of lead. "I can pretend that is a medal my Captain got in the battle
when his sword was broken."

"Yes, you can do that," agreed Dick.

So the toy was mended again, and was almost as good as before, and
very glad the Captain was.

"For no matter what your men may say," he thought to himself, "a
Captain without a sword is like an elephant without a trunk--he
doesn't look himself."

Thanking Patrick very much for what he had done in mending the toy,
Arnold went home, taking his set of Soldiers with him. A little
later his sister, Mirabell, followed, bringing with her the Lamb on
Wheels. And when the two toys were left alone, the children having
gone to supper, they talked together--did the Soldier and the Lamb.

"You are certainly having plenty of adventures," said the Lamb, in
her bleating voice.

"Yes. And for a time, when I saw the White Rocking Horse bearing
down on me, I thought all my adventures were over," replied the Bold
Tin Soldier.

"I hope that careless boy never comes around where we are again,"
said the Lamb, and the Soldier hoped the same thing.

And now I must tell you another adventure that happened to the Bold
Tin Soldier. It was about a week after the White Rocking Horse had