The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch; Or, Little Folks on Ponyback

this isn'

want to pla

and hats while across his nose was a pair of spectacles much too large for him.

ck doll bread pills. I want to do something else," and Teddy began takin

tting up from the chair so quickly that she forgot about her doll,

Baby William tumbled and hurt himself. "Oh, are you hurt?" and Janet cla

d not ask as a real doctor might inquire

all about her being in my lap. Oh, aren't you going to play any more, Ted?" she ask

o something else

tore window down the street, making bandages for the soldiers. You could be a soldier, Ted, and I could be t

r a few seconds. He seemed to lik

his sister, "I cou

y n

got a gun and ther

off the bed like we do lots of ti

e knew that he and Janet could make a t

for a gun?" Janet asked. "I

Anyhow I haven't a uniform, and a soldier can't go to war wit

ier would not be much of one without a gun or a uniform, even

play with her and she knew she must do something to make him. For a while he had been content to play that he was Dr. Thompson, come to give medici

is he tried to, but his head was so covered with tightly twisted

n't curl so much! It's too long. I'm goi

," sighed Janet. "Mine's wors

it always curls mo

appreciate it, even though many of their friends, and some persons who saw them for t

suddenly cried Janet, just ha

" asked h

aken away. Then you can be hurt and I'll be the Red Cross nurse and take care of you in the tent. I'

u a piece of cake, t

Janet. "I'll g

. "I guess, if I've got to be sick, I'd

tchen. In a little while she came back with a plate on which were two slices o

e cake," Janet said. "You can pretend th

ck on cake? Anyhow they don't have cake in th

doll away," she went on, as she finished her piece of cake, "and we

n she had wound a white cloth around her head, a red cr

rs, and under this shelter Teddy crawled. He stretched out on a b

as she looked in a glass to see if he

? What

in the war, or else you

dn't make me sick. You've got to give me a

fun like that all the while. You've got to groan and

you've got to give me a lot of choc

ive 'em to you all

wo doses then. Ho

t. I'm going to t

that he hit the top of the sheet-tent wit

cried Janet. "Now you've g

ather sorry for what he had done. "B

can

d of a nurse taking the me

ve me some chocolate candy if you h

uld, Jan. I'

t like chocolate candy, an

But you wanted me to play this game of bein' a sick s

ow you lie down and groan and I'll hear you out

over him again, Teddy lay back on th

ng!" exclaimed the little girl i

ntil Janet stopped him by dropping two or t

st choked me!" spluttered Ted, as

or two herself. "Now you lie down and go to sleep, 'c

ate pills," cautioned Ted. "I ne

lieve give them so

hocolate pills were given him. But when Janet had only a few left and Teddy was about

you

"You mustn't drop your 'g' letter

e real name was William Martin, but who was more often

left. Can I give it to

Anyhow, I know something else

till raining hard and she wanted her

Frank told us about on his ranch. We'll make a place with chairs where the

d Janet. "It'

ome chairs and I'll be a bucking bronco. That's a horse that

ide!" said B

de after I get tired of bucking

round on his hands and knees, pretending to be a wild Western pony. Janet tried to

or it was hard work crawling around as he did

wide!" plea

" offered Teddy, and his baby b

o fast with him,

s with Nicknack," declared Baby William

ive you a fast rid

is back. The baby pretended to drive his "horse" b

I wants a big wide,

d then forgetting, perhaps, that he had his baby brother

op!" begge

t pony," explained Ted,

d of the stairs. Then, just how no one could say, Trouble gave a yell, toppled off Teddy's