fellow, as well as being very gaily dressed.

But now all the toys were still and quiet. They sat or stood or were
lying down on the counter, waiting for what would happen next. And
what generally did happen was that some customers came to the store
and bought them.

Already a number of the toys had been sold and taken away. There was
the Sawdust Doll. She was the first to go. Then the White Rocking
Horse had been bought for a boy named Dick, a brother of Dorothy, who
now owned the Sawdust Doll. The Lamb on Wheels had been purchased by a
jolly sailor, and when the Lamb saw him she feared she would be taken
on an ocean trip and made seasick. But the sailor gave the Lamb to a
little girl named Mirabell. And, in the course of time, her brother
Arnold was given a Bold Tin Soldier and some soldier men.

The Candy Rabbit--about whom I have told you in a book, as I have told
you of these other toys--the Candy Rabbit was given as an Easter
present to a little girl named Madeline, and her brother Herbert had,
later, been given the Monkey on a Stick.

The Calico Clown was looking over at the Celluloid Doll, thinking how
pretty she was, and he was also thinking of the Sawdust Doll, whom he
had liked very much, when, all of a sudden, it seemed as if a
whirlwind had blown into the toy department.

A boy with a very loud voice and feet that tramped and stamped on the
floor rushed up to the counter.

"I want a toy! I want something to play with!" cried this boy. "I want