"Am I sure of what?" inquired the Jack, as he swung to and fro on the
spring which made him pop out of the box.
"Are you sure we are alone?" went on the Soldier. "It would be too bad
if we should come to life when any one could see us."
"There is no one in the department but us toys," said a Calico Clown,
and he banged together some shiny cymbals on the ends of his arms. "The
Jack is right--we are all by ourselves."
"I am glad of it," said a woolly Lamb on Wheels, who stood on the floor,
just under the edge of the toy counter. She was rather too large to be
up among the smaller toys. "Yes, I am glad of it," went on the Lamb. "I
have kept still all day, and now I have something to tell you all, my
friends."
"Something nice?" asked a Candy Rabbit, who stood next to a Monkey on a
Stick.
"I think it is nice," said the Lamb. "But, as you know, I could not move
about or speak so long as any of the clerks or customers were here."
"That's so," agreed the Bold Tin Soldier.
For it was one of the rules of Toyland, as you know, that none of the
folk who lived there could do anything while human eyes were watching
them.
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