again."

"Oh, let's look!" cried Mirabell.

So the children ran to Dorothy's mother, who said she would have
Patrick, the gardener, look down in the coal bin for the lost Lamb on
Wheels.

But of course the Lamb on Wheels was not in Dorothy's cellar, and
Mirabell felt worse than ever.

"I guess some one must have come along the street when you weren't
looking, Mirabell," said Dorothy's mother, "and carried your Lamb away."

"I--I guess so," sobbed Mirabell. "Oh, but I wish I had her back. Uncle
Tim gave her to me, and now he is away far out on the ocean! Oh, dear!"
and the little girl felt very bad indeed.

She did not give up the search, and Dorothy, Dick and Arnold also
helped. They looked in the two yards, across the street, and in other
places, but the Lamb could not be found.

[Illustration: The Boys Leave Lamb on Wheels on the Raft]

The reason Mirabell could not find her toy, as you and I know very well,
was because the Lamb on Wheels was riding down the brook on a raft with
the two boys.

At first the Lamb was much frightened when she looked over the edge of
the flat boat of planks and boards, and saw water on all sides of her.