. For he was
happy now, with the Curlytops.

"Can he always live with us?" asked Janet.

"I like him," added Ted.

"I'm glad you do," said their father. "But I think it will be best to
send him back to the Home for a while, as a doctor told me he could be
cured of his lameness if he stayed about a year. So we'll send Arthur
back and in the summer we can go to see him when we visit at Cherry
Farm."

Arthur said he would be glad to go back to the Home, for he had many
friends there and liked it, though he liked the Curlytops, too. The man
who was his guardian tried to make trouble and keep the boy from going
back to be cured, but Mr. Martin and Uncle Frank soon had matters
straightened out, and another guardian was put in charge of Arthur.

When the big storm was over the Curlytops had more fun on their skates
and sleds. Then they got ready for Christmas. Arthur stayed with them
until after the holidays. Then, much better than when he ran away and
went wandering about in the cold, he was sent back to the Home, where, a
year later, he was cured so he did not limp any more.

"And if it hadn't been that Nicknack found him in the bungalow and
brought the note to us through the snow, we might not have known until
too late that Arthur was there," said Mother Martin.

"Nicknack is a good goat!" exclaimed Teddy. "We'll always take him with
us."

"Are you going to bring him out to the ranch when you come to see me?"
asked Uncle Frank.

"Are we going out to your ranch?" asked Janet.

"Yes. I have spoken to your father about it, and he says you may come.
But not until winter is over. It is no fun out there when it is cold."

What the children did when they went out to Montana you may learn by
reading the next book of this series to be called: "The Curly tops at
Uncle Frank's Ranch; or, Little Folks on Ponyback."

"Well, we had lots of fun being snowed in, didn't we?" asked Janet of
her brother, after New Year's Day, when Arthur had said good-bye and
gone back to the Home.

"Oh, we had an awful good time!" cried Teddy. "The best ever!"

Then Teddy and Janet went skating and had fun, with plenty more in
prospect when they should go out West to Uncle Frank's ranch.

THE END

THE CURLYTOPS SERIES

By HOWARD R. GARIS

_12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Jacket in full colors Price per volume, 50
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[Illustration.]

1. THE CURLYTOPS AT CHERRY FARM
_or Vacation