“Because it hears the bell with the ear of corn!” laughed the clown. “That’s the time I fooled you! Well, now let’s have another party!” he went on, jumping down from his shelf and pulling the tail of the Monkey on a Stick. “I hope the old rat doesn’t come again,” said the Sawdust Doll. The toys were having grand fun again, and the Bold Tin Soldier was helping the Candy Rabbit up on the back of the White Rocking Horse for a ride, when, all of a sudden, the door of the toy department opened and a big man came in. “Oh! Oh!” shrieked the Sawdust Doll, and the Calico Clown jumped behind the Jack-in-the-Box so quickly that his cymbals rattled on the wooden nose of the Lamb on Wheels. CHAPTER IV IN AN AUTOMOBILE Just as soon, of course, as the door opened and the man came in, all the toys at once stopped moving about, and they stopped talking and having fun. That is because the man looked at them, and you know I told you the moment a real, live person looked at the toys, the Doll, Clown, Rocking Horse, and all the others became just like clothes-pins--they couldn’t and wouldn’t move by themselves. Slowly the big man walked into the middle of the toy department and looked about him. His eyes glanced at the Sawdust Doll, and from her they went to the Tin Soldier. Neither of them so much as wiggled a fingernail. “But I was wondering, all the while,” said the Sawdust Doll afterward, “if that man was a burglar.” “This is queer! When I was on the floor below I thought surely I heard a noise up here! I thought some one was in here trying to get the Christmas things. But that shan’t happen as long as I am watchman here! No, indeed!” The big man looked all around to make sure no bad persons were hiding away to take the toys after he had left. He looked very sharply at the Calico Clown, the man did. “I thought surely I heard the rattle of those cymbals the clown holds,” said the man. “But perhaps it was the wind blowing them, or a rat running over them. There are rats in this store.” The toys knew that very well, for they had seen a large one. And wasn’t it queer that the man had thought he heard the cymbals jingle? “He really did hear them, for I banged them on the Lamb’s nose when I jumped down,” said the Calico Clown afterward. But of course the man did not know that the toys could come to life and have a party among themselves when no one was looking, and so he thought the wind or a rat had made the cymbals tinkle. And when he was gone the Sawdust Doll slowly raised her head from where she had lain down on a shelf and said: “Fancy now! How foolish I was to think he was a robber! He is the good, kind watchman of this store.” “But of course we can’t allow him to see us moving about, or hear us talk, any more than we can let the girls and boys,” said the Calico Clown, and he made such a funny face that the White Rocking Horse swung to and fro in laughter.