fun pushing it around a shallow little cove, not far from the shore of
Star Island.
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