plenty of room in his stable for a goat Bob is delighted to have him."

"But hell give him back to us when we come home, won't he?" asked
Janet.

"Oh, yes, of course! You won't lose your goat," said her father with
a laugh.

But when they went out to the stable to harness Nicknack to the
wagon, Ted and Janet rubbed their eyes and looked again.

"Why, Nicknack is gone!" exclaimed Ted.

"He is," agreed his sister. "Maybe Bob came and got him."

"No, he wouldn't do that without telling us," went on Ted. "I wonder
where that goat is?"

He looked around the stable yard and in the barn. No Nicknack was in
sight.

When the Curlytops were searching they heard their mother calling to
them from the house, where their father was waiting for them to come
up with Nicknack. He was going over to Mr. Newton's with them.

"Ho, Ted! Janet! Where are you?" called Mrs. Martin.

"Out here, Mother!" Teddy answered.

"Is Trouble there with you?"