won't make the tower any higher
for a while. I'll get a curtain for a net."

"S'pose mother will mind?" asked Janet.

"Oh, no, I don't s'pose so," answered Teddy. "It won't hurt the curtain.
Jack isn't so big that he'll tear it, and if it gets dirty, an' maybe it
will a little, we can wash it again. You get Jack now, and I'll get the
curtain. Then we'll make Jack climb up to the top of the box tower and
jump off."

"How you going to get him to go up?" asked Janet, when Ted came back with
his mother's lace curtain which he had taken off the line.

"I'll put a piece of banana up there on the top box," Teddy answered. The
pile of boxes, nailed together, was higher than his head, but he had
brought out the stepladder so he could reach up with that.

"How you going to get Jack to jump down into the lace curtain net?" Janet
went on.

"I'll hold out another piece of banana," Teddy replied. "Come on here,
Jack, and learn a new trick!" he called to the monkey.

But just then both Teddy and Janet saw a sight that made them cry out in
surprise. And the sight was that of Trouble, coming around the corner of
the barn, driving before him Turnover and Skyrocket, the first cat and
dog pets the Curlytops had ever owned. But Turnover and Skyrocket had
never looked so funny as they did now, with Trouble urging them on and
crying:

"I dot a new twick! I dot a new twick! Look what me make Turn an' Sky
do!"

CHAPTER XV

PLANNING THE CIRCUS

"Well, look what that little tyke has done!" cried Teddy, with a laugh.

"All by himself, too!" added Janet. "How did he ever think of it?"

"And how he got Turnover and Skyrocket to stand still long enough to be
harnessed up is a wonder!" said Teddy.

For that is what baby William had done. With bits of string, straps and
strips torn from some pieces of cloth he had found in the barn, he had
made a crazy jumble of a harness for the dog and the cat. They were tied
and fastened together.

But this was not all. Besides harnessing the dog and cat together, like a
team made up of a big horse and a little pony, Trouble had made the two
pets fast to a small express wagon that he claimed as his very own,
though it had once belonged to Teddy.

"And look what he has in the wagon!" cried Janet, now laughing as
heartily as was Teddy. "My old rag doll--Miss Muffin!"

In her earlier days Janet had a large rag doll, which had been named Miss
Muffin, just why no one knew. But as she grew ol