Doll and our White Rocking Horse, and now, if the Lamb on Wheels goes
away from us--dear me!"

"I have no idea of going away!" answered the Lamb. "All I was going to
say was that a beautiful little girl came to the toy department to-day
with her mother, and she admired me very much--the little girl did. She
patted my back so softly, and she rubbed my head and she asked her
mother to buy me."

"And did she ?" asked the Calico Clown.

"No, I think not," replied the Lamb. "At least, if she did, I was not
taken away. But I wish, oh, how I wish I could get into a nice home,
such as the Sawdust Doll has."

"I trust you will get your wish," said the Calico Clown. "And I think we
all have the same wish--that we will have kind boys and girls to own us
when we go from here. But now let us be jolly. I'll tell you a funny
riddle."

"Oh, yes, please do!" begged the Lamb. "I love riddles!"

"Let me see, now," mused the Calico Clown, softly banging together his
cymbals. "I think I'll ask you the riddle about the pig. What makes more
noise than a pig under a gate?"

"What kind of gate?" asked the Monkey on a Stick.

"It doesn't make any difference what kind of gate," said the Clown.