broken leg of the Rocking Horse. Dear me, that is quite a bad break,"
said the toy doctor. "I think I shall have to make him a whole new
wooden leg."

The White Rocking Horse felt glad when he heard this. For he was
rather a proud chap, and when he had seen part of the Elephant's old
trunk put back on that animal, the Horse thought of how he would look
with part of his old broken leg glued fast.

"I had much rather have a whole new leg," he said to himself.

And that is exactly what he had. Out of a piece of wood the toy doctor
made a new leg for the Rocking Horse. He took off the old, splintered
one, that had been broken in the fall off the porch. Then the new leg
was put in place.

"There! When it's painted no one will ever know one of his legs was
broken," said the toy doctor.

The new leg was smoothed with sandpaper, and then painted just the
color of the other legs.

"I'm glad he painted my new leg," thought the Horse. "I would look
very funny with three white legs and one brown or red one. Yes, this
toy doctor is a very smart man. I feel quite myself now."

The toy hospital doctor was busy in his shop all day, mending things
that children break in their play, and toward evening Dick's father
came in.