“Oh, now my adventures will soon begin,” thought the Candy Rabbit.
“I think this will do very nicely for Madeline,” said the mother of the two children. “I will come at Easter for it,” she went on to the clerk. “Come, children.”
And when Arnold had picked up his Bold Tin Soldier and put him back in his pocket, the children and their mother left the store.
The Captain wished he might have had another chance to speak to his toy friends, but it was not to be just then.
“I wonder if I shall see the Candy Rabbit again,” he thought as he made himself comfortable in Arnold’s warm pocket.
In a little while the children were back home again after the shopping trip.
“I am going to play with my Lamb on Wheels,” said Mirabell. “I am going to take her over to Dorothy’s house to see the Sawdust Doll.”
“And I’ll take my Soldiers over and have some fun with Dick and his White Rocking Horse,” said Arnold.
And when the four toys in Dick’s house had a chance to talk among themselves, as the children were out of the room for a while, the Captain said:
“Oh, I have such news for you!”