And, as true as I’m telling you, she had made a big pitcher of sweet lemonade for the children, and had colored it pink with strawberry juice.

“Oh!  Ah!  Um!” said the boys and girls, and, really, I think the lemonade was almost as good a part of the show as the tricks of the Monkey, the fight of the Tin Soldiers, or the dance of the Sawdust Doll.

“Well, the show is over.  I wonder what will happen next,” said the Lamb on Wheels to the Bold Tin Captain.

“Maybe the children will have another,” said the Monkey.  “But, while we have the chance, I would like to talk to my friends the Sawdust Doll, the Bold Tin Soldier, the White Rocking Horse, and all the others.”

And so the toys talked among themselves, and told of their different adventures, just as I have told you in the different books.  And they all said the Monkey was very brave to have driven away the bad Goat as he had done.

“I’d like to know what the Calico Clown is doing all this time, since we came away from the toy store,” said the Monkey, after a while.

“So would I,” put in the Sawdust Doll.  “I wonder if anything has happened to him.”

And as perhaps you children are wondering the same thing, I have decided to make the next book about that funny chap.

The volume will be called “The Story of a Calico Clown.”  He had many wonderful adventures to tell about.

As for the Sawdust Doll, the Lamb on Wheels, the White Rocking Horse, the Candy Rabbit, the Bold Tin Soldier and the Monkey on a Stick, why, they had some strange adventures, too, and they took part in another show.  But this is all I have to tell you just now about the Monkey on a Stick, except to say that he lived for many years with Herbert and Madeline, and had many happy times.

THE END

THE LITTLE WASHINGTONS SERIES

By LILLIAN ELIZABETH ROY

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=Handsomely Bound.  Colored Wrappers.  Illustrated.=

=For Children 6 to 12 Years=

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This series presents early American history in a manner that impresses the young readers.  Because of George and Martha Washington Parke, two young descendants of the famous General Washington, these stories follow exactly the life of the great American, by means of playing they act the life of the Washingtons, both in battles and in society.

THE LITTLE WASHINGTONS

Their thrilling battles and expeditions generally end in “punishment” lessons read by Mrs. Parke from the “Life of Washington.”  The culprits listen intently, for this reading generally gives them new ideas for further games of Indian warfare and Colonists’ battles.

THE LITTLE WASHINGTONS RELATIVES

The Davis children visit the Parke home and join zealously in the games of playing General Washington.  So zealously, in fact, that little Jim almost loses his scalp.

THE LITTLE WASHINGTONS’ TRAVELS