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Updated: June 11, 2025
When Arnold and Mirabell went home they would take the Soldiers and the Lamb with them. But before this came about something happened. A lady came to call on Dorothy's mother, bringing with her a little boy named Tad. Now Tad was not a bad little boy, but he was always looking for something to play with and he was not careful.
If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the House, he starts up, 'He has good blood in his veins, Tom Mirabell begot him, that rogue cheated me in that affair; that young fellow's mother used me more like a dog than any woman I ever made advances to. This way of talking of his very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn; and I find there is not one of the company, but myself, who rarely speak at all, but speaks of him as of that sort of man who is usually called a well-bred Fine Gentleman.
And once Patrick had saved the Lamb on Wheels, as you may read in the book written specially about that toy. "Did they hurt you, Mirabell or Arnold?" asked the gardener, as he came back from chasing the boys. "No, thank you, not much," Arnold answered. "One bean struck me on the nose, but it didn't hurt hardly any." "And one bean knocked over one of your Soldiers, Arnold," said Mirabell.
"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.
"Oh, Mirabell, I know how we can have a lot of fun!" cried Arnold. "How?" asked the little girl. "With your new Lamb," went on her brother. "Come on, I'll show you. We must go down to the kitchen. It's a new trick. Dick told me about it. He did it with an old roller skate." "What trick is it?" asked Mirabell. "I hope it won't hurt my Lamb." "No, it'll be a lot of fun," said Arnold.
The next morning Arnold opened the closet and took out his box of Tin Soldiers where they stood in their places straight and stiff, with their Captain at their head. "What are you going to do, Arnold?" asked Mirabell. "I'm going over to Dick's house to have some fun," he answered. "I will let him play with my Soldiers, and he will let me ride on his White Rocking Horse."
"I'm glad you like them," she said. "Would you care for another?" "Thank you, yes," the boy answered. And just as Susan was giving him one, and also passing another to Mirabell, Dick, the boy from next door, cried: "Come on out into the yard, Arnold. I have a new little kitten!" "Oh, I want to see it!" shouted Mirabell. "So do I," added Arnold. "And please, Susan, may I have a cookie for Dick?"
"And I'll get my Candy Rabbit," offered Madeline. "I'll have to have somebody help me carry over my Tin Soldier Captain and all the men," said Arnold. "I don't want to drop any of 'em." "I'll help you, as soon as I bring out my Monkey," offered Herbert. "And I'd like somebody to help me carry over my Lamb," said Mirabell. "I'll help you," said Dick.
"For me to keep, Uncle Tim?" asked Mirabell, as the sailor took the wrapping paper off. "Yes, for you to keep," was the sailor's answer. "Did you think I would be buying a Lamb for myself, to take to sea with me? Ho! Ho! I should say not!" he chuckled. "Oh, how glad I am! And how I shall love this Lamb!" said the little girl.
She turned back the sheet she had spread over the soiled clothes and made a little place down in one corner for the Man to put his handkerchiefs. There was quite a bundle of them, all wadded together. "There, you can tell Mother I didn't forget my handkerchiefs this time," said Daddy to his two children. "You saw me put them in the wash, didn't you?" "Yes, Daddy, we did!" exclaimed Mirabell.
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