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?"
"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
ours has gotten into trouble with him."
"Nicknack wouldn't make any trouble," declared Jan. "He's such a
nice goat--"
"Yes, I know!" said Mrs. Martin quickly. "But it looks very much as
though Trouble and Nicknack had gone off together. Is the goat's
harness in the stable?"
"We didn't look," answered Teddy.
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