MY TOYS

WE had only home made toys. I made dolls of everything — corn cobs, with the silks for hair, spools, or sometimes a flower that had a conveniently long stem. But I did want a doll buggy, although, I don remember ever having seen one. Revvie and I made me a little wooden wagon that would hold my accumulat family of dolls. One day, while looking at a huge sunflower, I had a brilliant idea, or so I thought. I took the wooden wheels from the toy wagon and fastened them, some way, to the dried sunflower. It made a lovely (loll wagon. By a string fastened to the sunflower, I pulled my grand wagon around, and my dollies had a ride. I played with it happily all day, and was loathe to put it away at night. The next morning when I went to get my treasure, I found to my consternation that the mice had chewed my sunflower until it was no longer useful or pretty. I grieved over it for (lays; but there was no use to make another, for it would meet the same fate.