"Well, here are some more of those China Cats," went on Miss Geraldine,
as she lifted some white pussies from the box.
"Oh, aren't they darling!" exclaimed her sister. "Do you remember the
first China Cat we had?"
"Indeed I do! It was bought for a little girl named Jennie. And she told
me, only the other day, that her China Cat had had ever so many
adventures!"
"The dear child! The children, I believe, really think their toys are
alive, and can move about!"
"Of course we can, only you don't know it, and you never see us!"
whispered the Stuffed Elephant to himself.
And then he winked one eye at a China Cat--an eye that neither Angelina
nor Geraldine saw blinking. Gracious! how surprised the two ladies would
have been to see a Stuffed Elephant winking one eye at a China Cat.
But stranger things than that are going to happen, I promise you!
"Be careful, Geraldine! Be careful!" suddenly cried Angelina, as her
sister arose from stooping over the box, and started toward the shelves
with an armful of toys.
"What's the matter?"
"Why, you nearly stepped on the Stuffed Elephant!"
"Oh, I'm glad that it didn't really happen! We have only one toy like
him, and it would never do to have him crushed all out of shape before
he is sold for Christmas.
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