“Oh, I want to see that!” cried Arnold.
“So do I!” echoed Mirabell.
“Perhaps that would be an Easter toy for Madeline,” thought Mother.
So all three of them moved down toward the end of the toy counter, Arnold, for the moment, forgetting about his Tin Captain, who was thus left standing among his old friends with no one to watch him or them.
“Oh, how glad we are to see you here again!” exclaimed the Calico Clown. “We have only a moment before the folks come back, but tell us all about your adventures.”
“Oh, it would take too long,” said the Bold Tin Soldier. “I have had some remarkable ones, but falling into a sugar barrel was the queerest. But what a fine pair of trousers you have, Clown,” he said.
The funny chap looked pleased at this.
“Yes, these are the new ones the girl made for me after I scorched mine climbing the string too near the gas–the time you saved me, you know,” replied the Clown.
“My! you look gay enough for a circus,” said the Soldier.