"Nicknack, our goat," answered Teddy.

"What! Is he lost?" exclaimed Bob in some dismay, for he was
counting on having much fun with the goat when the Curlytops went
West.

"Nicknack--" began Ted.

"Have you seen Trouble?" broke in Janet.

"Is he lost, too?" Bob inquired. "Say, I guess--"

"Our goat and little boy seem to have gone off together," explained
Mr. Martin to Mrs. Newton who came out on the porch just then. "We'd
been talking before Trouble about bringing Nicknack over here, and
now that both are missing we thought maybe Baby William had brought
the goat over himself."

"Why, no, he isn't here," said Mrs. Newton slowly. "You didn't see
anything of Trouble and the goat, did you?" she asked her son.

"No. I've been here making the kite all morning, and I'd have seen
Nicknack all right, and Trouble, too, if they had come here."

"Well, that's funny!" exclaimed Mr. Martin. "I wonder where he can
have gone?"

"Maybe Nicknack ran away with him," suggested Bob.

"Oh, don't say such things!" exclaimed his mother.