And you can imagine how glad Joe was to get his Donkey back again.
"I'll never let Frisky break any more of your legs," said Joe, as he
hugged the Donkey to him. "I'll take you to bed with me to-night."
But though Joe was allowed to take his Donkey to bed with him, it was
thought best not to send the toy to the hospital with the little boy,
when he went early the next week.
"Good-by, Nodding Donkey!" called Joe to his toy, as he was driven away;
and when Mrs. Richmond put the mended Donkey away on the closet shelf,
there were tears in her eyes.
The Nodding Donkey knew that something was wrong, but he did not
understand all that was happening. He had seen Joe taken away, and he
saw himself put in the closet with the Noah's Ark animals.
"What is the matter?" asked the Lion. "Is Joe tired of playing with you,
as he grew tired of us?"
"I hope not," said the Nodding Donkey sadly.
But as that day passed, and the next, the Nodding Donkey grew very
lonesome for Joe, for he had learned to love the little lame boy.
CHAPTER X
JOE CAN RUN
About a week after Joe had been taken to the hospital, where he had been
put in a little white bed, with a rosy-cheeked nurse to look after him,
there came a knock on the door of the house where Joe lived, and where
the Nodding Donkey also had his home.
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