boy!" he called. "Have you any picture books for these Curlytops of
mine?"

"Yes, I have some nice ones," answered the boy, and with a smile on
his face he went into the baggage car, where he kept his papers,
candy and other things, and soon came back with a gaily colored book,
at the sight of which Ted and Jan uttered sighs of delight.

"Dat awful p'etty!" murmured Trouble, and indeed the book did have
nice pictures in it.

Mr. Martin paid for it, and then Ted and Jan enjoyed very much
looking at it, with Trouble in the seat between them. He insisted on
seeing each picture twice, the page being no sooner turned over than
he wanted it turned back again.

But at last even he was satisfied, and then Ted and Jan went back to
their first game of looking out of the window for Indians or other
sights that might interest them.

Trouble slipped out of his seat between his brother and sister and
went to a vacant window himself. For a time he had good fun playing
with the window catch, and Mrs. Martin let him do this, having made
sure, at first, that he could not open the sash. Then they all forgot
Trouble for a while and he played by himself, all alone in one of the
seats.

A little later, when Teddy and Janet were tired of looking for the
Indians which they never saw, they were talking about the good times
they had had with Nicknack, and wondering if Uncle Frank would have a