The Story of a Bold Tin Soldier

aid a lady who was with the fat boy. "You m

d Mr. Mugg. "He is one of the newest of the Christmas to

owe, the jolly fat boy. "As soon as I saw him I knew I'd lik

r. Mugg for that very purpose. There he sat on the top of the glass showcase,

aughed loud and long as his plaything amused the throng. For the Plush Bear was to belong to Arthur. Passing down the street earl

e the Plush Bear no longer moved his paws and head and caused him to growl. "Wrap him up, and I'll

, who put him in tissue paper and then in the same box in whi

Plush Bear to himself as the tissue paper covered his eyes and shut out the sight

move of his own accord for the same reason. He felt a little sad at leaving all his toy friends

th his mother. "I'll invite Dick over with his White Rocking Horse, Arnold with his Bold Tin Soldie

wn was broken," remarked Mrs. Rowe as s

he other day," said Arthur. "Mirabell's Lamb on Wheels was broken,

ox. "I was talking to the Lamb and the Clown only last night. Well, it will not be so bad if I can see them once in

ich was almost like fur. Then he was wrapped in paper, and he was in a box, and he was inside the nice automobile. So he was even m

the fat boy, as he ran into the house as soon

her, carrying in her arms a Rag Doll, stopped when Arthur b

growly bears!"

wobbles his head and he jiggles his paws, and he growls, but

g had shown him. Then, when the Bear was set down on the floor, the toy began to wave hi

t down beside her brother to look at the

r. "See, he's waving his paw to you, and he only growls li

ion, she decided to make friends with him. She sat down on the floor close beside him, and when the cloc

nice?" ask

ed Nettie. "But he isn't

s like Plush Bears. That's the

Bear, winding him up, listening to his pretended grow

lush Bear was in the closet of the playroom with the Ra

of place

r children than Nettie and Arthur you could not wi

t?" asked the Plush Bear. "

that I have almost forgotten about it. But the seashore is quite different. I have been there with Nettie for two summers. And,

like to see it," s

y talked and had a good time together that n

any more than they did for the Rag Doll and the Plush Bear. During the Winter days and evenings other boys and girls came over to play with Arthur and Netti

ttie had her Rag Doll, and Arthur carried his Plush Bear. The children had seats near the window

called his mother. "Do

old his Plush Bear part way out of the window

at the Plush Bear was jerked from the fat boy's