By this time Patrick had let the children do all the hose sprinkling
he thought was good for them, so back came running Dick and Dorothy,
Arnold and Mirabell, to play with their toys again.

"What shall we play now?" asked Dick of Arnold. "Shall we have
another battle with the Tin Soldiers?"

"Let's go to the garage and play we're going on an automobile trip,"
said Arnold. "We have had enough battles today."

So the Captain and his men were put back in their box and the cover
was closed down.

"Oh, dear!" thought the Lamb on Wheels. "Now if anything happens,
such as a big dog coming again, the Captain can not save us. He can
not get out of the box."

But the Lamb need not have worried, for she was taken into the house
by Mirabell, and so was the Sawdust Doll and the Rocking Horse. The
little girls went down the street to play with a friend named
Madeline, leaving their own toys in Dorothy's house, while Dick and
Arnold went out to the garage, and from there over to Arnold's
house.

But though no big dog came into the home of Dick and Dorothy to
carry away the Sawdust Doll, something else happened, almost as bad,
at least for the Bold Tin Soldier.

He and his men had been put in their box, and the box was put on a