So the toys talked together and told one another their different adventures. The night passed. Madeline, Herbert and Sidney slept, and Sidney dreamed of the fun he would have with his Calico Clown when the broken leg was firmly glued together again.
And as the night passed the glue dried and set, and the Clown, feeling his leg growing better, grew happier.
"I say!" he called out just before morning to the Rabbit and the Cat.
"Are you asleep?"
"I was, but I am awake now," the sugar Bunny answered.
"And I am awake too," added the Cat.
"Then I will dance for you," went on the Clown. "My leg is better."
He stood up and he cut such funny antics by clapping his cymbals together, standing first on one leg and then on the other, jiggling his hands and feet, that the Cat went into mews of laughter and the Rabbit chuckled until his pink nose seemed to wrinkle all up like an accordion.
CHAPTER IV
UP IN A TREE
Faster and faster danced the Calico Clown. No one needed to pull his strings now, for he could dance by himself, no eyes of children or grown folk being in the closet to watch him.