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Updated: June 11, 2025
And when Madeline pulled the towel she pulled her Easter toy off the shelf and into the bathtub of water. "Splish! Splash!" went the Candy Rabbit into the water. "Oh, I'm going to drown! I know I'm going to drown!" thought the poor sweet chap, as the water closed over his ears. Madeline screamed, Mirabell screamed, and Dorothy screamed.
Then the wheels carried her across that to the far side of the room, and the Lamb brought up with a little bump against the baseboard. "Oh, I hope she isn't hurt!" cried Mirabell, as she ran to pick up her toy. And the Lamb was all right there was not even a kink out of place in her soft, woolly coat. So Mirabell and Arnold had fun letting the Lamb on Wheels coast down the ironing-board hill.
"Maybe one of the children put it in," suggested the girl. She knew the Man had children at home. "No, I hardly think it was any of MY children," said the Man. "Arnold has no toy like this. He has a Bold Tin Soldier, as he calls him, and some soldier men. And my little girl, Mirabell, has a Lamb on Wheels. But neither of them has a Calico Clown."
But it will be some time yet before he comes from the hospital." Mirabell entered the house with her Lamb on Wheels. The little girl looked sad when she heard about Joe, but a smile came over her face when she saw the Nodding Donkey, which Joe's mother brought from the closet. "Oh, what a lovely Donkey!" cried Mirabell. "See, Lamb!" and she held up her toy. "Meet Mr. Nodding Donkey!"
"Wait till I get the ironing board." It was kept in the cellar-way, hanging on a nail, and Arnold went there to get it. But the board was so long and heavy that his sister had to help him lift it down off the nail. "We'll put one end up on a chair, and the other end down on the floor," said Arnold. "That will make a sliding downhill place." "Yes," replied Mirabell, as she saw her brother do this.
So the children ran to Dorothy's mother, who said she would have Patrick, the gardener, look down in the coal bin for the lost Lamb on Wheels. But of course the Lamb on Wheels was not in Dorothy's cellar, and Mirabell felt worse than ever. "I guess some one must have come along the street when you weren't looking, Mirabell," said Dorothy's mother, "and carried your Lamb away."
And Mirabell was so careful that the Lamb never once cried Baa-a! as almost any other lamb would do if you pulled her wool. The little girl had made her Lamb nice and tidy, and she was going downstairs, Mirabell was, to see what Uncle Tim was doing, when Arnold came back from Dick's house with the toy fire engine and the wooden puzzle the sailor had made for him.
The Captain wished he might have had another chance to speak to his toy friends, but it was not to be just then. "I wonder if I shall see the Candy Rabbit again," he thought as he made himself comfortable in Arnold's warm pocket. In a little while the children were back home again after the shopping trip. "I am going to play with my Lamb on Wheels," said Mirabell.
And then the white, woolly Lamb on Wheels rolled across the sidewalk, and disappeared down into the dark coal hole! Mirabell and Arnold were so surprised for a moment at what had happened that they could only stand, looking at the hole in the sidewalk down which the Lamb on Wheels had fallen.
"I can't tell you how glad and happy I am," said Mirabell. "I am glad I happened to find your toy for you," replied the odd-job man. Then, the little girl, nodding and smiling at Patrick and Mike, ran laughing across the yard to tell her mother the good news. "I'm never going to lose my Lamb on Wheels again!" said Mirabell.
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