have had so many adventures!"

Then he related how the monkey had taken him up into the tree and how
finally he had got back home.

"Quite remarkable," said the Lamb on Wheels. "You certainly have--
Ouch! Oh, dear!" said the Lamb, suddenly switching one of her legs.

"What's the matter?" asked the Bold Tin Soldier. "If anybody is
teasing you I'll make him stop!" and he drew his sword and looked very
fierce--as all tin soldiers look.

"It was nothing," said the Lamb on Wheels. "Just a pang of rheumatism.
The remains of the cold I caught in one of my wheels the time I made
the voyage down the brook on the raft the boys built."

Then the Sawdust Doll told of a little adventure she had had recently,
when she was left in the wrong doll carriage by mistake and was taken
home to the wrong house.

"Nothing as remarkable as jumping downstairs and scaring the burglars
has happened to me," said the White Rocking Horse. "But Dick was
riding me in the kitchen the other day and he ran me over an egg."

"Did it hurt you?" asked the Monkey.

"No; but it spoiled the egg," said the Horse, laughing.

"Well, I must say it is very nice of the children to get up a party
for us like this," said the Calico Clown. "And I, for one--"