Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch (Paperback)

Excerpt: ... automobile, and in this he and the children were soon hurrying along the road toward Ring Rosy Ranch. It was decided to go there first instead of to the cave where the pony was. "We'll get Jim Mason and take him back with us," said the doctor. Uncle Frank and his cowboys had come back from looking after the lost ponies, but had not found them. He, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Martin, were very much surprised when the Curlytops came riding up to the ranch in Doctor Bond's automobile. "Well, where in the world have you been?" cried Mother Martin. "We were just beginning to get worried about you children. Where were you?" "We found a pony " cried Janet. "And he's sick " added Teddy. "And his name is Clipclap " exclaimed the little girl. "And he's mine but Janet can have half of him, and we got him water in our hats," came from Teddy. "And we got the doctor, too " went on his sister. "Well, I should say you'd put in quite a busy day," chuckled Uncle Frank. "Now let's hear more about it." So the Curlytops told, and Doctor Bond said, even if he was not a horse doctor, he'd go out and look at the pony in the cave, if the ranch foreman would come with him. "Of course I'll come " cried Jim Mason. "I wouldn't want to see any pony suffer. And I've doctored quite a few of 'em, even if I don't know much about medicine. Come on, Curlytops " Jim Mason jumped on his own swift pony, saying he could make as good time over the rough prairie as Doctor Bond could in his automobile. The Curlytops rode in the machine with the physician. Uncle Frank and Daddy Martin went along, for they, too, were interested in the sick pony. It did not take long to get to the cave amid the rocks. Jim Mason's horse reached there ahead of the automobile, and the foreman had gone into the cave and come out again by the time the Curlytops were getting out of the machine. "Well, he's a pretty sick pony all right," said the foreman of the cowboys of Ring Rosy Ranch. "Can you make him better?..".