"Shall we try it again?" asked the Jack, who really thought he was a
fine jumper.
"There will not be time," said the Bold Tin Soldier. "I can see the sun
coming up. Soon the store will begin to fill with clerks and shoppers,
and we must lie as still and quiet as if we never had moved or talked.
To-morrow night we shall have more fun."
A little later the girls and young ladies who worked at the toy counters
and shelves came in to get ready for customers.
Soon the people began coming in to look at the toys. The Lamb on Wheels
stood on the floor just under the counter. She was rather a large lamb,
over a foot high--that is, she was large for a toy lamb, though of
course real ones are larger than that when they grow up.
"I wonder if I shall see that nice little girl to-day," thought the
Lamb, as she heard the hum and buzz of the shoppers. "I hope I may. And
I hope I get as nice a home as the Sawdust Doll has."
She stood up straight and stiff, on her legs, did the Lamb. Her feet
were fast to a wooden platform, and under that were wheels, so the Lamb
could be rolled along from place to place.
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