"Why, Arnold's Bold Tin Soldier got caught in the curly wool on my
Lamb's back," explained Mirabell, "and they both fell into the flour
barrel!"

"That WAS funny!" laughed Daddy. And he was thinking so much about
this and laughing so with Arnold and Mirabell that he never stopped to
think of the Calico Clown in among the handkerchiefs he had put in the
wash-basket.

But that is what he had done. He had thrust the Clown, with the
handkerchiefs, down in Mandy's basket of soiled clothes.

"Oh, my! Oh, dear me! Oh, what is going to happen now?" thought the
Calico Clown as he felt himself covered up and taken away. "Oh, if I
could only tell Mirabell or Arnold I am here. Oh, this is dreadful."

But he could do nothing! Away he was taken in the wash-basket.




CHAPTER VIII

DOWN IN A DEEP HOLE


Daddy hurried into the house with Mirabell and Arnold. The children
were eager to show their father into what a funny pickle the Bold Tin
Soldier and the Lamb on Wheels had got. Of course, it wasn't exactly a