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what they were going to do. Herbert showed his mother the Monkey he had
found in the meadow, and Dick hurried over to his house to get his
Rocking Horse, and to tell his sister about the show.

"What can I make a tent of?" asked Herbert.

"Oh, I think I can let you take some old sheets," said his mother, "and
you can hang them over the clothesline in the yard. That will make a
nice little tent for your show."

"Yes, that will be fine," said Herbert. "Thank you, Mother."

He carried his Monkey into the house and put him on a table, where
Madeline was sitting, playing with her Candy Rabbit.

"Watch my Monkey so he doesn't jump away, will you, please?" asked
Herbert of his sister, laughing and pretending his toy was alive.

"What are you going to do?" asked Madeline.

"Make a tent to have a show," answered her brother.

"Oh, let me help!" she cried, and she set her Candy Rabbit down on the
table near the Monkey and ran out with Herbert. Mother gave the children
the sheet, and in a little while the sheet tent was being put up in the
yard over the clothesline.

[Illustration: Monkey Thanks Jack in the Pulpit.
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As soon as the Candy Rabbit and Monkey found themselves alone they
looked at one another and began to talk, as they were allowed to do.

"Where in the world have you been?" asked the Candy Rabbit.

"You may well ask that," replied the Monkey. "I have had _so_ many
adventures, and I met some friends of yours."

"Friends of mine?" repeated the Candy Rabbit. "Do you mean the Lamb on
Wheels or the Bold Tin Soldier?"

"Neither one. I mean Live Rabbits," answered the Monkey. Then he told of
going to the cave of Jack Hare and of being caught in the rain storm.

"Oh, what wonderful adventures!" exclaimed the Candy Rabbit.

"What happened to you while I was away?" asked the Monkey.

"Oh, many things," answered the Candy Rabbit. "Once Madeline left me
alone, and the cat came in and began to lick the sugar off my pink
nose. Another time a little mouse came out of a hole in the closet where
I am kept at night, and nibbled a few crumbs of sweetness off the end of
my stubby tail."

"Gracious!" cried the Monkey. "Weren't you scared?"

"A little," answered the Rabbit. "But I jumped to one side, and when
Madeline opened the closet door the mouse ran away."

All the while the Monkey and Candy Rabbit were talking, Herbert, Dick
and Arnold, with Madeline, Dorothy and Mirabell to help, were putting up