“I’ll see,� answered the mother, and from the way she said this, and because of the smile on her face and the look in her eyes, the little girl clapped her hands. I think she knew her mother was going to get her the doll she wanted.
For a moment the Sawdust Doll thought the little girl was going to buy her and take her home.
“I’d just love to go with her,� thought the Sawdust Doll to herself. “She looks like a kind, good little girl, and I’m sure she wouldn’t leave me out in the rain all night to get soaked through. I wonder if I shall go to her house to live?�
“Dear me!� thought the Tin Captain to himself, “I hope the Sawdust Doll isn’t going to leave. I shall be lonesome if she goes.�
Just then there was a shout and some jolly laughter down on the floor of the toy department.
“Oh, this is what I want! This is what I want!� cried Dorothy’s brother, Dick. “Here’s the White Rocking Horse I want!�
And the next moment he had leaped to the saddle, and then he rocked to and fro on the back of the white horse. The stirrups jingled and the boy shook the reins that were fast in the wooden mouth of the horse.
“Gid-dap, White Rocking Horse!� cried the boy. “I’m a cowboy! Gid-dap!�
“I thought you were going to be a soldier captain,� said the little girl, who had run from the doll counter when she heard her brother’s joyous laughter.
“I’ll be a cowboy part of the time and a soldier the other part,� he said. “And if you get a doll, Dorothy, I’ll let her ride on my horse. Please, Mother, buy me this!� he begged.