"
"I knew we were going," said Teddy as he, too, laughed and got up.
"Whoa there, Nicknack!" he shouted, for the goat was still going on,
dragging the overturned wagon after him.
But Nicknack did not stop until he reached a little bush, on which
were some green leaves that he seemed to like very much, for he began
to chew them.
"That's what he wanted all the while," said Teddy.
"Well, let him eat all he wants, and then he won't be hungry any more
and he'll pull us where we want to go," advised Hal.
They did this, after setting the cart up on its wheels. When Nicknack
turned away from the bush, and looked at the two waiting boys, Ted
said:
"Well, I guess we can go on now."
"Yes," added Hal, "and I hope we'll find those blue rocks. But I don't
believe we're ever going to."
At last, however, when it was getting rather late in the afternoon and
Ted had said it was time to go back, Hal, who was driving the goat
through a part of the woods they never before had visited, pointed to
a big stone buried in the side of a hill and cried:
"Look! Isn't that rock blue, Ted?"
"It does look kind of blue, yes."
"Then it's just what we're looking for. See, there's lots of little
blue rocks, too. Let's take some back to camp. Maybe they're the same
kind Trouble had, and there may be gold in 'em! Come on."
They piled the rocks, which were certainly somewhat blue in color,
into the wagon, and started back with them.
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