The Story of a Bold Tin Soldier
saw the Plush Bear just in time, Mr. Bruin would have been crushed. His spring that made him move his head and paws and the growler inside him would have been broken to bits. Bu
a minute!" shoute
the Plush Bear, who had seen the rubbe
am?" asked the man in
arm, for he saw his Plush Bear had slipped, as it had s
ome nigh onto runnin' ober it. Heah it is, li'l man," went on the chai
ettie, who had seen what almost had happen
st received the toy she had wanted to call the doll Polly, but the little girl next door said Lucinda would b
that had almost run over Mr. Bruin, and then the two chairs were pushed on by the men rolling them. Just behind Arthur and his sister, in another cha
ie of her brother, as they were whee
rthur. "I guess you're thinking of Joe's
after all that happen
said Arthur. "But I'l
ugh the Plush Bear began to move his paws, shake his head from side to side
right," sa
happen when one falls out of a car window and then from a wheeled chair to the boardwalk.
h, Arthur and his sister, with their father and mother, went back to their hotel. Evening was coming on and it was time for sup
ettie, as she and her brother got out of the wheeled c
h Bear would like it
in the sand all day to-mor
cried Nettie. "Maybe my R
I'm not going to let my Plush Bear get in the water
ome fun," thought the toy, as
his grunter, by means of which he growled, seemed to be turning over and over. But this did not last long, and wh
this fashionable seasid
e hotel parlor as she was carried in. "I wish Nettie would put a different dress on me, though," t
e in them. I don't need any, I'm glad to say, not even at the cold
ing things in a hotel bathroom. I want to work the shower, and turn the shiny handles. There are eve
ed the Plush Bear
Rag Doll might have got into, only, just then,
with my Plush Bear!
Doll to sleep," said Nettie
There was no chance now for them to have fun with the shin
ther and mother were asleep, the Bear and Doll had a ch
the water now," said the Doll. "It would make such a noise
d then on chairs, the two toys looked from the hotel windows. They saw many lights sparkling, and
on the sand to play, the little fat boy tak
a small, red-haired chap as he ran
hur. "He's a Plush Bear, and he can move
m!" begged the
ing, and, surely enough, t
d lad. "If you let me play with him, I'
egan a happy time for the children. Some little girls came ov
ink of what he had said he was goin
said to the red-haired la
airship, the two little friends began to make a large hole in the sand. When it was
the bars of his cage," said Arthur.
he red-haired boy.
or some time. Then other boys and girls came along, joining
her if we can't ride on t
in the hole, away they ran to tease for ponies to ride. Mrs. Rowe wa
the ponies," she said. "I'll take yo
ll about his Plush Bear in the sand cave. The toy was
king." He was just going to do this when along the beach dashed one of the ponies with a little girl on his back. The pony