" exclaimed Janet, looking from the window toward
the station as the train slowed up to stop.

Out piled the Curlytops, and into the arms of Uncle Frank they rushed.
He caught them up and kissed them one after the other--Teddy, Janet and
Trouble.

"Well, well!" he cried, "I'm glad to see you! Haven't changed a bit
since you were snowed in! Now pile into the wagon and we'll get right
out to Circle O Ranch."

"Where's that?" asked Teddy.

"Why, that's the name of my ranch," said Uncle Frank. "See, there's the
sign of it," and he pointed to the flank of one of the small horses, or
ponies, hitched to his wagon. Ted and Janet saw a large circle in which
was a smaller letter O.

"We call it Circle O," explained the ranchman. "Each place in the West
that raises cattle or horses has a certain sign with which the animals
are branded, or marked, so their owners can tell them from others in
case they get mixed up. My mark is a circle around an O."

"It looks like a ring-around-the-rosy," said Janet.

"Say! So it does!" laughed Uncle Frank. "I never thought of that. Ring
Rosy Ranch! That isn't a half bad name! Guess I'll call mine that after
this. Come on to Ring Rosy Ranch!" he invited as he laughed at the
Curlytops.

And the name Janet gave Uncle Frank's place in fun stuck to it, so that
even the cowboys began calling their ranch "Ring Rosy," instead of
"Circle O."

CHAPTER VI

COWBOY FUN

Into the big wagon piled the Curlytops, Mrs. Martin and Trouble, while
Daddy Martin and Uncle Frank went to see about the baggage.

Jan and Ted looked curiously about them. It was the first time they had
had a chance to look quietly since they had started on the journey, for
they had been traveling in the train nearly a week, it seemed.

What they saw was a small railroad station, set in the midst of big
rolling fields. There was a water tank near the station, and not far
from the tank was a small building in which a pump could be heard
chug-chugging away.

"But where is the ranch?" asked Janet of her brother. "I don't see any
cows and horses."

"Dere's horses," stated Trouble, pointing to the two sturdy ponies
hitched to the wagon.

"Yes, I know," admitted Janet. "But Uncle Frank said he had more'n a
hundred horses and----"

"And a thousand steers--that's cattle," interrupted Ted. "I don't see
any, either. Maybe we got off at the wrong station, Mother."

"No, you're all right," laughed Mrs. Martin. "Didn't Uncl