"But where do you live?"
"At Uncle Frank's ranch," Janet answered.
"You mean Mr. Frank Barton, of the Circle O?" the doctor inquired.
"Yes, only we call it the Ring Rosy Ranch now, and so does he,"
explained Teddy.
"The Ring Rosy Ranch, is it? Well, I don't know but what that is a
good name for it. Now tell me about yourselves and this pony."
This Teddy and Janet did by turns, relating how they had come out
West from Cresco, and what good times they were having. They even
told about having gone to Cherry Farm, about camping with Grandpa
Martin and about being snowed in.
"Well, you have had some nice adventures!" exclaimed Doctor Bond.
"Now about this sick--"
"Is some one ill?" enquired Mrs. Bond, coming in from the chicken
yard just then, in time to hear her husband's last words, "Who is it?"
On the Western prairies when one neighbor hears of another's illness
he or she wants to help in every way there is. So Mrs. Bond, hearing
that some one was ill, wanted to do her share.
"It's a pony," her husband said with a smile.
"A pony!" she exclaimed.
"Yes, these Curlytop children found one in the cave among the rocks.
It's on Circle O Ranch--I should say Ring Rosy," and the doctor gave
Uncle Frank's place the new name. "These are Mr. Barton's nephew's
children," he went on, for Ted and Janet had told the doctor that it
was their father's uncle, and not theirs, at whose home they were
visiting.
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