d. He was playing with
it last. Then Snuff must have come out, and when he saw the ball he
remembered that he knew how to do a trick on it. And he got up and did it
without anyone telling him."

"Maybe he won't do it any more," suggested Janet.

"We can soon see," Teddy said. "Here, Snuff!" he called to the big,
friendly cat. "Come over here," and Teddy whistled as he did for
Turnover. Snuff came as he was called, almost as a dog might do, and
Turnover, also hearing the whistle by which Teddy summoned him to meals,
came running around the corner of the barn.

"No, we haven't anything for you to eat now, pussies," said Ted, with a
laugh. "But I'll give you something in a little while if Snuff does the
football trick again."

After petting the two cats, and scratching them under their ears, which
they seemed to like very much. Teddy held Snuff in his arms, and told
Janet to take up the football.

"We'll put it down in front of Snuff and see if he gets up on it,"
suggested Teddy. And when this was done the big cat from Uncle Toby's
jumped out of Ted's arms, and leaped on top of the football, rolling it
over and over just like a clown in a circus.

"Oh, it is a trick--a real trick!" cried Janet. "Wouldn't it be great if
we could dress Snuff up in a little suit like a clown?"

"Maybe we can," said Teddy. "But it will be hard, as cats don't like to
have fixin's on 'em as much as dogs do. I wonder who taught Snuff that
trick? I guess it must have been Uncle Toby."

And, some time afterward, the Curlytops learned that it was their
father's queer, animal-loving uncle who had taught Snuff to roll around
on a football.

"I'm terrible glad Uncle Toby left us his collection, aren't you?" asked
Janet of her brother, when Snuff had grown tired of doing his trick, and
both cats were being fed.

"Yes," agreed Teddy, "I am. First I thought it might be a collection of
stamps or coins. But I'm glad it was pets."

The Curlytops were going to have a great deal of fun with their pets,
they were sure of that.

"If we only had Tip back," sighed Janet, as she and Teddy sat watching
the cats eat, talking, meanwhile, about the circus they were going to
have with all their animals.

"Yes, it's too bad one of Uncle Toby's dogs is gone," agreed Teddy. "Of
course we can do some tricks with Top, but it would be better with the
two of them."

"I wonder if he jumped out of the auto and ran away, if someone picked
him up off the seat, o