just been waiting to ask how all my friends are at the toy store. And
how are you? How did you get here? Do you like living in a house with
children more than in the store? Tell me all about it!"

"Goodness!" laughed the Candy Rabbit. "You talk as fast as a phonograph
Doll when she has been wound up tight."

"Well, we'll have to talk fast if we want to tell each other anything
before those children get back," said the Sawdust Doll. "Now you tell me
your adventures, and then I'll tell you mine."

The two toy friends talked for some time, the Candy Rabbit relating the
latest news of the toy store, and the Sawdust Doll speaking of the nice
home she had with Dorothy, and how kind Dick was to the White Rocking
Horse.

Then the Rabbit wanted to know about the Lamb on Wheels and the Bold Tin
Soldier, and, as the Sawdust Doll had heard from them lately, she told
some of their adventures.

"I do wish I could see the Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick once
more," sighed the Sawdust Doll. "They were certainly the jolliest toys I
ever knew."

"Yes, they were," agreed the Candy Rabbit. "And I don't believe the
Clown has yet found any one to answer his riddle about what makes more
noise than a pig under a gate."

"Hush! Here come the children!" exclaimed the Sawdust Doll in a low
voice. Madeline and Herbert, Dorothy and Dick, having seen the present