"If
I had not, the whole house might have been flooded by morning."
"Yes," agreed her husband. "Joe's Nodding Donkey did us a good turn. He
saved a lot of damage. The water in the kitchen will not do much harm,
but if it had flooded the rest of the house it would."
Then the Donkey was put away in the closet where he belonged, together
with the animals from the Noah's Ark.
"How cold and shivery you are, Mr. Donkey," said the Noah's Ark Lamb,
when the Donkey had been placed on the closet shelf, after the flood.
"I guess you'd be cold and shivery, too, if you had been through such an
adventure as just happened to me!" answered the Donkey.
"Oh, tell us about it!" begged the Lion. "We have been quite dull here
all evening, wondering where you were."
So the Donkey told his story of the burst pipe, and after that the
animals went to sleep.
Joe was quite surprised when, the next morning, he was told what had
happened. And when the plumber came to fix the broken pipe Joe showed
the man the Nodding Donkey who had first given warning of the flood.
"He is a fine toy!" said the plumber.
After this Joe's Nodding Donkey had many adventures in his new home. I
wish I had room to tell you all of them, but I can only mention a few.
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