After trying two or three times, each time finding something wrong,
Teddy said:
"Oh, I don't guess I can make a bow, either. Let's play something
else."
"What'll we play?" asked Janet.
Teddy thought for a few moments. Playing out at Uncle Frank's ranch
was different from playing at home. In some ways it was not so easy,
for at home if the Curly-tops could not think up any way to have fun
by themselves, they could run down the street and find some other
boys and girls. But here there were no streets, and no other boys or
girls unless Teddy and Janet went a long way to look for them, and
they could not do that.
"I know what we can do," said Teddy, after a while. "We can get some
blankets and cookies and play cowboy."
"How can you play cowboy with cookies and blankets?"
"I'll show you," Teddy answered, as he went into the house to get
the things he wanted. He soon came out with some old quilts and the
cookies, which were in a paper bag.
"Now," went on Janet's brother, "We'll go off on the prairie and
make believe it's night and we have to stay out like the cowboys when
they went after Uncle Frank's horses."
"Oh, that'll be fun!" cried Janet, and then she and Ted rolled
themselves up in the old quilts and pretended to go to sleep on the
soft grass of the prairie, making believe it was night, though of
course it was not, for the sun was shining.
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