hurt a bit, but just bounced straight up, almost as far as he had fallen down, and the girl clerk caught him in her hands.
"Oh, I'm so glad he wasn't broken!" she exclaimed.
"So am I!" said the lady. "How remarkable! The rubber ball rolled along just in time. If every time any one or anything fell a rubber ball would happen along it would be very nice, wouldn't it?"
"Indeed it would," answered the girl clerk.
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.
