STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
TELL you Í saw it with my
Teddy Saw Something
-But Nobody In The Playroom Believes Him-
own eyes," said Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, to his friends Krarf and Hanid, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About
"He started running around," Names, and Hiawatha, Small-Sized Wooden Indian, and said Teddy, General Tin, the Tin Soldier.
the
Teddy said that what hap- pened was this:
-Now this was strange, be- cause everyone very well knew Late at night, when everyone that the Hobby Horse was the and least likely of in the house was asleep, Whoa, gentlest the Hobby Horse, suddenly came Animals in the whole house to
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run around.
Rupert and the Paper-fall-10
More bewildered than ever at ahe behaviour of the second small
ure, Bugest tries to follow the tracks of the model car, but they peter out into the grass after quite
be turns back over his village straight Bear is waiting for
him. "Where on earth have you been so early ?" she asks. “Come in and have your breakfast. Then you must help to put up the holly. Tomorrow is Christmas Day." "Sorry, Mummy." puffs Rupert it was that paper shower. I'll come in and explain."
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"But he did run around," Teddy insisted, "I watched him- myself last night while all of you were asleep. He ran straight for that wall."
And Teddy pointed to the big wall on the far side of the room, unbroken by doors or windows. It was just a solid wall.
"He must have hurt himself when he
into ran
it," said Hanid.
Teddy shook his head.
Went right through
couldn't speak. As far as any-
one could see, there wasn't any change in him. He stood with- out moving on a pair of wooden rockers.
Knarf gave the Hobby Horse a push and he rocked slightly back and forth.
"I don't think he can run at all," said General Tin to Hanid. "I never heard of a Horse who could run with these things on his feet," agreed Harid.
Nevertheless, that night, they all decided to stay awake and what Whoa, the Hobby Horse, really did.
see
They all sat clustered
in
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"I don't think he can run at all," said General Tin.
a the back of the Hobby Horse corner, their eyes on Whoa, the straight through the wall into Hobby Horse.
the wonderful country that lay
By 12 o'clock everyone in the beyond. house was fast asleep.
At least, that's what Teddy,
Stuffed Bear, told "He's not moving yet," Knarf the
his "That's the thing I don't whispered to the others. friends in the morning when understand. "Не ran right One o'clock came and went, they woke up. through it and disappeared. You Still Whoa, the Hobby Horse, "It was a wonderful ride," he don't believe me, do you?” didn't move. Everyone started said. "We rode through forests Teddy could see from the getting very sleepy everyone and over mountains and through faces of his friends that they but Teddy, the stuffed Bear, fields with the most beautiful really didn't believe him. And who kept saying:
Bewers that anyone has ever he was right. They didn't!
"Stay awake! Stay awake! seen. Didn't we?" he asked the Teddy shrugged. What could He's going to move any minute Hobby Horse. he do? He had told his friends now!" as much as he knew.
Standing quieth; in the corner
of the room against the book-
All fell asleep
Didn't answer
But Whoa, the Hobby Horse, didn't answer. He never spoke
case was Whoa, the Hobby But it was no use. Everyone to anybody. He just stood on Horse. Teddy watched as Knarf fell asleep. Only Teddy himself his wooden rockers, not moving
wide and Hiawatha and was
awake enough to a muscle.
and Hanid
General Tin gathered around climb on Whoa, the Hobby "I can see." Teddy said' the Hobby Horse,
Horse's back.
gloomily to his friends, "that And at exactly three o'clock, you don't believe me." Teddy rode off at a gallop on And the truth is, they didn't!
It was no use trying to talk to the Hobby Horse, for he
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