THE CURLYTOPS AND THEIR PETS

HOWARD R. GARIS

 

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Excerpt :

CHAPTER I . UNCLE TOBY’S LETTER

“What you going to put on your ship, Ted?”

“Oh, swords and guns and gunpowder and soldiers. What you going to load on your ship, Jan?”

“Oranges and lemons and pineapples,” answered the little girl, who was playing with her brother at sailing boats in the brook that ran back of the house. “And maybe I’ll have gold and diamonds and chocolate cake on my ship, Teddy,” went on Janet Martin.

“If you do I’ll be a pirate and sink your ship! Oh, Jan, let’s play that! I’ll be a pirate!”

Teddy Martin jumped up so suddenly from the bank of the brook, where he was loading his ship with what he called “swords, guns and gunpowder,” that he tipped the vessel over and the whole cargo was spilled into the water.

“Oh, look what you did!” cried Janet. “Your gunpowder will be all wet!”

“I’m not ready to play the pirate game yet,” explained Teddy. “Anyhow, I can get more powder.”

This would be easy enough, it seemed, as the children were only pretending that stones, pebbles and bits of sticks were the cargoes of their toy ships, and, as Teddy had said, he could easily get more stones. The brook was filled with them.

“Where are you going?” Janet called after her brother, as she saw him hurrying toward the house, which was out of sight behind the trees and bushes that grew on the edge of the brook.

“I’m going to get a black flag so I can be a pirate and sink your ship with gold, diamonds and chocolate cakes on!” answered Teddy over his shoulder as he ran on.

“I—I don’t guess I want you to be a pirate,” said Janet slowly, as she looked at her ship, on which the pebbles, stones and bits of wood were neatly arranged in piles. “I’m not going to play that game! I don’t want you to be a pirate, Ted! It’s too scary!”