, "and he's going for that. Oh, look out! Come back, Nicknack!
Come back!" Teddy yelled.

But with another bleat and a shake of his head Nicknack, having seen
himself reflected in the ice window, and thinking it another goat,
started on a run for the snow house, inside of which were Jan, Tom, Lola
and Trouble.

CHAPTER VI

THE SNOW MAN

Sounding his funny, bleating cry, like a sheep, Nicknack gave a jump
straight for the ice window in which he had seen himself as in a looking
glass.

"Crash!" went the ice window.

"Oh, my!" screamed Lola, inside the snow house.

"What is it?" asked Jan, for Lola stood in front of her.

Trouble looked up from where he was sitting beside Tom on the snow
bench, and just then the goat went right through the soft, snow side of
the house and scrambled down inside.

"Dat's our goat!" exclaimed Trouble, as if that was the way Nicknack
always came in. "Dat's our goat!"

For a moment Jan and Lola had been so frightened that they did not know
what it was. Luckily they were not in Nicknack's way when he jumped
through, so he did not land on them.

But the snow house was so small that there was hardly room for a big
goat inside it, besides the four children, even with Ted outside, and
Nicknack almost landed in the laps of Tom and Trouble when he jumped
through. In fact, his chin-whiskers were in Trouble's face, and Baby
William laughed and began pulling them as he very often did.

"Baa-a-a-a!" bleated the goat and then he quickly turned around to see,
I suppose, what had become of the other goat against which he had
leaped, intending to butt him out of the way.

"Oh, Nicknack!" cried Jan. "What made you jump in on us like that?"

"Oh, my, I'm so scared!" gasped Lola. "Will he bite us?"

"Nicknack never bites," answered Janet reprovingly. "But what made him
jump into the snow house and break the ice window?"

"'Cause he saw himself in it," answered Ted, coming in just then. "I
knew what he was goin' to do but I couldn't stop him. Say, Tom, he made
an awful big jump!"

"I should say he did!" exclaimed Tom. "I thought the whole place was
coming down! You'd better call your goat out, Curlytop, or he may knock
our snow house all to pieces."

"All right, I will," agreed Ted. "Here, Nicknack!" he called. "Come on
outside!"

Nicknack turned at the sound of his little master's voice, and just then
he saw another ice window. The sun was shining on that, too, and once
more Nic