When the Toys Walked Home

When the Toys Walked Home

Sheila had a lovely dolls' pram and she took her dolls and her teddy-bear out in it every day for a nice long walk. She never missed a day, and all the toys enjoyed their walk very much.

One day the little girl next door asked Sheila if she would lend her pram just for that morning.

'Oh, do, Sheila,' she begged. 'I have never had a pram, and I would so like to wheel one just once. Do lend me yours.'

'But my dolls will miss their walk dreadfully if I let you have my pram this morning,' said Sheila. 'Besides, you might break it, or run into something on the pavement.'

'I wouldn't,' said Ann, the little girl. 'I would be very careful, I wouldn't take your pram out on the road, Sheila. I would just wheel it round and round my garden.'

'My dolls will be so disappointed if I don't take them for their ride,' said Sheila, looking at them as they all sat ready in the dolls' pram.

'Well, can't you take them for a walk instead?' asked Ann. 'You could take their hands, couldn't you, and let them walk with you for once, instead of riding in their pram.'

'Don't be silly!' said Sheila. Toys can't really walk. You know that! I only wish they could. I'd love to see them walking down the road just like you and me. It would be lovely. Well, Ann, I will lend you my pram just for this morning, if you'll be careful with it. And I will take my toys in the wheelbarrow just for once. It will be a change for them.'

So Ann wheeled the pram into her own garden and put her dolls into it. And Sheila fetched her little wheelbarrow and sat her three dolls and her brown teddy-bear in it. It was rather a squash but they didn’t seem to mind.

Off she went to the woods. She thought it would be nice and shady there, and there might be blackberries ripening. It would be nice to pick some.

Sheila peeped over the bush at his basket. It certainly had a very big hole in it and the blackberries were dropping out as fast as he put them in. He really looked ready to cry!

They he saw Sheila and he stared at her in surprise. 'Hello, little girl!' he said. 'Just look at my basket! Isn't it too bad! Now I shan't be able to take any blackberries home to make into jam, and my wife will be so cross with me.'

'I'm very sorry,' said Sheila, politely. 'I haven't basket brought with me or I would have lent you one. I'm just taking my toys for a walk in my wheelbarrow.'

'Wheelbarrow!' said the little man excitedly, running round the bush to see it. 'Just the thing!

Just the thing! Will you lend it to me to carry home my blackberries, little girl? I could put heaps of them into that nice big narrow, and my wife would be so pleased.'

'But what about my dolls?' said Sheila. 'I can carry them all home, you know!'

'Why can't they walk?' asked the little man, at once.

'Don't be silly!' said Sheila, quite cross at having the same question asked her twice in one morning. 'You know toys can't walk. I only wish they could! If they could, I'd lend you my barrow at once!'

'Will you!' cried the little man, in delight.

'Well, I can easily make your toys walk. Dolls and teddy-bear, get out of the barrow and walk home with the little girl!'

And the, to Sheila's great astonishment, the three dolls and the teddy-bear all climbed quickly out of the barrow and ran up to her, holding up hands and paws for her to take. She stared at them in surprise and delight.

'Well, look at that!' she said at last. 'They have all come alive and will walk home with me.

Whatever will people say!'

The little man ran to the empty barrow and wheeled it to his side of the bush. Then he began very quickly to pick blackberries and throw them into the barrow.

'I'll bring your barrow back tomorrow,' he called. 'Thank you so much, little girl. Goodbye!' The toys dragged at Sheila's hands, and she turned to go home again. She called good bye to the busy little man and then took the hands of her two smallest dolls, who in their turn took hands with the third doll and the dear. Then all five walked homewards through the wood. You should have seen how delighted Sheila was! The toys walked very nicely indeed, ad laughed for joy at having such a treat. Sheila met two or three people on the way home and you should have seen how they started! Sheila felt so proud to be taking out a toy family. As she passed Ann's gate Ann came running up _and how she stared to see Sheila and the toys all walking home together!

Sheila told her what had happened, and Ann was delighted.

'It's a reward for you because you were so Kind and lent me your dolls pram!' she said. But look, Sheila, the littlest doll is looking so tired. Here is your pram _let's put the toys in it, for they are not used to such a long walk.'

So into the pram they were all packed, and Sheila whaled them into her own garden. She felt so excited and pleased to think that her toys had walked home with her. She was sure that such a thing had never happened to any other little girl.

In the morning she found her wheelbarrow in the garden, left there by the little man. And what do you think was inside it/ Why, a little tiny pot of blackberry jam, put there for Sheila in return for her kindness in lending her wheel barrow. Isn't she lucky.

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