The Curlytops at Silver Lake

t wear a blue uniform with brass buttons, and he did not walk up and down the street swinging a club. He was just a farmer, and when he was ca

s. Ransom hurrying away, "I'd better g

see Constable Juke arrest the burgl

oing home!"

for?" aske

ed our house, and maybe my mother would want me to help catch 'em-or, anyhow, go after th

which were only partly dry and w

et dryer. Anyhow, our house wasn't robbed. I was there all night, and no burglars c

ght for

hat took the things from Miss Ransom's

's a nice looking man. Anyhow, Miss Ransom saw him on our la

to see if we had any robbers. If we had, I'll tell you abou

om where they stood, Mrs. Ransom going into the yard, and after they had watched a little

table Juke n

him all about the r

And if there've been any robbers at our h

do that!"

?" asked

been robbed, you come and tell me and we'll hunt the burglars. We won

Tom, his eyes opening wide. "

Ted. "You hurry back now,

d down in the sun, waiting for the mud to dry, so it could

to tell mother I fell in. Besides, she can see I did. I might as well go home now and see if we had any burglars. I don't

ied home. Out in front of the house he saw an

hought the little boy. But, as he entered the house, he heard the

o very nicely now," Ted

ame out of the room where the

d curls of the little fellow. "Well, where have you been, in swimming?" the do

," said Teddy. "I fe

!" cried his mother. "Wha

, but he hurried over the accident in the wat

om's store was robbed and she's gone after Constable Juke, and maybe Tom Taylor's house is robbed, too, and the burglars

er of reasons for this. One was that he wa

d on the tip of his tongue to say next. Another reason for stopping so quickly was that his mother held up her hand, just as a policeman at a b

his mother slowly, "what does a

Ransom's store was robbed, and the burglar

I heard something about it as I was coming here just now, but I didn't pay much atte

wered the Curlytop lad. "He's

lars here, I'm glad to say. Now, Teddy, you go and get washed and put o

as soon as he could he would see Tom and find ou

ce in the town that had been entered. Much to the disappointment of Ted and Tom, no burglars had been at the Taylor ho

nd that some had been taken. Then she looked around her house and shop and

r box my brother, who used to be a sailor, brought me from a far-off land. The box was made in Japan, and if

n the box?" ask

r and some other things I wanted very

?" asked Te

wrecked. He gave me that box just before he went away for the last time, and his picture was in it. That's why I thought so much of it, and why I feel so sorry that the burglars took it. They c

and Constable Juke, who came over to look at the store, said he guessed the robbers (or robber, if there w

e promised, "and if I see him around I'll arre

x," begged the storekeeper. "I wa

constable went home, and Ted, Janet,

?" asked Daddy Marti

her Martin. "Dr. Whitney sa

and see him?

so," answere

re the "tramp," as the children often called him, was sitting up in an easy ch

lid, who was fast getting bett

e's Unc

ated his father.

of Uncle Ben in our photograph album,

sely at the man, who h

hink whom you did look like," she said to