"Trouble? No, he isn't here!"

"He isn't!" exclaimed his mother. "Where in the world can he be?
Nora says she saw him going out to the barn a little while ago.
Please find him!"

"Huh!" exclaimed Ted. "Trouble is gone and so is Nicknack! I s'pose
they've gone together!"

"Well have to look," said Janet.




CHAPTER III

OFF FOR THE WEST


The Curlytops hurried toward the house, leaving open the empty
little stable in which Nicknack was usually kept. They found their
father and their mother looking around in the yard, Mrs. Martin had a
worried air.

"Couldn't you find him?" asked Daddy Martin.

"We didn't look--very much," answered Teddy. "Nicknack is gone, and--"

"Nicknack gone!" cried Mrs. Martin. "I wonder if that little tyke of