"
"I'll come too," said Arnold. "I'll bring my little fire engine."
Soon the two children were having a good time with their toys in front
of the fireplace in the sitting room. On the hearth blazed a snapping,
crackling warm fire of logs.
"Now you can get nice and warm," said Mirabell to her Lamb, as she set
her down close to the fireplace. "You stay here and get warm, and I'll
go and ask Susan for some cookies to eat."
Arnold also went to the kitchen with his sister, and when the two
children came back to the sitting room they saw a dreadful sight. A
spark had popped out from the hearth and set fire to a piece of paper on
the floor near the Lamb on Wheels.
"Oh, she'll burn! My Lamb on Wheels will burn!" cried Mirabell, as she
rushed forward.
CHAPTER VI
DOWN THE COAL HOLE
Mirabell and Arnold had been told to be very careful whenever they
played in the sitting room, if a fire were burning on the open hearth.
But, for the moment, the little girl forgot about this. All she thought
of was that her Lamb on Wheels might be burned by the blazing paper,
which had been set on fire by a spark popping out from the blazing logs
on the hearth.
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