in a Noah's Ark and that there's a flood and all like that! Won't that
be fun?"

"Yes, I guess it will," said the big boy. "Come on! I'll carry the
Lamb."

So, picking up the toy and tucking it under his arm, he led the way to
the brook, which ran through the vacant lots. It was a nice brook, not
too deep, and wide enough to sail boats on.

"Now we'll make the raft," said the smaller boy, as they came to a place
on the bank of the brook where there were some boards and planks.

The big boy set the Lamb down near the water and then the two lads began
to make a raft. A raft is like the big, wide, flat boat, without any
house or cabin on it. It did not take long to make it.

"All aboard!" cried the big boy, when the raft had been finished. "All
aboard! Come on!" He picked up the Lamb again, and walked out on the
raft. The smaller boy went with his chum. With long poles, cut from a
near-by tree, the boys shoved the raft out into the middle of the brook.

"Now we're a Noah's Ark!" laughed the small boy, "and we have one animal
with us--a woolly Lamb on Wheels!"

And down the brook Mirabell's toy went sailing with the two boys on the
raft.

"This is certainly surprising!" thought the Lamb. "I was bought by a
sailor, and here I am making a voyage! I hope I shall not be seasick!"