And, mind you, I'm not saying that the Calico Clown or the Monkey on a
Stick pushed the rubber ball off the toy counter so that it rolled over
in time for the Candy Rabbit to fall on it. I am not saying that for
sure, but it might have happened.
"I'd better wrap this Rabbit up before anything else happens to him,"
said the clerk, with a laugh.
"Please do," begged the lady.
As for the Candy Rabbit, his little sugar heart was beating very fast
because of the fright he had got when he thought he was going to be
broken to bits. But of course neither the lady nor the girl knew this.
They just thought he was made of sugar, and nothing else.
The girl quickly wrapped the Rabbit up in some sheets of soft tissue
paper, and some padding made of curled wood, called excelsior. Some of
the curled wood got in the Rabbit's ear and tickled him and made him
smile.
"Well, now I am going on a journey," said the Candy Rabbit to himself,
as he felt the lady carrying him out of the store. "I wish I had time to
say good-bye to my new friends on the Easter counter, and to the Calico
Clown and the Monkey on a Stick. But perhaps I shall see them again,
and maybe I shall meet the Sawdust Doll or the Bold Tin Soldier."
Just what happened, while he was wrapped in the store bundle, of course
the Candy Rabbit did not know, but he felt that he was being taken on
quite a journey.
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