re wild. I heard Uncle
Frank say so, and wild things bite!"

"But not Indians," insisted Teddy. "A Indian's mouth, even if he is
wild, is just like ours, and it isn't big enough to bite. You've got to
have an awful big mouth to bite."

"Henry Watson bit you once, I heard mother say so," declared Janet, as
she and her brother still stood by the rocks and listened again for the
funny sound to come from the stones. But there was silence.

"Well, Henry Watson's got an awful big mouth," remarked Teddy. "Maybe
he's wild, and that's the reason."

"He couldn't be an Indian, could he?" Janet went on.

"Course not!" declared her brother. "He's a boy, same as I am, only his
mouth's bigger. That's why he bit me. I 'member it now."

"Did it hurt?" asked Janet.

"Yep," answered her brother. "But I'm going in there and see what that
noise was. It won't hurt me."

Teddy began to feel that Janet was asking so many questions in order
that he might forget all about what he intended to do. And he surely did
want to see what was in among the rocks.

Once more he went closer to them, and then the noise sounded more loudly
than before. It came so suddenly that Teddy and Janet jumped back, and
there was no doubt but what they were both frightened.

"Oh, I'm not going to stay here another minute!" cried Janet. "Come on,
Ted, let's go home!"

"No, wait just a little!" he begged. "I'll go in and come right out
again--that is if it's anything that bites. If it isn't you can come in
with me."

"No, I'm not going to do that!" and Janet shook her head very decidedly
to say "no!" Once more she looked over her shoulder.

"Well, you don't have to come in," Teddy said. "I'll go alone. I'm not
scared."

Just then Janet looked across the fields, and she saw a man riding along
on a pony.

"Oh, Teddy!" she called to her brother. "Here's a man! We can get him to
go in and see what it is."

Teddy looked to where his sister pointed. Surely enough, there was a man
going along. He was quite a distance off, but the Curlytops did not mind
that. They were fond of walking.

"Holler at him!" advised Janet. "He'll hear us and come to help us find
out what's in here."

Teddy raised his voice in the best shout he knew how to give. He had
strong lungs and was one of the loudest-shouting boys among his chums.

"Hey, Mister! Come over here!" cried Teddy.

But the man kept on as if he had not heard, as indeed he had not. For on
the prairies the air