"He's unloading wood at our back gate, and he's going to take
away a load of trash for me. Come and thank him yourself."
And Mirabell, holding the Lamb in her arms, did so.
"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.
"I wonder where she was, and how she got on the raft by the brook," said
Arnold, when he and Dick and Dorothy had heard the story of the finding
of the lost toy.
"I don't know," answered Mirabell.
"All I know is that I have her back again, and, oh! I'm so happy!"
"I certainly am glad to get back to Mirabell again," said the Lamb on
Wheels to herself. "And what a remarkable adventure I shall have to tell
the Sawdust Doll and the White Rocking Horse when I see them again!"
This happened very soon, for a few days later Mirabell carried the Lamb
on Wheels over to Dorothy's house.
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