"Yes, I guess I'll have to, since you couldn't make one for yourself,"
laughed Nora. "Never mind, you'll be a man when you grow up and you
won't have to mess around a kitchen. Here you are!" and she caught him
up, all doughy as he was, and carried him to the big tent where his
mother soon had him washed and in clean clothes.
Then Nora cleaned up the kitchen and made some real cakes and cookies
which Ted and Jan, as well as Trouble, ate a little later. The
Curlytops laughed when told of Trouble's attempt to make a cake, and
for a long time after that whenever they were telling any of their
friends about the queer things their baby brother did, they always
told first about the cake he made in his hat one day.
"Oh, Ted, I know what let's do!" cried Janet one day, about a week
after Trouble had played with the flour and water.
"What?" asked her brother. "Go fishing?"
"No, I don't like fishing. Anyhow we went fishing once, and I don't
like to see the worms wiggle. Let's make a little play tent for
ourselves in the woods."
"We haven't any cloth."
"We can make one of leaves and branches, just like the bower we made
for Nicknack before grandpa put up the little board barn for him."
"Yes, we can do that," agreed Ted. "It'll be fun. Come on."
A little later the two Curlytops were cutting down branches from low
trees, sticking the ends into the soft ground, and tying the leafy
tops together with string.
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