"
"Your time will come," said the Captain. "You are such a lively chap
that I should think you would have many things happen to you."
"Yes, I'm not slow, whatever else you may say about me," chattered
the Monkey, and, with that, he turned a somersault on his stick, but
of course none of the people in the store saw him, for that was not
allowed, you know.
"Hush! The people are coming back!" suddenly called the Candy
Rabbit, and, surely enough, Mirabell, Arnold and their mother came
back after having seen the buzzing top.
"I think that would not be just the right kind of an Easter present
I want for Madeline," said Mirabell's mother. "I'll look here, among
the toys."
"Why don't you get her a Candy Rabbit?" asked Mirabell.
"I believe I will," said Mother. She picked the Candy Rabbit up and
looked at him. He was a fine fellow, colored just like a real
rabbit, and with pink eyes and a pink nose.
"Oh, now my adventures will soon begin," thought the Candy Rabbit.
"I think this will do very nicely for Madeline," said the mother of
the two children. "I will come at Easter for it," she went on to the
clerk. "Come, children."
And when Arnold had picked up his Bold Tin Soldier and put him back
in his pocket, the children and their mother left the store.
The Captain wished he might have had another chance to speak to his
toy friends, but it was not to be just then.
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