knack noticed the reflection of himself in the bright ice, which
was like glass.

"Baa-a-a-a-a!" he bleated again. "Baa-a-a-a!"

"Look out! He's going to jump!" cried Tom.

He made a grab for the goat, but only managed to get hold of his short,
stubby tail. To this Tom held as tightly as he could, but Nicknack was
not going to be stopped for a little thing like that.

Forward he jumped, but he did not quite reach the ice window. Instead
his horns and head butted against the side wall of the snow house, and
in it he made a great hole, near the window.

This made the wall so weak that the snow house began to cave in, for the
other wall had almost all been knocked down when the goat jumped through
that.

"Look out!" cried Ted. "It's going to fall!"

"Come on!" yelled Tom, letting go of Nicknack's tail.

"Take care of Trouble!" begged Jan of her brother.

Ted caught his little brother up in his arms. It was as much as he could
do, but, somehow or other, Ted felt very strong just then. He was afraid
Trouble would be hurt.

And then, just as the children hurried out of the door, pulling away, in
their haste, the blanket that was over the opening, the snow house
toppled down, some of the boards in the roof breaking.

"Oh, it's a good thing we weren't in there when it fell!" cried Lola.
"We'd all have been killed!"

"Snow won't kill you!" said her brother.

"But the boards might have hurt us," said Lola. "Our nice house is all
spoiled!"

"And Nicknack is under the snow in there!" cried Ted.

"No, he isn't! Here he comes out," answered Janet. And just as she said
that, out from under the pile of boards and the snow that was scattered
over them, came Nicknack. With a wiggle of his head and horns, and a
scramble of his feet, which did not have any rubber on now, Nicknack
managed to get out from under the fallen playhouse, and with a leap he
stood beside the children.

"There, Nicknack! See what you did!" cried Janet.

"Spoiled our nice snow house!" added Lola.

"We'll build you another," promised Ted. "Say, I never knew our goat was
such a good jumper."

"He's strong all right," agreed Tom.

"Nicknack a funny goat!" laughed Trouble, as his brother set him down on
a smooth place in the snow.

"I guess Trouble thinks it was all just for fun," said Tom. "He isn't
scared a bit."

"Oh, Trouble doesn't get scared very easy," answered Jan. "He's always
laughing. Aren't you, Trouble?" and she hugged him.

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