wn. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Martin there was Nora,
the maid.

Grandpa Martin has been mentioned, and of course there was Grandma
Martin. They lived at Cherry Farm. Mrs. Martin's sister, Miss Josephine
Miller, lived in the city of Clayton.

Aunt Jo, as the children called her, owned, besides her city home, a
country place in Mt. Hope on Ruby Lake. She said she would some day
build a nice, new bungalow at the lake.

Another relative, of whom the Curlytops were fond, was Uncle Frank
Barton. He was really Mr. Martin's uncle, but Ted and Jan claimed him as
their own. He had a big ranch near Rockville, Montana, and the children
hoped to go there some day.

Besides their goat, Ted and Jan had a dog named Skyrocket and a cat
called Turnover, because she would lie down and roll over to get
something to eat. The dog's name was given him because he was always so
lively, running and jumping here, there and everywhere.

And now that you have learned more about the family, you will, perhaps,
wish to hear what was happening to Teddy.

Down the second hill he went on his runaway sled, very fast, for the bob
of the big boys had struck his coaster quite a blow. And the second hill
was much more slippery than the first, some of the boys having sprinkled
it with water, that had frozen into ice.

"Oh, dear!" thought poor Ted, as he went sliding down faster and faster.
"I'm afraid!"

And well he might be, for at the foot of the hill, where the railroad
crossed, he could now hear the puffing of an engine and the ringing of a
bell.

"Ted! Teddy! Come back! Stop!" cried Jan, as she ran down the hill. But
Teddy could neither stop nor come back just then.

CHAPTER III

NICKNACK ON THE ICE

Janet Martin did not know what to do. In fact, a girl much older than
Ted's sister would have been puzzled to know how to stop the little boy
on his runaway sled from going across the railroad tracks. Of course he
might get across before the train came, but there was danger.

"Oh, dear!" cried Jan. "Those big boys were mean to bunk into Ted, and
push him over the second hill!"

She was tired now, and running down a slippery hill is not easy. So Jan
stood still. Many of the other coasters did not know that Ted was in
danger. They saw the larger boys coasting down the second hill, and
perhaps they thought Teddy knew what he was about as long as his sled
was going so straight down the same slope.

For Ted was steering very straight. With h