"There! I told you so!" cried Janet.
"Well, she's rubber, and you can pretend she has on a bathing suit an'
has gone in swimming!" declared Ted.
"But maybe a fish'll bite a hole in her and then she can't whistle
through the hole in her back!" wailed Jan, ready to cry.
"There's no fish here, only baby ones; and they can't bite," Ted
answered. "But I'll get her for you, Jan."
He waded out, set his ship upright again, and brought his sister's
doll to shore. Nancy--which was the doll's name--did not seem to have
been hurt by falling into the lake. Her painted smile was the same as
ever.
"I guess I'll dress her now so she won't get cold after her bath,"
said Jan, who sometimes acted as though her dolls were really alive.
She liked her playthings very much indeed.
While his sister went back to the tent with her doll Ted sailed his
boat. Then Trouble came down to the edge of the little cove, and began
to take off his shoes and stockings to go wading as Ted was doing. Ted
was not sure whether or not his mother wanted Baby William to do this,
so he decided to run up to the camp to ask.
"Don't go in the water until I come back, Trouble," Ted ordered his
little brother.
But the sight of the cool, sparkling water was too much for Baby
William.
Off came his shoes and stockings without waiting for Ted to come back
to say whether or not Mother Martin would let him go splashing in the
water.
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