Jan and Ted thought it quite wonderful. For, though they had
traveled in a sleeping-car before, and had seen the porter pull out
the seats, let down the shelf overhead and take out the blankets and
pillows to make the bed, still they never tired of watching.

There were many other things to interest the Curlytops and Trouble
on this journey to Uncle Frank's ranch. Of course there was always
something to see when they looked out of the windows of the cars. At
times the train would pass through cities, stopping at the stations
to let passengers get off and on. But it was not the cities that
interested the children most. They liked best to see the fields and
woods through which they passed.

In some of the fields were horses, cows or sheep, and while the
children did not see any such animals in the woods, except perhaps
where the wood was a clump of trees near a farm, they always hoped
they might.

Very often, when the train would rattle along through big fields,
and then suddenly plunge into a forest, Jan would call:

"Maybe we'll see one now, Ted!"

"Oh, maybe so!" he would exclaim.

Then the two Curlytops would flatten their noses against the window
and peer out.

"What are you looking for?" asked Mother Martin, the first time she
saw the children do this.