"It will be even stronger," answered the hospital toy doctor. "I will
have him ready for you in a few days; perhaps tomorrow."

"And will the broken leg show?" asked Daddy.

"Hardly any," was the reply. "I will paint it over so you will never
know it."

"Then the Horse will be almost as good as ever," said Daddy.

"Just as good," said the toy doctor, and the Horse felt much better
when he heard this. His leg did not pain him so much.

The hospital toy doctor set the White Rocking Horse over in one corner
near a work bench. Dick's Daddy, after a look around the hospital
started back home in his automobile.

"We'll soon have you fixed, my fine fellow!" said the toy doctor, as
he again took up his work of putting a new pair of eyes in a wax doll.
"We'll make as good a Horse of you as before."

"I certainly am glad of that," thought the Horse to himself.

It soon became too dark for the toy doctor to see to work any longer,
even though he lighted the gas. So he took off his long apron, laid
aside his square, paper cap, locked up the place and went home.

And then the White Rocking Horse took a long breath.

"Now that I am alone I'll move about, as well as I can on three legs,