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coffee," said Mrs. Martin. "Nora will pour it out for you. No, Trouble! You mustn't do that!" she cried, as she saw Baby William crumbling a slice of bread into the pitcher of milk. "What's he doing?" asked Aunt Jo. "Goin' make a cake," the little fellow answered. "Make cake an' have p'ay party." "Well, you can have a play party with something else," laughed his mother. "We can't let you waste milk that way when we can't tell when we'll get more if daddy can't get out to the barn to milk the cow." She took the slice of bread away from William and set him down from the table to which he had climbed up in a chair. "'Member the time he made a cake when we were camping with grandpa on Star Island?" asked Janet of Ted. "I guess I do!" he laughed. "The dough was all over everything!" "Well, let's try it again now," said Uncle Frank to Daddy Martin, when they had had some hot coffee. "We've got to get out to the barn, somehow." "Yes," agreed the father of the Curlytops. "I don't want the horse and cow to be hungry or thirsty. I hope the water in the barn isn't frozen. If it is we'll have to carry some from the house." "And that might freeze on the way out," said Uncle Frank. "You could take a pail of hot water and that wouldn't freeze," Teddy remarked. "Our horse or cow couldn't drink hot water," objected Janet. "Well, they could wait for it to cool just as we do for our hot milk sometimes." "Yes, they could do that," agreed Janet. "Oh, I wish we could go out in our bungalow!" "Don't dare try it!" cried Daddy Martin. "If you children went out in the snow you might not get back until your ears and fingers were frost-bitten, to say the least." "What does frost-bitten mean?" Teddy asked. "Well, it means almost frozen," explained his mother. "Now you and Janet can take Trouble up to the playroom and have a good time, while I help Nora with the work." "We want to see daddy and Uncle Frank dig in the snow out to the barn," said Teddy. "Well, you may watch them a little while, and then take care of Baby William." "You can't see very much," said Uncle Prank, "The snow is still coming down hard and it blows so we can hardly see one another. So you won't see much of us from the windows." "Well, maybe we can see a little," remarked Janet, and she and Teddy, with Trouble between them, perched on chairs with their faces close against the snow covered glass. Of course the snow was on the outsi
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