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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Raggedy Ann Stories + +Author: Johnny Gruelle + +Illustrator: Johnny Gruelle + +Release Date: April 17, 2006 [EBook #18190] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RAGGEDY ANN STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/title.png.jpg" width="300" height="273" alt="Raggedy Ann Stories Title" title="Raggedy Ann Stories Title" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<h1>RAGGEDY ANN<br />STORIES</h1> + + +<h3>Written & Illustrated by</h3> +<h2>JOHNNY GRUELLE</h2> + + + +<div class="center">LITTLE SIMON<br /> +New York London Toronto Sydney</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/front.jpg" width="300" height="268" alt="frontispiece" title="frontispiece" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="PREFACE_AND_DEDICATION" id="PREFACE_AND_DEDICATION"></a>PREFACE AND DEDICATION</h2> + + +<p>As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the +telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann!</p> + +<p>The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child.</p> + +<p>There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely in +the face in a straightforward, honest manner, a twinkle where her +shoe-button eyes reflect the electric light.</p> + +<p>Evidently Raggedy has been to a "tea party" today, for her face is +covered with chocolate.</p> + +<p>She smiles happily and continuously.</p> + +<p>True, she has been nibbled by mice, who have made nests out of the soft +cotton with which she has been stuffed, but Raggedy smiled just as +broadly when the mice nibbled at her, for her smile is painted on.</p> + +<p>What adventures you must have had, Raggedy!</p> + +<p>What joy and happiness you have brought into this world!</p> + +<p>And no matter what treatment you have received, how patient you have +been!</p> + +<p>What lessons of kindness and fortitude you might teach could you but +talk; you with your wisdom of fifty-nine years. No wonder Rag Dolls are +the best beloved! You are so kindly, so patient, so lovable.</p> + +<p>The more you become torn, tattered and loose-jointed, Rag Dolls, the +more you are loved by children.</p> + +<p>Who knows but that Fairyland is filled with old, lovable Rag +Dolls—soft, loppy Rag Dolls who ride through all the wonders of +Fairyland in the crook of dimpled arms, snuggling close to childish +breasts within which beat hearts filled with eternal sunshine.</p> + +<p>So, to the millions of children and grown-ups who have loved a Rag Doll, +I dedicate these stories of Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<div class='right'> +<span class="smcap">Johnny Gruelle</span>. +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/intro.jpg" width="400" height="93" alt="Marcella" title="Marcella" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION"></a>INTRODUCTION</h2> + + +<p>Marcella liked to play up in the attic at Grandma's quaint old house, +'way out in the country, for there were so many old forgotten things to +find up there.</p> + +<p>One day when Marcella was up in the attic and had played with the old +spinning wheel until she had grown tired of it, she curled up on an old +horse-hair sofa to rest.</p> + +<p>"I wonder what is in that barrel, 'way back in the corner?" she thought, +as she jumped from the sofa and climbed over two dusty trunks to the +barrel standing back under the eaves.</p> + +<p>It was quite dark back there, so when Marcella had pulled a large bundle +of things from the barrel she took them over to the dormer window where +she could see better. There was a funny little bonnet with long white +ribbons. Marcella put it on.</p> + +<p>In an old leather bag she found a number of tin-types of queer looking +men and women in old-fashioned clothes. And there was one picture of a +very pretty little girl with long curls tied tightly back from her +forehead and wearing a long dress and queer pantaloons which reached to +her shoe-tops. And then out of the heap she pulled an old rag doll with +only one shoe-button eye and a painted nose and a smiling mouth. Her +dress was of soft material, blue with pretty little flowers and dots all +over it.</p> + +<p>Forgetting everything else in the happiness of her find, Marcella caught +up the rag doll and ran downstairs to show it to Grandma.</p> + +<p>"Well! Well! Where did you find it?" Grandma cried. "It's old Raggedy +Ann!" she went on as she hugged the doll <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>to her breast. "I had +forgotten her. She has been in the attic for fifty years, I guess! Well! +Well! Dear old Raggedy Ann! I will sew another button on her right +away!" and Grandma went to the machine drawer and got her needle and +thread.</p> + +<p>Marcella watched the sewing while Grandma told how she had played with +Raggedy Ann when she was a little girl.</p> + +<p>"Now!" Grandma laughed, "Raggedy Ann, you have two fine shoe-button eyes +and with them you can see the changes that have taken place in the world +while you have been shut up so long in the attic! For, Raggedy Ann, you +have a new playmate and mistress now, and I hope you both will have as +much happiness together as you and I used to have!"</p> + +<p>Then Grandma gave Raggedy Ann to Marcella, saying very seriously, +"Marcella, let me introduce my very dear friend, Raggedy Ann. Raggedy, +this is my grand-daughter, Marcella!" And Grandma gave the doll a twitch +with her fingers in such a way that the rag doll nodded her head to +Marcella.</p> + +<p>"Oh, Grandma! Thank you ever and ever so much!" Marcella cried as she +gave Grandma a hug and kiss. "Raggedy Ann and I will have just loads of +fun."</p> + +<p>And this is how Raggedy Ann joined the doll family at Marcella's house, +where she began the adventures of Raggedy Ann, told in the following +stories.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/endintro.jpg" width="400" height="141" alt="Marcella and Raggedy Ann" title="Marcella and Raggedy Ann" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + + +<h2><span class="smcap">Contents</span></h2> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#PREFACE_AND_DEDICATION"><b>PREFACE AND DEDICATION</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#INTRODUCTION"><b>INTRODUCTION</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_LEARNS_A_LESSON"><b>RAGGEDY ANN LEARNS A LESSON</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_WASHING"><b>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE WASHING</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Raggedy_Ann_and_the_Kite"><b>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITE</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_RESCUES_FIDO"><b>RAGGEDY ANN RESCUES FIDO</b></a></td></tr> + + +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_PAINTER"><b>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE PAINTER</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANNS_TRIP_ON_THE_RIVER"><b>RAGGEDY ANN'S TRIP ON THE RIVER</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_STRANGE_DOLLS"><b>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE STRANGE DOLLS</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_KITTENS"><b>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITTENS</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_FAIRIES_GIFT"><b>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE FAIRIES' GIFT</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_CHICKENS"><b>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE CHICKENS</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_MOUSE"><b>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE MOUSE</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RAGGEDY_ANNS_NEW_SISTERS"><b>RAGGEDY ANN'S NEW SISTERS</b></a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s1.jpg" width="400" height="179" alt="Marcella and the Dolls" title="Marcella and the Dolls" /> +</div> + +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_LEARNS_A_LESSON" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_LEARNS_A_LESSON"></a>RAGGEDY ANN LEARNS A LESSON</h2> + + +<p>One day the dolls were left all to themselves.</p> + +<p>Their little mistress had placed them all around the room and told them +to be nice children while she was away.</p> + +<p>And there they sat and never even so much as wiggled a finger, until +their mistress had left the room.</p> + +<p>Then the soldier dolly turned his head and solemnly winked at Raggedy +Ann.</p> + +<p>And when the front gate clicked and the dollies knew they were alone in +the house, they all scrambled to their feet.</p> + +<p>"Now let's have a good time!" cried the tin soldier. "Let's all go in +search of something to eat!"</p> + +<p>"Yes! Let's all go in search of something to eat!" cried all the other +dollies.</p> + +<p>"When Mistress had me out playing with her this morning," said Raggedy +Ann, "she carried me by a door near the back of the house and I smelled +something which smelled as if it would taste delicious!"</p> + +<p>"Then you lead the way, Raggedy Ann!" cried the French dolly.</p> + +<p>"I think it would be a good plan to elect Raggedy Ann as our leader on +this expedition!" said the Indian doll.</p> + +<p>At this all the other dolls clapped their hands together and shouted, +"Hurrah! Raggedy Ann will be our leader."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + +<p>So Raggedy Ann, very proud indeed to have the confidence and love of all +the other dollies, said that she would be very glad to be their leader.</p> + +<p>"Follow me!" she cried as her wobbly legs carried her across the floor +at a lively pace.</p> + +<p>The other dollies followed, racing about the house until they came to +the pantry door. "This is the place!" cried Raggedy Ann, and sure +enough, all the dollies smelled something which they knew must be very +good to eat.</p> + +<p>But none of the dollies was tall enough to open the door and, although +they pushed and pulled with all their might, the door remained tightly +closed.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 257px;"> +<img src="images/s1a-tb.jpg" width="257" height="400" alt="Raggedy Ann can think clearly now." title="Raggedy Ann can think clearly now." /> +</div> +<p>The dollies were talking and pulling and pushing and every once in a +while one would fall over and the others would step on her in their +efforts to open the door. Finally Raggedy Ann drew away from the others +and sat down on the floor.</p> + +<p>When the other dollies discovered Raggedy Ann sitting there, running her +rag hands through her yarn hair, they knew she was thinking.</p> + +<p>"Sh! Sh!" they said to each other and quietly went over near Raggedy Ann +and sat down in front of her.</p> + +<p>"There must be a way to get inside," said Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>"Raggedy says there must be a way to get inside!" cried all the dolls.</p> + +<p>"I can't seem to think clearly to-day," said Raggedy Ann. "It feels as +if my head were ripped."</p> + +<p>At this the French doll ran to Raggedy Ann and took off her bonnet. +"Yes, there is a rip in your head, Raggedy!" she said and pulled a pin +from her skirt and pinned up Raggedy's head. "It's not a very neat job, +for I got some puckers in it!" she said.</p> + +<p>"Oh that is ever so much better!" cried Raggedy Ann. "Now I can think +quite clearly."</p> + +<p>"Now Raggedy can think quite clearly!" cried all the dolls.</p> + +<p>"My thoughts must have leaked out the rip before!" said Raggedy Ann.</p> + + +<p>"They must have leaked out before, dear Raggedy!" cried all the other +dolls.</p> + +<p>"Now that I can think so clearly," said Raggedy Ann, "I think the door +must be locked and to get in we must unlock it!"</p> + +<p>"That will be easy!" said the Dutch doll who says "Mamma" when he is +tipped backward and forward, "For we will have the brave tin soldier +shoot the key out of the lock!"</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s1b-tb.jpg" width="400" height="246" alt="The Brave Tin Soldier" title="The Brave Tin Soldier" /> +</div> + +<p>"I can easily do that!" cried the tin soldier, as he raised his gun.</p> + +<p>"Oh, Raggedy Ann!" cried the French dolly. "Please do not let him +shoot!"</p> + +<p>"No!" said Raggedy Ann. "We must think of a quieter way!"</p> + +<p>After thinking quite hard for a moment, Raggedy Ann jumped up and said: +"I have it!" And she caught up the Jumping Jack and held him up to the +door; then Jack slid up his stick and unlocked the door.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> + +<p>Then the dollies all pushed and the door swung open.</p> + +<p>My! Such a scramble! The dolls piled over one another in their desire to +be the first at the goodies.</p> + +<p>They swarmed upon the pantry shelves and in their eagerness spilled a +pitcher of cream which ran all over the French dolly's dress.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s1c-tb.jpg" width="400" height="305" alt="Having tea" title="Having tea" /> +</div> + +<p>The Indian doll found some corn bread and dipping it in the molasses he +sat down for a good feast.</p> + +<p>A jar of raspberry jam was overturned and the dollies ate of this until +their faces were all purple.</p> + +<p>The tin soldier fell from the shelf three times and bent one of his tin +legs, but he scrambled right back up again.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p><div class="figright" style="width: 256px;"> +<img src="images/s1d-tb.jpg" width="256" height="400" alt="Shame on you, Raggedy Ann!" title="Shame on you, Raggedy Ann!" /> +</div> + +<p>Never had the dolls had so much fun and excitement, and they had all +eaten their fill when they heard the click of the front gate.</p> + + +<p>They did not take time to climb from the shelves, but all rolled or +jumped off to the floor and scrambled back to their <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>room as fast as +they could run, leaving a trail of bread crumbs and jam along the way.</p> + +<p>Just as their mistress came into the room the dolls dropped in whatever +positions they happened to be in.</p> + +<p>"This is funny!" cried Mistress. "They were all left sitting in their +places around the room! I wonder if Fido has been shaking them up!" Then +she saw Raggedy Ann's face and picked her up. "Why Raggedy Ann, you are +all sticky! I do believe you are covered with jam!" and Mistress tasted +Raggedy Ann's hand. "Yes! It's JAM! Shame on you, Raggedy Ann! You've +been in the pantry and all the others, too!" and with this the dolls' +mistress dropped Raggedy Ann on the floor and left the room.</p> + +<p>When she came back she had on an apron and her sleeves were rolled up.</p> + +<p>She picked up all the sticky dolls and putting them in a basket she +carried them out under the apple tree in the garden.</p> + +<p>There she had placed her little tub and wringer and she took the dolls +one at a time, and scrubbed them with a scrubbing brush and soused them +up and down and this way and that in the soap suds until they were +clean.</p> + +<p>Then she hung them all out on the clothes-line in the sunshine to dry.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s1c2.jpg" width="400" height="137" alt="Hanging in a row." title="Hanging in a row." /> +</div> + + +<p>There the dolls hung all day, swinging and twisting about as the breeze +swayed the clothes-line.</p> + +<p>"I do believe she scrubbed my face so hard she wore off my smile!" said +Raggedy Ann, after an hour of silence.</p> + + + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>"No, it is still there!" said the tin solder, as the wind twisted him +around so he could see Raggedy. "But I do believe my arms will never +work without squeaking, they feel so rusted," he added.</p> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 255px;"> +<img src="images/s1e-tb.jpg" width="255" height="400" alt="A proper tea-party" title="A proper tea-party" /> +</div> +<p>Just then the wind twisted the little Dutch doll and loosened his +clothes-pin, so that he fell to the grass below with a sawdusty bump and +as he rolled over he said, "Mamma!" in a squeaky voice.</p> + + +<p>Late in the afternoon the back door opened and the little mistress came +out with a table and chairs. After setting the table she took all the +dolls from the line and placed them about the table.</p> + +<p>They had lemonade with grape jelly in it, which made it a beautiful +lavender color, and little "Baby-teeny-weeny-cookies" with powdered +sugar on them.</p> + +<p>After this lovely dinner, the dollies were taken in the house, where +they had their hair brushed and nice clean nighties put on.</p> + +<p>Then they were placed in their beds and Mistress kissed each one good +night and tiptoed from the room.</p> + +<p>All the dolls lay as still as mice for a few minutes, then Raggedy Ann +raised up on her cotton-stuffed elbows and said: "I have been thinking!"</p> + +<p>"Sh!" said all the other dollies, "Raggedy has been thinking!"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Raggedy Ann, "I have been thinking; our mistress gave us the +nice dinner out under the trees to teach us a lesson. She wished us to +know that we could have had all the goodies we wished, whenever we +wished, if we had behaved ourselves. And our lesson was that we must +never take without asking what we could always have for the asking! So +let us all remember and try never again to do anything which might cause +those who love us any unhappiness!"</p> + +<p>"Let us all remember," chimed all the other dollies.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + +<p>And Raggedy Ann, with a merry twinkle in her shoe-button eyes, lay back +in her little bed, her cotton head filled with thoughts of love and +happiness.</p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 258px;"> +<img src="images/s1f-tb.jpg" width="258" height="350" alt="Dripping dry" title="Dripping dry" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s3a.jpg" width="400" height="174" alt="Raggedy Ann and the Kite" title="Raggedy Ann and the Kite" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_WASHING" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_WASHING"></a>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE WASHING</h2> + + +<p>"Why, Dinah! How could you!"</p> + +<p>Mamma looked out of the window and saw Marcella run up to Dinah and take +something out of her hand and then put her head in her arm and commence +crying.</p> + +<p>"What is the trouble, Dear?" Mamma asked, as she came out the door and +knelt beside the little figure shaking with sobs.</p> + +<p>Marcella held out Raggedy Ann. But such a comical looking Raggedy Ann!</p> + +<p>Mamma had to smile in spite of her sympathy, for Raggedy Ann looked +ridiculous!</p> + +<p>Dinah's big eyes rolled out in a troubled manner, for Marcella had +snatched Raggedy Ann from Dinah's hand as she cried, "Why, Dinah! How +could you?"</p> + +<p>Dinah could not quite understand and, as she dearly loved Marcella, she +was troubled.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann was not in the least downhearted and while she felt she must +look very funny she continued to smile, but with a more expansive smile +than ever before.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 256px;"> +<img src="images/s3b.jpg" width="256" height="400" alt="In the wash" title="In the wash" /> +</div> + +<p>Raggedy Ann knew just how it all happened and her remaining shoe-button +eye twinkled.</p> + +<p>She remembered that morning when Marcella came to the <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>nursery to take +the nighties from the dolls and dress them she had been cross.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann thought at the time "Perhaps she had climbed out of bed +backwards!" For Marcella complained to each doll as she dressed them.</p> + +<p>And when it came Raggedy's time to be dressed, Marcella was very cross +for she had scratched her finger on a pin when dressing the French doll.</p> + +<p>So, when Marcella heard the little girl next door calling to her, she +ran out of the nursery and gave Raggedy Ann a toss from her as she ran.</p> + +<p>Now it happened Raggedy lit in the clothes hamper and there she lay all +doubled up in a knot.</p> + +<p>A few minutes afterwards Dinah came through the hall with an armful of +clothes and piled them in the hamper on top of Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>Then Dinah carried the hamper out in back of the house where she did the +washing.</p> + +<p>Dinah dumped all the clothes into the boiler and poured water on them.</p> + +<p>The boiler was then placed upon the stove.</p> + +<p>When the water began to get warm, Raggedy Ann wiggled around and climbed +up amongst the clothes to the top of the boiler to peek out. There was +too much steam and she could see nothing. For that matter, Dinah could +not see Raggedy Ann, either, on account of the steam.</p> + +<p>So Dinah, using an old broom handle, stirred the clothes in the boiler +and the clothes and Raggedy Ann were stirred and whirled around until +all were thoroughly boiled.</p> + +<p>When Dinah took the clothes a piece at a time from the boiler and +scrubbed them, she finally came upon Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>Now Dinah did not know but that Marcella had placed Raggedy in the +clothes hamper to be washed, so she soaped Raggedy well and scrubbed her +up and down over the rough wash-board.</p> + + + +<p>Two buttons from the back of Raggedy's dress came off <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>and one of +Raggedy Ann's shoe-button eyes was loosened as Dinah gave her face a +final scrub.</p> + + + +<p>Then Dinah put Raggedy Ann's feet in the wringer and turned the crank. +It was hard work getting Raggedy through the wringer, but Dinah was very +strong. And of course it happened! Raggedy Ann came through as flat as a +pancake.</p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s3c.jpg" width="400" height="238" alt="Through the wringer" title="Through the wringer" /> +</div> +<p>It was just then, that Marcella returned and saw Raggedy.</p> + +<p>"Why, Dinah! How could you!" Marcella had sobbed as she snatched the +flattened Raggedy Ann from the bewildered Dinah's hand.</p> + +<p>Mamma patted Marcella's hand and soon coaxed her to quit sobbing.</p> + +<p>When Dinah explained that the first she knew of Raggedy being in the +wash was when she took her from the boiler, Marcella began crying again.</p> + +<p>"It was all my fault, Mamma!" she cried. "I remember now that I threw +dear old Raggedy Ann from me as I ran out the door and she must have +fallen in the clothes hamper! Oh dear! Oh dear!" and she hugged Raggedy +Ann tight.</p> + +<p>Mamma did not tell Marcella that she had been cross and <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>naughty for she +knew Marcella felt very sorry. Instead Mamma put her arms around her and +said,</p> + +<p>"Just see how Raggedy Ann takes it! She doesn't seem to be unhappy!"</p> + +<p>And when Marcella brushed her tears away and looked at Raggedy Ann, flat +as a pancake and with a cheery smile upon her painted face, she had to +laugh. And Mamma and Dinah had to laugh, too, for Raggedy Ann's smile +was almost twice as broad as it had been before.</p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s3d.jpg" width="400" height="309" alt="Back on the line" title="Back on the line" /> +</div> +<p>"Just let me hang Miss Raggedy on the line in the bright sunshine for +half an hour," said Dinah, "and you won't know her when she comes off!"</p> + +<p>So Raggedy Ann was pinned to the clothes-line, out in the bright +sunshine, where she swayed and twisted in the breeze and listened to the +chatter of the robins in a nearby tree.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + +<p>Every once in a while Dinah went out and rolled and patted Raggedy until +her cotton stuffing was soft and dry and fluffy and her head and arms +and legs were nice and round again.</p> + +<p>Then she took Raggedy Ann into the house and showed Marcella and Mamma +how clean and sweet she was.</p> + +<p>Marcella took Raggedy Ann right up to the nursery and told all the dolls +just what had happened and how sorry she was that she had been so cross +and peevish when she dressed them. And while the dolls said never a word +they looked at their little mistress with love in their eyes as she sat +in the little red rocking chair and held Raggedy Ann tightly in her +arms.</p> + +<p>And Raggedy Ann's remaining shoe-button eye looked up at her little +mistress in rather a saucy manner, but upon her face was the same old +smile of happiness, good humor and love.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s3e.jpg" width="400" height="306" alt="Rocking Raggedy Ann" title="Rocking Raggedy Ann" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s4a.jpg" width="400" height="172" alt="Raggedy Ann and the Kite" title="Raggedy Ann and the Kite" /> +</div> + +<h2><a name="Raggedy_Ann_and_the_Kite" id="Raggedy_Ann_and_the_Kite"></a>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITE</h2> + + +<p>Raggedy Ann watched with interest the preparations.</p> + +<p>A number of sticks were being fastened together with strings and covered +with light cloth.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann heard some of the boys talk of "The Kite," so Raggedy Ann +knew this must be a kite.</p> + +<p>When a tail had been fastened to the kite and a large ball of heavy +twine tied to the front, one of the boys held the kite up in the air and +another boy walked off, unwinding the ball of twine.</p> + +<p>There was a nice breeze blowing, so the boy with the twine called, "Let +'er go" and started running.</p> + +<p>Marcella held Raggedy up so that she could watch the kite sail through +the air.</p> + +<p>How nicely it climbed! But suddenly the kite acted strangely, and as all +the children shouted advice to the boy with the ball of twine, the kite +began darting this way and that, and finally making four or five +loop-the-loops, it crashed to the ground.</p> + +<p>"It needs more tail on it!" one boy shouted.</p> + +<p>Then the children asked each other where they might get more rags to +fasten to the tail of the kite.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 251px;"> +<img src="images/s4b.jpg" width="251" height="400" alt="Flying with the kite" title="Flying with the kite" /> +</div> +<p>"Let's tie Raggedy Ann to the tail!" suggested Marcella. "I know she +would enjoy a trip 'way up in the sky!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + +<p>The boys all shouted with delight at this new suggestion. So Raggedy Ann +was tied to the tail of the kite.</p> + +<p>This time the kite rose straight in the air and remained steady. The boy +with the ball of twine unwound it until the kite and Raggedy Ann were +'way, 'way up and far away. How Raggedy Ann enjoyed being up there! She +could see for miles and miles! And how tiny the children looked!</p> + +<p>Suddenly a great puff of wind came and carried Raggedy Ann streaming +'way out behind the kite! She could hear the wind singing on the twine +as the strain increased.</p> + +<p>Suddenly Raggedy Ann felt something rip. It was the rag to which she was +tied. As each puff of wind caught her the rip widened.</p> + +<p>When Marcella watched Raggedy Ann rise high above the field, she +wondered how much Raggedy Ann enjoyed it, and wished that she, too, +might have gone along. But after the kite had been up in the air for +five or ten minutes, Marcella grew restless. Kites were rather tiresome. +There was more fun in tea parties out under the apple tree.</p> + +<p>"Will you please pull down the kite now?" she asked the boy with the +twine. "I want Raggedy Ann."</p> + +<p>"Let her ride up there!" the boy replied. "We'll bring her home when we +pull down the kite! We're going to get another ball of twine and let her +go higher!"</p> + +<p>Marcella did not like to leave Raggedy Ann with the boys, so she sat +down upon the ground to wait until they pulled down the kite.</p> + +<p>But while Marcella watched Raggedy Ann, a dot in the sky, she could not +see the wind ripping the rag to which Raggedy was tied.</p> + +<p>Suddenly the rag parted and Raggedy Ann went sailing away as the wind +caught in her skirts.</p> + +<p>Marcella jumped from the ground, too surprised to say anything. The +kite, released from the weight of Raggedy Ann began darting and swooping +to the ground.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s4c.jpg" width="400" height="245" alt="Where is Raggedy Ann?" title="Where is Raggedy Ann?" /> +</div> + +<p>"We'll get her for you!" some of the boys said when they saw Marcella's +troubled face, and they started running in the direction Raggedy Ann had +fallen. Marcella and the other girls ran with them. They ran, and they +ran, and they ran, and at last they found the kite upon the ground with +one of the sticks broken, but they could not find Raggedy Ann anywhere.</p> + +<p>"She must have fallen almost in your yard!" a boy said to Marcella, "for +the kite was directly over here when the doll fell!"</p> + +<p>Marcella was heartbroken. She went in the house and lay on the bed. +Mamma went out with the children and tried to find Raggedy Ann, but +Raggedy Ann was nowhere to be seen.</p> + +<p>When Daddy came home in the evening he tried to find Raggedy, but met +with no success. Marcella had eaten hardly any dinner, nor could she be +comforted by Mamma or Daddy. The other dolls in the nursery lay +forgotten and were not put to bed that night, for Marcella lay and +sobbed and tossed about her bed.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + +<p>Finally she said a little prayer for Raggedy Ann, and went to sleep. And +as she slept Marcella dreamed that the fairies came and took Raggedy Ann +with them to fairyland for a visit, and then sent Raggedy Ann home to +her. She awakened with a cry. Of course Mamma came to her bed right away +and said that Daddy would offer a reward in the morning for the return +of Raggedy.</p> + +<p>"It was all my fault, Mamma!" Marcella said. "I should not have offered +the boys dear old Raggedy Ann to tie on the tail of the kite! But I just +know the fairies will send her back."</p> + +<p>Mamma took her in her arms and soothed her with cheering words, although +she felt indeed that Raggedy Ann was truly lost and would never be found +again.</p> + +<p>Now, where do you suppose Raggedy Ann was all this time?</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s4d.jpg" width="400" height="306" alt="Falling" title="Falling" /> +</div> + +<p>When Raggedy Ann dropped from the kite, the wind <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>caught in her skirts +and carried her along until she fell in the fork of the large elm tree +directly over Marcella's house. When Raggedy Ann fell with a thud, face +up in the fork of the tree, two robins who had a nest near by flew +chattering away.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 255px;"> +<img src="images/s4e.jpg" width="255" height="400" alt="Raggedy Ann in the tree" title="Raggedy Ann in the tree" /> +</div> + +<p>Presently the robins returned and quarreled at Raggedy Ann for laying so +close to their nest, but Raggedy Ann only smiled at them and did not +move.</p> + +<p>When the robins quieted down and quit their quarreling, one of them +hopped up closer to Raggedy Ann in order to investigate.</p> + +<p>It was Mamma Robin. She called to Daddy Robin and told him to come. "See +the nice yarn! We could use it to line the nest with," she said.</p> + +<p>So the robins hopped closer to Raggedy Ann and asked if they might have +some of her yarn hair to line their nest. Raggedy Ann smiled at them. So +the two robins pulled and tugged at Raggedy Ann's yarn hair until they +had enough to line their nest nice and soft.</p> + +<p>Evening came and the robins sang their good night songs, and Raggedy Ann +watched the stars come out, twinkle all night and disappear in the +morning light. In the morning the robins again pulled yarn from Raggedy +Ann's head, and loosened her so she could peep over the side of the +limb, and when the sun came up Raggedy Ann saw she was in the trees in +her own yard.</p> + +<p>Now before she could eat any breakfast, Marcella started out to find +Raggedy Ann. And, it was Marcella herself who found her. And this is how +she did it.</p> + +<p>Mamma Robin had seen Marcella with Raggedy Ann out in the yard many +times, so she began calling "Cheery! Cheery!" and Daddy Robin started +calling "Cheery! Cheery! Cheer up! Cheer up! Cheerily Cheerily! Cheery! +Cheery!" And Marcella looking up into the tree above the house to see +the robins, discovered Raggedy Ann peeping over the limb at her.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p> + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> + +<p>Oh, how her heart beat with happiness. "Here is Raggedy Ann," she +shouted.</p> + +<p>And Mamma and Daddy came out and saw Raggedy smiling at them, and Daddy +got the clothes prop and climbed out of the attic window and poked +Raggedy Ann out of the tree and she fell right into Marcella's arms +where she was hugged in a tight embrace.</p> + +<p>"You'll never go up on a kite again, Raggedy Ann!" said Marcella, "for I +felt so lost without you. I will never let you leave me again."</p> + +<p>So Raggedy Ann went into the house and had breakfast with her little +mistress and Mamma and Daddy smiled at each other when they peeped +through the door into the breakfast room, for Raggedy Ann's smile was +wide and very yellow. Marcella, her heart full of happiness, was feeding +Raggedy Ann part of her egg.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s4f.jpg" width="400" height="333" alt="Marcella has Raggedy Ann back" title="Marcella has Raggedy Ann back" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s5a.jpg" width="400" height="174" alt="Raggedy Ann is awake" title="Raggedy Ann is awake" /> +</div> + +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_RESCUES_FIDO" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_RESCUES_FIDO"></a>RAGGEDY ANN RESCUES FIDO</h2> + + +<p>It was almost midnight and the dolls were asleep in their beds; all +except Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>Raggedy lay there, her shoe-button eyes staring straight up at the +ceiling. Every once in a while Raggedy Ann ran her rag hand up through +her yarn hair. She was thinking.</p> + +<p>When she had thought for a long, long time, Raggedy Ann raised herself +on her wabbly elbows and said, "I've thought it all out."</p> + +<p>At this the other dolls shook each other and raised up saying, "Listen! +Raggedy has thought it all out!"</p> + +<p>"Tell us what you have been thinking, dear Raggedy," said the tin +soldier. "We hope they were pleasant thoughts."</p> + +<p>"Not very pleasant thoughts!" said Raggedy, as she brushed a tear from +her shoe-button eyes. "You haven't seen Fido all day, have you?"</p> + +<p>"Not since early this morning," the French dolly said.</p> + +<p>"It has troubled me," said Raggedy, "and if my head was not stuffed with +lovely new white cotton, I am sure it would have ached with the worry! +When Mistress took me into the living-room this afternoon she was +crying, and I heard her mamma say, 'We will find him! He is sure to come +home soon!' and I knew they were talking of Fido! He must be lost!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + +<p>The tin soldier jumped out of bed and ran over to Fido's basket, his tin +feet clicking on the floor as he went. "He is not here," he said.</p> + +<p>"When I was sitting in the window about noon-time," said the Indian +doll, "I saw Fido and a yellow scraggly dog playing out on the lawn and +they ran out through a hole in the fence!"</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 254px;"> +<img src="images/s5b.jpg" width="254" height="400" alt="Dolls leaving through the window" title="Dolls leaving through the window" /> +</div> +<p>"That was Priscilla's dog, Peterkins!" said the French doll.</p> + +<p>"I know poor Mistress is very sad on account of Fido," said the Dutch +doll, "because I was in the dining-room at supper-time and I heard her +daddy tell her to eat her supper and he would go out and find Fido; but +I had forgotten all about it until now."</p> + +<p>"That is the trouble with all of us except Raggedy Ann!" cried the +little penny doll, in a squeaky voice, "She has to think for all of us!"</p> + +<p>"I think it would be a good plan for us to show our love for Mistress +and try and find Fido!" exclaimed Raggedy.</p> + + +<p>"It is a good plan, Raggedy Ann!" cried all the dolls. "Tell us how to +start about it."</p> + +<p>"Well, first let us go out upon the lawn and see if we can track the +dogs!" said Raggedy.</p> + +<p>"I can track them easily!" the Indian doll said, "for Indians are good +at trailing things!"</p> + +<p>"Then let us waste no more time in talking!" said Raggedy Ann, as she +jumped from bed, followed by the rest.</p> + +<p>The nursery window was open, so the dolls helped each other up on the +sill and then jumped to the soft grass below. They fell in all sorts of +queer attitudes, but of course the fall did not hurt them.</p> + +<p>At the hole in the fence the Indian doll picked up the trail of the two +dogs, and the dolls, stringing out behind, followed him until they came +to Peterkins' house. Peterkins was surprised to see the strange little +figures in white nighties come stringing up the path to the dog house.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s5c.jpg" width="400" height="240" alt="In the doghouse" title="In the doghouse" /> +</div> + +<p>Peterkins was too large to sleep in the nursery, so he had a nice cozy +dog-house under the grape arbor.</p> + +<p>"Come in," Peterkins said when he saw and recognized the dolls, so all +the dollies went into Peterkins' house and sat about while Raggedy told +him why they had come.</p> + +<p>"It has worried me, too!" said Peterkins, "but I had no way of telling +your mistress where Fido was, for she cannot understand dog language! +For you see," Peterkins continued, "Fido and I were having the grandest +romp over in the park when a great big man with a funny thing on the end +of a stick came running towards us. We barked at him and Fido thought he +was trying to play with us and went up too close and do you know, that +wicked man caught Fido in the thing at the end of the stick and carried +him to a wagon and dumped him in with a lot of other dogs!"</p> + +<p>"<i>The Dog Catcher!</i>" cried Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>"Yes!" said Peterkins, as he wiped his eyes with his paws. "It was the +dog catcher! For I followed the wagon at a distance and I saw him put +all the dogs into a big wire pen, so that none could get out!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Then you know the way there, Peterkins?" asked Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>"Yes, I can find it easily," Peterkins said.</p> + +<p>"Then show us the way!" Raggedy Ann cried, "for we must try to rescue +Fido."</p> + +<p>So Peterkins led the way up alleys and across streets, the dolls all +pattering along behind him. It was a strange procession. Once a strange +dog ran out at them, but Peterkins told him to mind his own business and +the strange dog returned to his own yard.</p> + +<p>At last they came to the dog catcher's place. Some of the dogs in the +pen were barking at the moon and others were whining and crying.</p> + + +<p>There was Fido, all covered with mud, and his pretty red ribbon dragging +on the ground. My, but he was glad to see the dolls and Peterkins! All +the dogs came to the side of the <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span>pen and twisted their heads from side +to side, gazing in wonder at the queer figures of the dolls.</p> + +<p>"We will try and let you out," said Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>At this all the dogs barked joyfully.</p> + +<p>Then Raggedy Ann, the other dolls and Peterkins went to the gate.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s5d.jpg" width="400" height="314" alt="Rescuing Fido" title="Rescuing Fido" /> +</div> + +<p>The catch was too high for Raggedy Ann to reach, but Peterkins held +Raggedy Ann in his mouth and stood up on his hind legs so that she could +raise the catch.</p> + +<p>When the catch was raised, the dogs were so anxious to get out they +pushed and jumped against the gate so hard it flew open, knocking +Peterkins and Raggedy Ann into the mud. Such a yapping and barking was +never heard in the neighborhood as when the dogs swarmed out of the +enclosure, jumping over one another and scrambling about in the mad rush +out the gate.</p> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 254px;"> +<img src="images/s5e.jpg" width="254" height="400" alt="Back in through the window" title="Back in through the window" /> +</div> +<p>Fido picked himself up from where he had been rolled by the large dogs +and helped Raggedy Ann to her feet. He, Peterkins, and all the dolls ran +after the pack of dogs, turning the corner just as the dog catcher came +running out of the house in his nightgown to see what was causing the +trouble.</p> + +<p>He stopped in astonishment when he saw the string of dolls in white +nighties pattering down the alley, for he could not imagine what they +were.</p> + + +<p>Well, you may be sure the dolls thanked Peterkins for his kind +assistance and they and Fido ran on home, for a faint light was +beginning to show in the east where the sun was getting ready to come +up.</p> + +<p>When they got to their own home they found an old chair out in the yard +and after a great deal of work they finally dragged it to the window and +thus managed to get into the nursery again.</p> + +<p>Fido was very grateful to Raggedy Ann and the other dolls and before he +went to his basket he gave them each a lick on the cheek.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> + +<p>The dolls lost no time in scrambling into bed and pulling up the covers, +for they were very sleepy, but just as they were dozing off, Raggedy Ann +raised herself and said, "If my legs and arms were not stuffed with nice +clean cotton I feel sure they would ache, but being stuffed with nice +clean white cotton, they do not ache and I could not feel happier if my +body were stuffed with sunshine, for I know how pleased and happy +Mistress will be in the morning when she discovers Fido asleep in his +own little basket, safe and sound at home."</p> + +<p>And as the dollies by this time were all asleep, Raggedy Ann pulled the +sheet up to her chin and smiled so hard she ripped two stitches out of +the back of her rag head.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s5f.jpg" width="400" height="397" alt="Back in bed" title="Back in bed" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s6a.jpg" width="400" height="174" alt="On top of one another" title="On top of one another" /> +</div> +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_PAINTER" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_PAINTER"></a>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE PAINTER</h2> + + +<p>When housecleaning time came around, Mistress' mamma decided that she +would have the nursery repainted and new paper put upon the walls. That +was why all the dolls happened to be laid helter-skelter upon one of the +high shelves.</p> + +<p>Mistress had been in to look at them and wished to put them to bed, but +as the painters were coming again in the early morning, Mamma thought it +best that their beds be piled in the closet.</p> + +<p>So the dolls' beds were piled into the closet, one on top of another and +the dolls were placed upon the high shelf.</p> + +<p>When all was quiet that night, Raggedy Ann who was on the bottom of the +pile of dolls spoke softly and asked the others if they would mind +moving along the shelf.</p> + +<p>"The cotton in my body is getting mashed as flat as a pancake!" said +Raggedy Ann. And although the tin soldier was piled so that his foot was +pressed into Raggedy's face, she still wore her customary smile.</p> + +<p>So the dolls began moving off to one side until Raggedy Ann was free to +sit up.</p> + +<p>"Ah, that's a great deal better!" she said, stretching her arms and legs +to get the kinks out of them, and patting her dress into shape.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Well, I'll be glad when morning comes!" she said finally, "for I know +Mistress will take us out in the yard and play with us under the trees."</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 254px;"> +<img src="images/s6b.jpg" width="254" height="400" alt="Tossed in the air" title="Tossed in the air" /> +</div><p>So the dolls sat and talked until daylight, when the painters came to +work.</p> + +<p>One of the painters, a young fellow, seeing the dolls, reached up and +took Raggedy Ann down from the shelf.</p> + +<p>"Look at this rag doll, Jim," he said to one of the other painters, +"She's a daisy," and he took Raggedy Ann by the hands and danced with +her while he whistled a lively tune. Raggedy Ann's heels hit the floor +thumpity-thump and she enjoyed it immensely.</p> + +<p>The other dolls sat upon the shelf and looked straight before them, for +it would never do to let grown-up men know that dolls were really alive.</p> + +<p>"Better put her back upon the shelf," said one of the other men. "You'll +have the little girl after you! The chances are that she likes that old +rag doll better than any of the others!"</p> + +<p>But the young painter twisted Raggedy Ann into funny attitudes and +laughed and laughed as she looped about. Finally he got to tossing her +up in the air and catching her. This was great fun for Raggedy and as +she sailed up by the shelf the dolls all smiled at her, for it pleased +them whenever Raggedy Ann was happy.</p> + +<p>But the young fellow threw Raggedy Ann up into the air once too often +and when she came down he failed to catch her and she came down +<i>splash</i>, head first into a bucket of oily paint.</p> + +<p>"I told you!" said the older painter, "and now you are in for it!"</p> + +<p>"My goodness! I didn't mean to do it!" said the young fellow, "What had +I better do with her?"</p> + +<p>"Better put her back on the shelf!" replied the other.</p> + +<p>So Raggedy was placed back upon the shelf and the paint ran from her +head and trickled down upon her dress.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s6c.jpg" width="400" height="246" alt="Covered with paint" title="Covered with paint" /> +</div> + +<p>After breakfast, Mistress came into the nursery and saw Raggedy all +covered with paint and she began crying.</p> + +<p>The young painter felt sorry and told her how it had happened.</p> + +<p>"If you will let me," he said, "I will take her home with me and will +clean her up tonight and will bring her back day after tomorrow."</p> + +<p>So Raggedy was wrapped in a newspaper that evening and carried away.</p> + +<p>All the dolls felt sad that night without Raggedy Ann near them.</p> + +<p>"Poor Raggedy! I could have cried when I saw her all covered with +paint!" said the French doll.</p> + +<p>"She didn't look like our dear old Raggedy Ann at all!" said the tin +soldier, who wiped the tears from his eyes so that they would not run +down on his arms and rust them.</p> + +<p>"The paint covered her lovely smile and nose and you could not see the +laughter in her shoe-button eyes!" said the Indian doll.</p> + +<p>And so the dolls talked that night and the next. But in <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span>the daytime +when the painters were there, they kept very quiet.</p> + +<p>The second day Raggedy was brought home and the dolls were all anxious +for night to come so that they could see and talk with Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>At last the painters left and the house was quiet, for Mistress had been +in and placed Raggedy on the shelf with the other dolls.</p> + +<p>"Tell us all about it, Raggedy dear!" the dolls cried.</p> + +<p>"Oh I am so glad I fell in the paint!" cried Raggedy, after she had +hugged all the dolls, "For I have had the happiest time. The painter +took me home and told his Mamma how I happened to be covered with paint +and she was very sorry. She took a rag and wiped off my shoe-button eyes +and then I saw that she was a very pretty, sweet-faced lady and she got +some cleaner and wiped off most of the paint on my face.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s6d.jpg" width="400" height="311" alt="Telling the story" title="Telling the story" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p> + +<p>"But you know," Raggedy continued, "the paint had soaked through my rag +head and had made the cotton inside all sticky and soggy and I could not +think clearly. And my yarn hair was all matted with paint.</p> + +<p>"So the kind lady took off my yarn hair and cut the stitches out of my +head, and took out all the painty cotton.</p> + +<p>"It was a great relief, although it felt queer at first and my thoughts +seemed scattered.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 251px;"> +<img src="images/s6e.jpg" width="251" height="400" alt="On the line again" title="On the line again" /> +</div> +<p>"She left me in her work-basket that night and hung me out upon the +clothes-line the next morning when she had washed the last of the paint +off.</p> + +<p>"And while I hung out on the clothes-line, what do you think?"</p> + +<p>"We could never guess!" all the dolls cried.</p> + +<p>"Why a dear little Jenny Wren came and picked enough cotton out of me to +make a cute little cuddly nest in the grape arbor!"</p> + +<p>"Wasn't that sweet!" cried all the dolls.</p> + +<p>"Yes indeed it was!" replied Raggedy Ann, "It made me very happy. Then +when the lady took me in the house again she stuffed me with lovely nice +new cotton, all the way from my knees up and sewed me up and put new +yarn on my head for hair and—and—and it's a secret!" said Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>"Oh tell us the secret!" cried all the dolls, as they pressed closer to +Raggedy. "Well, I know you will not tell anyone who would not be glad to +know about it, so I will tell you the secret and why I am wearing my +smile a trifle broader!" said Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>The dolls all said that Raggedy Ann's smile was indeed a quarter of an +inch wider on each side.</p> + + + +<p>"When the dear lady put the new white cotton in my body," said Raggedy +Ann "she went to the cupboard and came back with a paper bag. And she +took from the bag ten or fifteen little candy hearts with mottos on them +and she hunted through the candy hearts until she found a beautiful +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>red one which she sewed up in me with the cotton! So that is the +secret, and that is why I am so happy! Feel here," said Raggedy Ann. All +the dolls could feel Raggedy Ann's beautiful new candy heart and they +were very happy for her.</p> + +<p>After all had hugged each other good night and had cuddled up for the +night, the tin soldier asked, "Did you have a chance to see what the +motto on your new candy heart was, Raggedy Ann?"</p> + +<p>"Oh yes," replied Raggedy Ann, "I was so happy I forgot to tell you. It +had printed upon it in nice blue letters, 'I LOVE YOU.'"</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s6f.jpg" width="400" height="377" alt="A haircut" title="A haircut" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s7a.jpg" width="400" height="172" alt="In the orchard" title="In the orchard" /> +</div> +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANNS_TRIP_ON_THE_RIVER" id="RAGGEDY_ANNS_TRIP_ON_THE_RIVER"></a>RAGGEDY ANN'S TRIP ON THE RIVER</h2> + + +<p>When Marcella had a tea party out in the orchard, of course all of the +dolls were invited. Raggedy Ann, the tin soldier, the Indian doll and +all the others—even the four little penny dolls in the spool box. After +a lovely tea party with ginger cookies and milk, of course the dolls +were very sleepy, at least Marcella thought so, so she took all except +Raggedy Ann into the house and put them to bed for the afternoon nap. +Then Marcella told Raggedy Ann to stay there and watch the things.</p> + +<p>As there was nothing else to do, Raggedy Ann waited for Marcella to +return. And as she watched the little ants eating cookie crumbs Marcella +had thrown to them, she heard all of a sudden the patter of puppy feet +behind her. It was Fido.</p> + +<p>The puppy dog ran up to Raggedy Ann and twisted his head about as he +looked at her. Then he put his front feet out and barked in Raggedy +Ann's face. Raggedy Ann tried to look very stern, but she could not hide +the broad smile painted on her face.</p> + +<p>"Oh, you want to play, do you?" the puppy dog barked, as he jumped at +Raggedy Ann and then jumped back again.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 253px;"> +<img src="images/s7b.jpg" width="253" height="400" alt="Into the river" title="Into the river" /> +</div> +<p>The more Raggedy Ann smiled, the livelier Fido's antics <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span>became, until +finally he caught the end of her dress and dragged her about.</p> + +<p>This was great fun for the puppy dog, but Raggedy Ann did not enjoy it. +She kicked and twisted as much as she could, but the puppy dog thought +Raggedy was playing.</p> + +<p>He ran out the garden gate and down the path across the meadow, every +once in a while stopping and pretending he was very angry. When he +pretended this, Fido would give Raggedy Ann a great shaking, making her +yarn head hit the ground "ratty-tat-tat." Then he would give his head a +toss and send Raggedy Ann high in the air where she would turn over two +or three times before she reached the ground.</p> + +<p>By this time, she had lost her apron and now some of her yarn hair was +coming loose.</p> + +<p>As Fido neared the brook, another puppy dog came running across the +foot-bridge to meet him. "What have you there, Fido?" said the new puppy +dog as he bounced up to Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>"This is Raggedy Ann," answered Fido. "She and I are having a lovely +time playing."</p> + +<p>You see, Fido really thought Raggedy enjoyed being tossed around and +whirled high up in the air. But of course she didn't. However, the game +didn't last much longer. As Raggedy Ann hit the ground the new puppy dog +caught her dress and ran with her across the bridge, Fido barking close +behind him.</p> + +<p>In the center of the bridge, Fido caught up with the new puppy dog and +they had a lively tug-of-war with Raggedy Ann stretched between then. As +they pulled and tugged and flopped Raggedy Ann about, somehow she fell +over the side of the bridge into the water.</p> + +<p>The puppy dogs were surprised, and Fido was very sorry indeed, for he +remembered how good Raggedy Ann had been to him and how she had rescued +him from the dog-pound. But the current carried Raggedy Ann right along +and all Fido could do was to run along the bank and bark.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s7c.jpg" width="400" height="240" alt="Floating" title="Floating" /> +</div> + +<p>Now, you would have thought Raggedy Ann would sink, but no, she floated +nicely, for she was stuffed with clean white cotton and the water didn't +soak through very quickly.</p> + +<p>After a while, the strange puppy and Fido grew tired of running along +the bank and the strange puppy scampered home over the meadow, with his +tail carried gaily over his back as if he had nothing to be ashamed of. +But Fido walked home very sorry indeed. His little heart was broken to +think that he had caused Raggedy Ann to be drowned.</p> + +<p>But Raggedy Ann didn't drown—not a bit of it. In fact, she even went to +sleep on the brook, for the motion of the current was very soothing as +it carried her along—just like being rocked by Marcella.</p> + +<p>So, sleeping peacefully, Raggedy Ann drifted along with the current +until she came to a pool where she lodged against a large stone.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s7d.jpg" width="400" height="309" alt="On a stone" title="On a stone" /> +</div> +<p>Raggedy Ann tried to climb upon the stone, but by this time the water +had thoroughly soaked through Raggedy Ann's nice, clean, white cotton +stuffing and she was so heavy she could not climb.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p> + +<p>So there she had to stay until Marcella and Daddy came along and found +her.</p> + +<p>You see, they had been looking for her. They had found pieces of her +apron all along the path and across the meadow where Fido and the +strange puppy dog had shaken them from Raggedy Ann. So they followed the +brook until they found her.</p> + +<p>When Daddy fished Raggedy Ann from the water, Marcella hugged her so +tightly to her breast the water ran from Raggedy Ann and dripped all +over Marcella's apron. But Marcella was so glad to find Raggedy Ann +again she didn't mind it a bit. She just hurried home and took off all +of Raggedy Ann's wet clothes and placed her on a little red chair in +front of the oven door, and then brought all of the other dolls in and +read a fairy tale to them while Raggedy Ann steamed and dried.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p> + +<p>When Raggedy Ann was thoroughly dry, Mamma said she thought the cake +must be finished and she took from the oven a lovely chocolate cake and +gave Marcella a large piece to have another tea party with.</p> + +<p>That night when all the house was asleep, Raggedy Ann raised up in bed +and said to the dolls who were still awake, "I am so happy I do not feel +a bit sleepy. Do you know, I believe the water soaked me so thoroughly +my candy heart must have melted and filled my whole body, and I do not +feel the least bit angry with Fido for playing with me so roughly!"</p> + +<p>So all the other dolls were happy, too, for happiness is very easy to +catch when we love one another and are sweet all through.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s7e.jpg" width="400" height="375" alt="Sweet all through" title="Sweet all through" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s8a.jpg" width="400" height="172" alt="In ungraceful attitudes" title="In ungraceful attitudes" /> +</div> +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_STRANGE_DOLLS" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_STRANGE_DOLLS"></a>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE STRANGE DOLLS</h2> + + +<p>Raggedy Ann lay just as Marcella had dropped her—all sprawled out with +her rag arms and legs twisted in ungraceful attitudes.</p> + +<p>Her yarn hair was twisted and lay partly over her face, hiding one of +her shoe-button eyes.</p> + +<p>Raggedy gave no sign that she had heard, but lay there smiling at the +ceiling.</p> + +<p>Perhaps Raggedy Ann knew that what the new dolls said was true.</p> + +<p>But sometimes the truth may hurt and this may have been the reason +Raggedy Ann lay there so still.</p> + +<p>"Did you ever see such an ungainly creature!"</p> + +<p>"I do believe it has shoe buttons for eyes!"</p> + +<p>"And yarn hair!"</p> + +<p>"Mercy, did you ever see such feet!"</p> + +<p>The Dutch doll rolled off the doll sofa and said "Mamma" in his quavery +voice, he was so surprised at hearing anyone speak so of beloved Raggedy +Ann—dear Raggedy Ann, she of the candy heart, whom all the dolls loved.</p> + +<p>Uncle Clem was also very much surprised and offended. He walked up in +front of the two new dolls and looked them sternly in the eyes, but he +could think of nothing to say so he pulled at his yarn mustache.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 257px;"> +<img src="images/s8b.jpg" width="257" height="400" alt="Annabel-Lee and Thomas" title="Annabel-Lee and Thomas" /> +</div> +<p>Marcella had only received the two new dolls that morning. They had come +in the morning mail and were presents from an aunt.</p> + +<p>Marcella had named the two new dolls Annabel-Lee and Thomas, after her +aunt and uncle.</p> + +<p>Annabel-Lee and Thomas were beautiful dolls and must have cost heaps and +heaps of shiny pennies, for both were handsomely dressed and had <i>real</i> +hair!</p> + +<p>Annabel's hair was of a lovely shade of auburn and Thomas' was golden +yellow.</p> + +<p>Annabel was dressed in soft, lace-covered silk and upon her head she +wore a beautiful hat with long silk ribbons tied in a neat bow-knot +beneath her dimpled chin.</p> + +<p>Thomas was dressed in an Oliver Twist suit of dark velvet with a lace +collar. Both he and Annabel wore lovely black slippers and short +stockings.</p> + +<p>They were sitting upon two of the little red doll chairs where Marcella +had placed them and where they could see the other dolls.</p> + +<p>When Uncle Clem walked in front of them and pulled his mustache they +laughed outright. "Tee-Hee-Hee!" they snickered, "He has holes in his +knees!"</p> + +<p>Quite true. Uncle Clem was made of worsted and the moths had eaten his +knees and part of his kiltie. He had a kiltie, you see, for Uncle Clem +was a Scotch doll.</p> + +<p>Uncle Clem shook, but he felt so hurt he could think of nothing to say.</p> + +<p>He walked over and sat down beside Raggedy Ann and brushed her yarn hair +away from her shoe-button eye.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s8c.jpg" width="400" height="241" alt="Hurt feelings" title="Hurt feelings" /> +</div> + +<p>The tin soldier went over and sat beside them.</p> + +<p>"Don't you mind what they say, Raggedy!" he said, "They do not know you +as we do!"</p> + +<p>"We don't care to know her!" said Annabel-Lee as she primped her dress, +"She looks like a scarecrow!"</p> + +<p>"And the Soldier must have been made with a can opener!" laughed +Thomas.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> + + +<p>"You should be ashamed of yourselves!" said the French dolly, as she +stood before Annabel and Thomas, "You will make all of us sorry that you +have joined our family if you continue to poke fun at us and look down +upon us. We are all happy here together and share in each others' +adventures and happiness."</p> + +<p>Now, that night Marcella did not undress the two new dolls, for she had +no nighties for them, so she let them sit up in the two little red doll +chairs so they would not muss their clothes. "I will make nighties for +you tomorrow!" she said as she kissed them good night. Then she went +over and gave Raggedy Ann a good night hug. "Take good care of all my +children, Raggedy!" she said as she went out.</p> + +<p>Annabel and Thomas whispered together, "Perhaps we have been too hasty +in our judgment!" said Annabel-Lee. "This Raggedy Ann seems to be a +favorite with the mistress and with all the dolls!"</p> + +<p>"There must be a reason!" replied Thomas, "I am beginning to feel sorry +that we spoke of her looks. One really cannot help one's looks after +all."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p> + +<p>Now, Annabel-Lee and Thomas were very tired after their long journey and +soon they fell asleep and forgot all about the other dolls.</p> + +<p>When they were sound asleep, Raggedy Ann slipped quietly from her bed +and awakened the tin soldier and Uncle Clem and the three tiptoed to the +two beautiful new dolls.</p> + +<p>They lifted them gently so as not to awaken them and carried them to +Raggedy Ann's bed.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann tucked them in snugly and lay down upon the hard floor.</p> + +<p>The tin soldier and Uncle Clem both tried to coax Raggedy Ann into +accepting their bed (they slept together), but Raggedy Ann would not +hear of it.</p> + +<p>"I am stuffed with nice soft cotton and the hard floor does not bother +me at all!" said Raggedy.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s8d.jpg" width="400" height="308" alt="Uncle Clem offers to share" title="Uncle Clem offers to share" /> +</div> + +<p>At daybreak the next morning Annabel and Thomas awak<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span>ened to find +themselves in Raggedy Ann's bed and as they raised up and looked at each +other each knew how ashamed the other felt, for they knew Raggedy Ann +had generously given them her bed.</p> + +<p>There Raggedy Ann lay; all sprawled out upon the hard floor, her rag +arms and legs twisted in ungraceful attitudes.</p> + +<p>"How good and honest she looks!" said Annabel. "It must be her +shoe-button eyes!"</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 256px;"> +<img src="images/s8e.jpg" width="256" height="400" alt="The new dollies share" title="The new dollies share" /> +</div> +<p>"How nicely her yarn hair falls in loops over her face!" exclaimed +Thomas, "I did not notice how pleasant her face looked last night!"</p> + +<p>"The others seem to love her ever and ever so much!" mused Annabel. "It +must be because she is so kind."</p> + +<p>Both new dolls were silent for a while, thinking deeply.</p> + +<p>"How do you feel?" Thomas finally asked.</p> + +<p>"Very much ashamed of myself!" answered Annabel, "And you, Thomas?"</p> + +<p>"As soon as Raggedy Ann awakens, I shall tell her just how much ashamed +I am of myself and if she can, I want her to forgive me!" Thomas said.</p> + +<p>"The more I look at her, the better I like her!" said Annabel.</p> + +<p>"I am going to kiss her!" said Thomas.</p> + +<p>"You'll awaken her if you do!" said Annabel.</p> + +<p>But Thomas climbed out of bed and kissed Raggedy Ann on her painted +cheek and smoothed her yarn hair from her rag forehead.</p> + +<p>And Annabel-Lee climbed out of bed, too, and kissed Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>Then Thomas and Annabel-Lee gently carried Raggedy Ann and put her in +her own bed and tenderly tucked her in, and then took their seats in the +two little red chairs.</p> + +<p>After a while Annabel said softly to Thomas, "I feel ever and ever so +much better and happier!"</p> + + + +<p>"So do I!" Thomas replied. "It's like a whole lot of <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span>sunshine coming +into a dark room, and I shall always try to keep it there!"</p> + +<p>Fido had one fuzzy white ear sticking up over the edge of his basket and +he gave his tail a few thumps against his pillow.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann lay quietly in bed where Thomas and Annabel had tucked her. +And as she smiled at the ceiling, her candy heart (with "I LOVE YOU" +written on it) thrilled with contentment, for, as you have probably +guessed, Raggedy Ann had not been asleep at all!</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 284px;"> +<img src="images/s8f.jpg" width="284" height="300" alt="Tucked in bed" title="Tucked in bed" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s9a.jpg" width="400" height="169" alt="Turkey to eat" title="Turkey to eat" /> +</div> +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_KITTENS" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_KITTENS"></a>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITTENS</h2> + + +<p>Raggedy Ann had been away all day.</p> + +<p>Marcella had come early in the morning and dressed all the dolls and +placed them about the nursery.</p> + +<p>Some of the dolls had been put in the little red chairs around the +little doll table. There was nothing to eat upon the table except a +turkey, a fried egg and an apple, all made of plaster of paris and +painted in natural colors. The little teapot and other doll dishes were +empty, but Marcella had told them to enjoy their dinner while she was +away.</p> + +<p>The French dolly had been given a seat upon the doll sofa and Uncle Clem +had been placed at the piano.</p> + +<p>Marcella picked up Raggedy Ann and carried her out of the nursery when +she left, telling the dolls to "be real good children, while Mamma is +away!"</p> + +<p>When the door closed, the tin soldier winked at the Dutch-boy doll and +handed the imitation turkey to the penny dolls. "Have some nice turkey?" +he asked.</p> + +<p>"No thank you!" the penny dolls said in little penny-doll, squeaky +voices, "We have had all we can eat!"</p> + +<p>"Shall I play you a tune?" asked Uncle Clem of the French doll.</p> + +<p>At this all the dolls laughed, for Uncle Clem could not begin to play +any tune. Raggedy Ann was the only doll who <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span>had ever taken lessons, and +she could play Peter-Peter-Pumpkin-Eater with one hand.</p> + +<p>In fact, Marcella had almost worn out Raggedy Ann's right hand teaching +it to her.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 256px;"> +<img src="images/s9b.jpg" width="256" height="400" alt="Fido has a secret" title="Fido has a secret" /> +</div> + +<p>"Play something lively!" said the French doll, as she giggled behind her +hand, so Uncle Clem began hammering the eight keys on the toy piano with +all his might until a noise was heard upon the stairs.</p> + +<p>Quick as a wink, all the dolls took the same positions in which they had +been placed by Marcella, for they did not wish really truly people to +know that they could move about.</p> + +<p>But it was only Fido. He put his nose in the door and looked around.</p> + +<p>All the dolls at the table looked steadily at the painted food, and +Uncle Clem leaned upon the piano keys looking just as unconcerned as +when he had been placed there.</p> + +<p>Then Fido pushed the door open and came into the nursery wagging his +tail.</p> + +<p>He walked over to the table and sniffed, in hopes Marcella had given the +dolls real food and that some would still be left.</p> + +<p>"Where's Raggedy Ann?" Fido asked, when he had satisfied himself that +there was no food.</p> + +<p>"Mistress took Raggedy Ann and went somewhere!" all the dolls answered +in chorus.</p> + +<p>"I've found something I must tell Raggedy Ann about!" said Fido, as he +scratched his ear.</p> + +<p>"Is it a secret?" asked the penny dolls.</p> + +<p>"Secret nothing," replied Fido, "It's kittens!"</p> + +<p>"How lovely!" cried all the dolls, "Really live kittens?"</p> + +<p>"Really live kittens!" replied Fido, "Three little tiny ones, out in the +barn!"</p> + +<p>"Oh, I wish Raggedy Ann was here!" cried the French doll. "She would +know what to do about it!"</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s9d.jpg" width="400" height="236" alt="Fido runs to tell news" title="Fido runs to tell news" /> +</div> + + + +<p>"That's why I wanted to see her," said Fido, as he thumped his tail on +the floor, "I did not know there were any <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span>kittens and I went into the +barn to hunt for mice and the first thing I knew Mamma Cat came bouncing +right at me with her eyes looking green! I tell you I hurried out of +there!"</p> + + + +<p>"How did you know there were any kittens then?" asked Uncle Clem.</p> + +<p>"I waited around the barn until Mamma Cat went up to the house and then +I slipped into the barn again, for I knew there must be something inside +or she would not have jumped at me that way! We are always very +friendly, you know." Fido continued. "And what was my surprise to find +three tiny little kittens in an old basket, 'way back in a dark corner!"</p> + +<p>"Go get them, Fido, and bring them up so we can see them!" said the tin +soldier.</p> + +<p>"Not me!" said Fido, "If I had a suit of tin clothes on like you have I +might do it, but you know cats can scratch very hard if they want to!"</p> + +<p>"We will tell Raggedy when she comes in!" said the French doll, and then +Fido went out to play with a neighbor dog.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> + +<p>So when Raggedy Ann had been returned to the nursery the dolls could +hardly wait until Marcella had put on their nighties and left them for +the night.</p> + +<p>Then they told Raggedy Ann all about the kittens.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann jumped from her bed and ran over to Fido's basket; he wasn't +there.</p> + +<p>Then Raggedy suggested that all the dolls go out to the barn and see the +kittens. This they did easily, for the window was open and it was but a +short jump to the ground.</p> + +<p>They found Fido out near the barn watching a hole.</p> + +<p>"I was afraid something might disturb them," he said, "for Mamma Cat +went away about an hour ago."</p> + +<p>All the dolls, with Raggedy Ann in the lead, crawled through the hole +and ran to the basket.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s9e.jpg" width="400" height="303" alt="Waiting to see" title="Waiting to see" /> +</div> + +<p>Just as Raggedy Ann started to pick up one of the kittens <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span>there was a +lot of howling and yelping and Fido came bounding through the hole with +Mamma Cat behind him. When Mamma Cat caught up with Fido he would yelp.</p> + +<p>When Fido and Mamma Cat had circled the barn two or three times Fido +managed to find the hole and escape to the yard; then Mamma Cat came +over to the basket and saw all the dolls.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 256px;"> +<img src="images/s9f.jpg" width="256" height="400" alt="Raggedy Ann and a kitten" title="Raggedy Ann and a kitten" /> +</div> +<p>"I'm s'prised at you, Mamma Cat!" said Raggedy Ann, "Fido has been +watching your kittens for an hour while you were away. He wouldn't hurt +them for anything!"</p> + +<p>"I'm sorry, then," said Mamma Cat.</p> + +<p>"You must trust Fido, Mamma Cat!" said Raggedy Ann, "because he loves +you and anyone who loves you can be trusted!"</p> + +<p>"That's so!" replied Mamma Cat. "Cats love mice, too, and I wish the +mice trusted us more!"</p> + +<p>The dolls all laughed at this joke.</p> + +<p>"Have you told the folks up at the house about your dear little +kittens?" Raggedy Ann asked.</p> + +<p>"Oh, my, no!" exclaimed Mamma Cat. "At the last place I lived the people +found out about my kittens and do you know, all the kittens disappeared! +I intend keeping this a secret!"</p> + +<p>"But all the folks at this house are very kindly people and would dearly +love your kittens!" cried all the dolls.</p> + +<p>"Let's take them right up to the nursery!" said Raggedy Ann, "And +Mistress can find them there in the morning!"</p> + +<p>"How lovely!" said all the dolls in chorus. "Do, Mamma Cat! Raggedy Ann +knows, for she is stuffed with nice clean white cotton and is very +wise!"</p> + +<p>So after a great deal of persuasion, Mamma Cat finally consented. +Raggedy Ann took two of the kittens and carried them to the house while +Mamma Cat carried the other.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann wanted to give the kittens her bed, but Fido, who was +anxious to prove his affection, insisted that Mamma Cat and the kittens +should have his nice soft basket.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p> + +<p>The dolls could hardly sleep that night; they were so anxious to see +what Mistress would say when she found the dear little kittens in the +morning.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann did not sleep a wink, for she shared her bed with Fido and +he kept her awake whispering to her.</p> + +<p>In the morning when Marcella came to the nursery, the first thing she +saw was the three little kittens.</p> + +<p>She cried out in delight and carried them all down to show to Mamma and +Daddy. Mamma Cat went trailing along, arching her back and purring with +pride as she rubbed against all the chairs and doors.</p> + +<p>Mamma and Daddy said the kittens could stay in the nursery and belong to +Marcella, so Marcella took them back to Fido's basket while she hunted +names for them out of a fairy tale book.</p> + +<p>Marcella finally decided upon three names; Prince Charming for the white +kitty, Cinderella for the Maltese and Princess Golden for the kitty with +the yellow stripes.</p> + +<p>So that is how the three little kittens came to live in the nursery.</p> + +<p>And it all turned out just as Raggedy Ann had said, for her head was +stuffed with clean white cotton, and she could think exceedingly wise +thoughts.</p> + +<p>And Mamma Cat found out that Fido was a very good friend, too. She grew +to trust him so much she would even let him help wash the kittens' +faces.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/s9g.jpg" width="300" height="102" alt="Kittens in bonnets" title="Kittens in bonnets" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/s10a.jpg" width="300" height="162" alt="Fido in bed" title="Fido in bed" /> +</div> +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_FAIRIES_GIFT" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_FAIRIES_GIFT"></a>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE FAIRIES' GIFT</h2> + + +<p>All the dolls were tucked snugly in their little doll-beds for the night +and the large house was very still.</p> + +<p>Every once in a while Fido would raise one ear and partly open one eye, +for his keen dog sense seemed to tell him that something was about to +happen.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 257px;"> +<img src="images/s10b.jpg" width="257" height="400" alt="Fido wakes Raggedy Ann" title="Fido wakes Raggedy Ann" /> +</div> +<p>Finally he opened both eyes, sniffed into the air and, getting out of +his basket and shaking himself, he trotted across the nursery to Raggedy +Ann's bed.</p> + +<p>Fido put his cold nose in Raggedy Ann's neck. She raised her head from +the little pillow.</p> + +<p>"Oh! It's you, Fido!" said Raggedy Ann. "I dreamed the tin soldier put +an icicle down my neck!"</p> + +<p>"I can't sleep," Fido told Raggedy Ann. "I feel that something is about +to happen!"</p> + +<p>"You have been eating too many bones lately, Fido, and they keep you +awake," Raggedy replied.</p> + +<p>"No, it isn't that. I haven't had any bones since the folks had beef +last Sunday. It isn't that. Listen, Raggedy!"</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann listened.</p> + +<p>There was a murmur as if someone were singing, far away.</p> + +<p>"What is it?" asked Fido.</p> + +<p>"Sh!" cautioned Raggedy Ann, "It's music."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was indeed music, the most beautiful music Raggedy Ann had ever +heard.</p> + +<p>It grew louder, but still seemed to be <i>far</i> away.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann and Fido could hear it distinctly and it sounded as if +hundreds of voices were singing in unison.</p> + +<p>"Please don't howl, Fido," Raggedy Ann said as she put her two rag arms +around the dog's nose. Fido usually "sang" when he heard music.</p> + +<p>But Fido did not sing this time; he was filled with wonder. It seemed as +if something very nice was going to happen.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s10c.jpg" width="400" height="244" alt="Fairies singing" title="Fairies singing" /> +</div> +<p>Raggedy Ann sat upright in bed. The room was flooded with a strange, +beautiful light and the music came floating in through the nursery +window.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann hopped from her bed and ran across the floor, trailing the +bed clothes behind her. Fido followed close behind and together they +looked out the window across the flower garden.</p> + +<p>There among the flowers were hundreds of tiny beings, some playing on +tiny reed instruments and flower horns, while others sang. This was the +strange, wonderful music Raggedy and Fido had heard.</p> + +<p>"It's the Fairies!" said Raggedy Ann. "To your basket quick, Fido! They +are coming this way!" And Raggedy Ann ran back to her bed, with the bed +clothes trailing behind her.</p> + +<p>Fido gave three jumps and he was in his basket, pretending he was sound +asleep, but one little black eye was peeping through a chink in the +side.</p> + +<p>Raggedy jumped into her bed and pulled the covers to her chin, but lay +so that her shoe-button eyes could see towards the window.</p> + + + +<p>Little Fairy forms radiant as silver came flitting into the nursery, +singing in far away voices. They carried a little bundle. A beautiful +light came from this bundle, and to Raggedy Ann and Fido it seemed like +sunshine and moon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span>shine mixed. It was a soft mellow light, just the +sort of light you would expect to accompany Fairy Folk.</p> + + + +<p>As Raggedy watched, her candy heart went pitty-pat against her cotton +stuffing, for she saw a tiny pink foot sticking out of the bundle of +light.</p> + +<p>The Fairy troop sailed across the nursery and through the door with +their bundle and Raggedy Ann and Fido listened to their far away music +as they went down the hall.</p> + +<p>Presently the Fairies returned without the bundle and disappeared +through the nursery window.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann and Fido again ran to the window and saw the Fairy troop +dancing among the flowers.</p> + +<p>The light from the bundle still hung about the nursery and a strange +lovely perfume floated about.</p> + +<p>When the Fairies' music ceased and they had flown away, Raggedy Ann and +Fido returned to Raggedy's bed to think it all out.</p> + +<p>When old Mister Sun peeped over the garden wall and into the nursery, +and the other dolls awakened, Raggedy Ann and Fido were still puzzled.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p> + +<p>"What is it, Raggedy Ann?" asked the tin soldier and Uncle Clem, in one +voice.</p> + +<p>Before Raggedy Ann could answer, Marcella came running into the nursery, +gathered up all the dolls in her arms, and ran down the hall, Fido +jumping beside her and barking shrilly.</p> + +<p>"Be quiet!" Marcella said to Fido, "It's asleep and you might awaken +it!"</p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s10d.jpg" width="400" height="307" alt="The bundle the fairies brought" title="The bundle the fairies brought" /> +</div> +<p>Mamma helped Marcella arrange all the dolls in a circle around the bed +so that they could all see what was in the bundle.</p> + +<p>Mamma gently pulled back the soft covering and the dolls saw a tiny +little fist as pink as coral, a soft little face with a cunning tiny +pink nose, and a little head as bald as the French dolly's when her hair +came off.</p> + +<p>My, how the dollies all chattered when they were once again left alone +in the nursery!</p> + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p> + +<p>"A dear cuddly baby brother for Mistress!" said Uncle Clem.</p> + +<p>"A beautiful bundle of love and Fairy Sunshine for everybody in the +house!" said Raggedy Ann, as she went to the toy piano and joyously +played "Peter-Peter-Pumpkin-Eater" with one rag hand.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 248px;"> +<img src="images/s10e.jpg" width="248" height="300" alt="Dollies chatting" title="Dollies chatting" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s11a.jpg" width="400" height="199" alt="Raggedy Ann on fence" title="Raggedy Ann on fence" /> +</div> +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_CHICKENS" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_CHICKENS"></a>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE CHICKENS</h2> + + +<p>When Marcella was called into the house she left Raggedy sitting on the +chicken yard fence. "Now you sit quietly and do not stir," Marcella told +Raggedy Ann, "If you move you may fall and hurt yourself!"</p> + +<p>So, Raggedy Ann sat quietly, just as Marcella told her, but she smiled +at the chickens for she had fallen time and again and it had never hurt +her in the least. She was stuffed with nice soft cotton, you see.</p> + +<p>So, there she sat until a tiny little humming-bird, in search of flower +honey hummed close to Raggedy Ann's head and hovered near the tall +Hollyhocks.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann turned her rag head to see the humming-bird and lost her +balance—<i>plump!</i> she went, down amongst the chickens.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 256px;"> +<img src="images/s11b.jpg" width="256" height="400" alt="Raggedy Ann and the rooster" title="Raggedy Ann and the rooster" /> +</div> +<p>The chickens scattered in all directions, all except Old Ironsides, the +rooster.</p> + +<p>He ruffled his neck feathers and put his head down close to the ground, +making a queer whistling noise as he looked fiercely at Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>But Raggedy Ann only smiled at Old Ironsides, the rooster, and ran her +rag hand through her yarn hair for she did not fear him.</p> + +<p>And then something strange happened, for when she made <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span>this motion the +old rooster jumped up in the air and kicked his feet out in front, +knocking Raggedy Ann over and over.</p> + +<p>When Raggedy Ann stopped rolling she waved her apron at the rooster and +cried, "Shoo!" but instead of "shooing," Old Ironsides upset her again.</p> + +<p>Now, two old hens who had been watching the rooster jump at Raggedy ran +up and as one old hen placed herself before the rooster, the other old +hen caught hold of Raggedy's apron and dragged her into the +chicken-coop.</p> + +<p>It was dark inside and Raggedy could not tell what was going on as she +felt herself being pulled up over the nests.</p> + +<p>But, finally Raggedy could sit up, for the old hen had quit pulling her, +and as her shoe-button eyes were very good, she soon made out the shape +of the old hen in front of her.</p> + +<p>"My! that's the hardest work I have done in a long time!" said the old +hen, when she could catch her breath. "I was afraid Mr. Rooster would +tear your dress and apron!"</p> + +<p>"That was a queer game he was playing, Mrs. Hen," said Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>The old hen chuckled 'way down in her throat, "Gracious me! He wasn't +playing a game, he was fighting you!"</p> + +<p>"Fighting!" cried Raggedy Ann in surprise.</p> + +<p>"Oh yes, indeed!" the old hen answered, "Old Ironsides, the rooster, +thought you intended to harm some of the children chickens and he was +fighting you!"</p> + +<p>"I am sorry that I fell inside the pen, I wouldn't harm anything," +Raggedy Ann said.</p> + +<p>"If we tell you a secret you must promise not to tell your mistress!" +said the old hens.</p> + +<p>"I promise! Cross my candy heart!" said Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>Then the two old hens took Raggedy Ann 'way back in the farthest corner +of the chicken coop. There, in back of a box, they had built two nests +and each old hen had ten eggs in her nest.</p> + +<p>"If your folks hear of it they will take the eggs!" said the hens, "and +then we could not raise our families!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s11c.jpg" width="400" height="240" alt="Raggedy Ann and chickens" title="Raggedy Ann and chickens" /> +</div> + +<p>Raggedy Ann felt the eggs and they were nice and warm.</p> + +<p>"We just left the nests when you fell into the pen!" explained the old +hens.</p> + +<p>"But how can the eggs grow if you sit upon them?" said Raggedy. "If Fido +sits on any of the garden, the plants will not grow, Mistress says!"</p> + +<p>"Eggs are different!" one old hen explained. "In order to make the eggs +hatch properly, we must sit on them three weeks and not let them get +cold at any time!"</p> + +<p>"And at the end of the three weeks do the eggs sprout?" asked Raggedy +Ann.</p> + +<p>"You must be thinking of eggplant!" cried one old hen. "These eggs hatch +at the end of three weeks—they don't sprout—and then we have a lovely +family of soft downy chickies; little puff balls that we can cuddle +under our wings and love dearly!"</p> + +<p>"Have you been sitting upon the eggs very long?" Raggedy asked.</p> + +<p>"Neither one of us has kept track of the time," said one hen. "So we do +not know! You see, we never leave the nests only just once in a while to +get a drink and to eat a little.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span> So we can hardly tell when it is day +and when it is night."</p> + +<p>"We were going out to get a drink when you fell in the pen!" said one +old hen. "Now we will have to sit upon the eggs and warm them up again!"</p> + +<p>The two old hens spread their feathers and nestled down upon the nests.</p> + +<p>"When you get them good and warm, I would be glad to sit upon the eggs +to keep them warm until you get something to eat and drink!" said +Raggedy. So the two old hens walked out of the coop to finish their meal +which had been interrupted by Raggedy's fall and while they were gone, +Raggedy Ann sat quietly upon the warm eggs. Suddenly down beneath her +she heard something go, "Pick, pick!" "I hope it isn't a mouse!" Raggedy +Ann said to herself, when she felt something move. "I wish the old hens +would come back." But when they came back and saw the puzzled expression +on her face, they cried, "What is it?"</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s11e.jpg" width="400" height="311" alt="Raggedy Ann sitting on eggs" title="Raggedy Ann sitting on eggs" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann got to her feet and looked down and there were several +little fluffy, cuddly baby chickies, round as little puff-balls.</p> + +<p>"Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" they cried when Raggedy stepped out of the nest.</p> + +<p>"Baby Chicks!" Raggedy cried, as she stooped and picked up one of the +little puff-balls. "They want to be cuddled!"</p> + +<p>The two old hens, their eyes shining with happiness, got upon the nests +and spread out their soft warm feathers, "The other eggs will hatch +soon!" said they.</p> + +<p>So, for several days Raggedy helped the two hens hatch out the rest of +the chickies and just as they finished, Marcella came inside looking +around.</p> + +<p>"How in the world did you get in here, Raggedy Ann?" she cried. "I have +been looking all about for you! Did the chickens drag you in here?"</p> + +<p>Both old hens down behind the box clucked softly to the chickies beneath +them and Marcella overheard them.</p> + +<p>She lifted the box away and gave a little squeal of surprise and +happiness.</p> + +<p>"Oh you dear old Hennypennies!" she cried, lifting both old hens from +their nests. "You have hidden your nests away back here and now you have +one, two, three, four—twenty chickies!" and as she counted them, +Marcella placed them in her apron; then catching up Raggedy Ann, she +placed her over the new little chickies.</p> + +<p>"Come on, old Hennypennies!" she said, and went out of the coop with the +two old hens clucking at her heels.</p> + +<p>Marcella called Daddy and Daddy rolled two barrels out under one of the +trees and made a nice bed in each. Then he nailed slats across the +front, leaving a place for a door. Each Hennypennie was then given ten +little chickies and shut up in the barrel. And all the dolls were happy +when they heard of Raggedy's adventure and they did not have to wait +long before they were all taken out to see the new chickies.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s12a.jpg" width="400" height="165" alt="Raggedy Ann is angry" title="Raggedy Ann is angry" /> +</div> +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_MOUSE" id="RAGGEDY_ANN_AND_THE_MOUSE"></a>RAGGEDY ANN AND THE MOUSE</h2> + + +<p>Jeanette was a new wax doll, and like Henny, the Dutch doll, she could +say "Mamma" when anyone tipped her backward or forward. She had lovely +golden brown curls of real hair. It could be combed and braided, or +curled or fluffed without tangling, and Raggedy Ann was very proud when +Jeanette came to live with the dolls.</p> + +<p>But now Raggedy Ann was very angry—in fact, Raggedy Ann had just ripped +two stitches out of the top of her head when she took her rag hands and +pulled her rag face down into a frown (but when she let go of the frown +her face stretched right back into her usual cheery smile).</p> + +<p>And <i>you</i> would have been angry, too, for something had happened to +Jeanette.</p> + +<p>Something or someone had stolen into the nursery that night when the +dolls were asleep and nibbled all the wax from Jeanette's beautiful +face—and now all her beauty was gone!</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 256px;"> +<img src="images/s12b.jpg" width="256" height="400" alt="The mouse hole" title="The mouse hole" /> +</div> + +<p>"It really is a shame!" said Raggedy Ann as she put her arms about +Jeanette.</p> + +<p>"Something must be done about it!" said the French doll as she stamped +her little foot.</p> + +<p>"If I catch the culprit, I will—well, I don't know what I will do with +him!" said the tin soldier, who could be very fierce at times, although +he was seldom cross.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Here is the hole he came from!" cried Uncle Clem from the other end of +the nursery. "Come, see!"</p> + +<p>All the dolls ran to where Uncle Clem was, down on his hands and knees.</p> + +<p>"This must be the place!" said Raggedy Ann. "We will plug up the hole +with something, so he will not come out again!"</p> + +<p>The dolls hunted around and brought rags and pieces of paper and pushed +them into the mouse's doorway.</p> + +<p>"I thought I heard nibbling last night," one of the penny dolls said. +"You know I begged for an extra piece of pie last evening, when Mistress +had me at the table and it kept me awake!"</p> + +<p>While the dolls were talking, Marcella ran down-stairs with Jeanette and +told Daddy and Mamma, who came up-stairs with Marcella and hunted around +until they discovered the mouse's doorway.</p> + +<p>"Oh, why couldn't it have chewed on me?" Raggedy Ann asked herself when +she saw Marcella's sorrowful face, for Raggedy Ann was never selfish.</p> + +<p>"Daddy will take Jeanette down-town with him and have her fixed up as +good as new," said Mamma, so Jeanette was wrapped in soft tissue paper +and taken away.</p> + +<p>Later in the day Marcella came bouncing into the nursery with a surprise +for the dolls. It was a dear fuzzy little kitten.</p> + +<p>Marcella introduced the kitten to all the dolls.</p> + +<p>"Her name is Boots, because she has four little white feet!" said +Marcella. So Boots, the happy little creature, played with the penny +dolls, scraping them over the floor and peeping out from behind chairs +and pouncing upon them as if they were mice and the penny dolls enjoyed +it hugely.</p> + +<p>When Marcella was not in the nursery, Raggedy Ann wrestled with Boots +and they would roll over and over upon the floor, Boots with her front +feet around Raggedy Ann's neck and kicking with her hind feet.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p> + +<p>Then Boots would arch her back and pretend she was very angry and walk +sideways until she was close to Raggedy. Then she would jump at her and +over and over they would roll, their heads hitting the floor +bumpity-bump.</p> + +<p>Boots slept in the nursery that night and was lonely for her Mamma, for +it was the first time she had been away from home.</p> + +<p>Even though her bed was right on top of Raggedy Ann, she could not +sleep. But Raggedy Ann was very glad to have Boots sleep with her, even +if she was heavy, and when Boots began crying for her Mamma, Raggedy Ann +comforted her and soon Boots went to sleep.</p> + +<p>One day Jeanette came home. She had a new coating of wax on her face and +she was as beautiful as ever.</p> + +<p>Now, by this time Boots was one of the family and did not cry at night. +Besides Boots was told of the mouse in the corner and how he had eaten +Jeanette's wax, so she promised to sleep with one eye open.</p> + +<p>Late that night when Boots was the only one awake, out popped a tiny +mouse from the hole. Boots jumped after the mouse, and hit against the +toy piano and made the keys tinkle so loudly it awakened the dolls.</p> + +<p>They ran over to where Boots sat growling with the tiny mouse in her +mouth.</p> + +<p>My! how the mouse was squeaking!</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann did not like to hear it squeak, but she did not wish +Jeanette to have her wax face chewed again, either.</p> + +<p>So, Raggedy Ann said to the tiny little mouse, "You should have known +better than to come here when Boots is with us. Why don't you go out in +the barn and live where you will not destroy anything of value?"</p> + +<p>"I did not know!" squeaked the little mouse, "This is the first time I +have ever been here!"</p> + +<p>"Aren't you the little mouse who nibbled Jeanette's wax face?" Raggedy +Ann asked.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p> + +<p>"No!" the little mouse answered. "I was visiting the mice inside the +walls and wandered out here to pick up cake crumbs! I have three little +baby mice at home down in the barn. I have never nibbled at anyone's wax +face!"</p> + +<p>"Are you a Mamma mouse?" Uncle Clem asked.</p> + +<p>"Yes!" the little mouse squeaked, "and if the kitten will let me go I +will run right home to my children and never return again!"</p> + +<p>"Let her go, Boots!" the dolls all cried, "She has three little baby +mice at home! Please let her go!"</p> + +<p>"No, sir!" Boots growled, "This is the first mouse I have ever caught +and I will eat her!" At this the little Mamma mouse began squeaking +louder than ever.</p> + +<p>"If you do not let the Mamma mouse go, Boots, I shall not play with you +again!" said Raggedy Ann.</p> + +<p>"Raggedy will not play with Boots again!" said all of the dolls in an +awed tone. Not to have Raggedy play with them would have been sad, +indeed.</p> + +<p>But Boots only growled.</p> + +<p>The dolls drew to one side, where Raggedy Ann and Uncle Clem whispered +together.</p> + +<p>And while they whispered Boots would let the little Mamma mouse run a +piece, then she would catch it again and box it about between her paws.</p> + +<p>This she did until the poor little Mamma mouse grew so tired it could +scarcely run away from Boots.</p> + +<p>Boots would let it get almost to the hole in the wall before she would +catch it, for she knew it would not escape her.</p> + +<p>As she watched the little mouse crawling towards the hole scarcely able +to move, Raggedy Ann could not keep the tears from her shoe-button eyes.</p> + +<p>Finally as Boots started to spring after the little mouse again, Raggedy +Ann threw her rag arms around the kitten's neck. "Run, Mamma mouse!" +Raggedy Ann cried, as Boots whirled her over and over.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p> + +<p>Uncle Clem ran and pushed the Mamma mouse into the hole and then she was +gone.</p> + +<p>When Raggedy Ann took her arms from around Boots, the kitten was very +angry. She laid her ears back and scratched Raggedy Ann with her claws.</p> + +<p>But Raggedy Ann only smiled—it did not hurt her a bit for Raggedy was +sewed together with a needle and thread and if that did not hurt, how +could the scratch of a kitten? Finally Boots felt ashamed of herself and +went over and lay down by the hole in the wall in hopes the mouse would +return, but the mouse never returned. Even then Mamma mouse was out in +the barn with her children, warning them to beware of kittens and cats.</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann and all the dolls then went to bed and Raggedy had just +dozed off to sleep when she felt something jump upon her bed. It was +Boots. She felt a warm little pink tongue caress her rag cheek. Raggedy +Ann smiled happily to herself, for Boots had curled up on top of Raggedy +Ann and was purring herself to sleep.</p> + +<p>Then Raggedy Ann knew she had been forgiven for rescuing the Mamma mouse +and she smiled herself to sleep and dreamed happily of tomorrow.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s12c.jpg" width="400" height="183" alt="Raggedy Ann with a kitten asleep" title="Raggedy Ann with a kitten asleep" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s13a.jpg" width="400" height="174" alt="Marcella pouring tea" title="Marcella pouring tea" /> +</div> +<h2><a name="RAGGEDY_ANNS_NEW_SISTERS" id="RAGGEDY_ANNS_NEW_SISTERS"></a>RAGGEDY ANN'S NEW SISTERS</h2> + + +<p>Marcella was having a tea party up in the nursery when Daddy called to +her, so she left the dollies sitting around the tiny table and ran down +stairs carrying Raggedy Ann with her.</p> + +<p>Mama, Daddy and a strange man were talking in the living room and Daddy +introduced Marcella to the stranger.</p> + +<p>The stranger was a large man with kindly eyes and a cheery smile, as +pleasant as Raggedy Ann's.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 255px;"> +<img src="images/s13b.jpg" width="255" height="400" alt="The Ocean Fairies and Freddy" title="The Ocean Fairies and Freddy" /> +</div> +<p>He took Marcella upon his knee and ran his fingers through her curls as +he talked to Daddy and Mamma, so, of course, Raggedy Ann liked him from +the beginning. "I have two little girls," he told Marcella. "Their names +are Virginia and Doris, and one time when we were at the sea-shore they +were playing in the sand and they covered up Freddy, Doris' boy-doll in +the sand. They were playing that Freddy was in bathing and that he +wanted to be covered with the clean white sand, just as the other +bathers did. And when they had covered Freddy they took their little +pails and shovels and went farther down the beach to play and forgot all +about Freddy.</p> + +<p>"Now when it came time for us to go home, Virginia and Doris remembered +Freddy and ran down to get him, but the tide had come in and Freddy was +'way out under the water <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span>and they could not find him. Virginia and +Doris were very sad and they talked of Freddy all the way home."</p> + +<p>"It was too bad they forgot Freddy," said Marcella.</p> + +<p>"Yes, indeed it was!" the new friend replied as he took Raggedy Ann up +and made her dance on Marcella's knee. "But it turned out all right +after all, for do you know what happened to Freddy?"</p> + +<p>"No, what did happen to him?" Marcella asked.</p> + +<p>"Well, first of all, when Freddy was covered with the sand, he enjoyed +it immensely. And he did not mind it so much when the tide came up over +him, for he felt Virginia and Doris would return and get him.</p> + +<p>"But presently Freddy felt the sand above him move as if someone was +digging him out. Soon his head was uncovered and he could look right up +through the pretty green water, and what do you think was happening? The +Tide Fairies were uncovering Freddy!</p> + +<p>"When he was completely uncovered, the Tide Fairies swam with Freddy +'way out to the Undertow Fairies. The Undertow Fairies took Freddy and +swam with him 'way out to the Roller Fairies. The Roller Fairies carried +Freddy up to the surface and tossed him up to the Spray Fairies who +carried him to the Wind Fairies."</p> + +<p>"And the Wind Fairies?" Marcella asked breathlessly.</p> + +<p>"The Wind Fairies carried Freddy right to our garden and there Virginia +and Doris found him, none the worse for his wonderful adventure!"</p> + +<p>"Freddy must have enjoyed it and your little girls must have been very +glad to get Freddy back again!" said Marcella. "Raggedy Ann went up in +the air on the tail of a kite one day and fell and was lost, so now I am +very careful with her!"</p> + +<p>"Would you let me take Raggedy Ann for a few days?" asked the new +friend.</p> + +<p>Marcella was silent. She liked the stranger friend, but she did not wish +to lose Raggedy Ann.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I will promise to take very good care of her and return her to you in a +week. Will you let her go with me, Marcella?"</p> + +<p>Marcella finally agreed and when the stranger friend left, he placed +Raggedy Ann in his grip.</p> + +<p>"It is lonely without Raggedy Ann!" said the dollies each night.</p> + +<p>"We miss her happy painted smile and her cheery ways!" they said.</p> + +<p>And so the week dragged by....</p> + +<p>But, my! What a chatter there was in the nursery the first night after +Raggedy Ann returned. All the dolls were so anxious to hug Raggedy Ann +they could scarcely wait until Marcella had left them alone.</p> + +<p>When they had squeezed Raggedy Ann almost out of shape and she had +smoothed out her yarn hair, patted her apron out and felt her +shoe-button eyes to see if they were still there, she said, "Well, what +have you been doing? Tell me all the news!"</p> + +<p>"Oh we have just had the usual tea parties and games!" said the tin +soldier. "Tell us about yourself, Raggedy dear, we have missed you so +much!"</p> + +<p>"Yes! Tell us where you have been and what you have done, Raggedy!" all +the dolls cried.</p> + +<p>But Raggedy Ann just then noticed that one of the penny dolls had a hand +missing.</p> + +<p>"How did this happen?" she asked as she picked up the doll.</p> + +<p>"I fell off the table and lit upon the tin soldier last night when we +were playing. But don't mind a little thing like that, Raggedy Ann," +replied the penny doll. "Tell us of yourself! Have you had a nice time?"</p> + +<p>"I shall not tell a thing until your hand is mended!" Raggedy Ann said.</p> + +<p>So the Indian ran and brought a bottle of glue. "Where's the hand?" +Raggedy asked.</p> + +<p>"In my pocket," the penny doll answered.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s13c.jpg" width="400" height="286" alt="Raggedy Ann and her sisters" title="Raggedy Ann and her sisters" /> +</div> + +<p>When Raggedy Ann had glued the penny doll's hand in place and wrapped a +rag around it to hold it until the glue dried, she said, "When I tell +you of this wonderful adventure, I know you will all feel very happy. It +has made me almost burst my stitches with joy."</p> + +<p>The dolls all sat upon the floor around Raggedy Ann, the tin soldier +with his arm over her shoulder.</p> + +<p>"Well, first when I left," said Raggedy Ann, "I was placed in the +Stranger Friend's grip. It was rather stuffy in there, but I did not +mind it; in fact I believe I must have fallen asleep, for when I +awakened I saw the Stranger Friend's hand reaching into the grip. Then +he lifted me from the grip and danced me upon his knee. 'What do you +think of her?' he asked to three other men sitting nearby.</p> + +<p>"I was so interested in looking out of the window I did not pay any +attention to what they said, for we were on a train and the scenery was +just flying by! Then I was put back in the grip.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p> + +<p>"When next I was taken from the grip I was in a large, clean, light room +and there were many, many girls all dressed in white aprons.</p> + +<p>"The stranger friend showed me to another man and to the girls who took +off my clothes, cut my seams and took out my cotton. And what do you +think! They found my lovely candy heart had not melted at all as I +thought. Then they laid me on a table and marked all around my outside +edges with a pencil on clean white cloth, and then the girls re-stuffed +me and dressed me.</p> + +<p>"I stayed in the clean big light room for two or three days and nights +and watched my Sisters grow from pieces of cloth into rag dolls just +like myself!"</p> + +<p>"Your SISTERS!" the dolls all exclaimed in astonishment, "What do you +mean, Raggedy?"</p> + +<p>"I mean," said Raggedy Ann, "that the Stranger Friend had borrowed me +from Marcella so that he could have patterns made from me. And before I +left the big clean white room there where hundreds of rag dolls so like +me you would not have been able to tell us apart."</p> + +<p>"We could have told <i>you</i> by your happy smile!" cried the French dolly.</p> + +<p>"But all of my sister dolls have smiles just like mine!" replied Raggedy +Ann.</p> + +<p>"And shoe-button eyes?" the dolls all asked.</p> + +<p>"Yes, shoe-button eyes!" Raggedy Ann replied.</p> + +<p>"I would tell you from the others by your dress, Raggedy Ann," said the +French doll, "Your dress is fifty years old! I could tell you by that!"</p> + +<p>"But my new sister rag dolls have dresses just like mine, for the +Stranger Friend had cloth made especially for them exactly like mine."</p> + +<p>"I know how we could tell you from the other rag dolls, even if you all +look exactly alike!" said the Indian doll, who had been thinking for a +long time.</p> + +<p>"How?" asked Raggedy Ann with a laugh.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p> + +<p>"By feeling your candy heart! If the doll has a candy heart then it is +you, Raggedy Ann!"</p> + +<p>Raggedy Ann laughed, "I am so glad you all love me as you do, but I am +sure you would not be able to tell me from my new sisters, except that I +am more worn, for each new rag doll has a candy heart, and on it is +written, '<i>I love you</i>' just as is written on my own candy heart."</p> + +<p>"And there are hundreds and hundreds of the new rag dolls?" asked the +little penny dolls.</p> + +<p>"Hundreds and hundreds of them, all named Raggedy Ann," replied Raggedy.</p> + +<p>"Then," said the penny dolls, "we are indeed happy and proud for you! +For wherever one of the new Raggedy Ann dolls goes there will go with it +the love and happiness that <i>you</i> give to others."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/s13d.jpg" width="400" height="321" alt="Marcella, Raggedy Ann and the Fairies" title="Marcella, Raggedy Ann and the Fairies" /> +</div> + +<div class='tnote'><br /><h4>Transcriber's Note</h4> +<p>The table of contents was added to this html edition. 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differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f80b67d --- /dev/null +++ b/18190-h/images/title.png.jpg diff --git a/18190.txt b/18190.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4610806 --- /dev/null +++ b/18190.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2682 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Raggedy Ann Stories, by Johnny Gruelle + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Raggedy Ann Stories + +Author: Johnny Gruelle + +Illustrator: Johnny Gruelle + +Release Date: April 17, 2006 [EBook #18190] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RAGGEDY ANN STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN +STORIES + + +Written & Illustrated by +JOHNNY GRUELLE + + +[Illustration] + + LITTLE SIMON + New York London Toronto Sydney + +[Illustration] + + + + +PREFACE AND DEDICATION + + +As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the +telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann! + +The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child. + +There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely in +the face in a straightforward, honest manner, a twinkle where her +shoe-button eyes reflect the electric light. + +Evidently Raggedy has been to a "tea party" today, for her face is +covered with chocolate. + +She smiles happily and continuously. + +True, she has been nibbled by mice, who have made nests out of the soft +cotton with which she has been stuffed, but Raggedy smiled just as +broadly when the mice nibbled at her, for her smile is painted on. + +What adventures you must have had, Raggedy! + +What joy and happiness you have brought into this world! + +And no matter what treatment you have received, how patient you have +been! + +What lessons of kindness and fortitude you might teach could you but +talk; you with your wisdom of fifty-nine years. No wonder Rag Dolls are +the best beloved! You are so kindly, so patient, so lovable. + +The more you become torn, tattered and loose-jointed, Rag Dolls, the +more you are loved by children. + +Who knows but that Fairyland is filled with old, lovable Rag +Dolls--soft, loppy Rag Dolls who ride through all the wonders of +Fairyland in the crook of dimpled arms, snuggling close to childish +breasts within which beat hearts filled with eternal sunshine. + +So, to the millions of children and grown-ups who have loved a Rag Doll, +I dedicate these stories of Raggedy Ann. + + JOHNNY GRUELLE. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +Marcella liked to play up in the attic at Grandma's quaint old house, +'way out in the country, for there were so many old forgotten things to +find up there. + +One day when Marcella was up in the attic and had played with the old +spinning wheel until she had grown tired of it, she curled up on an old +horse-hair sofa to rest. + +"I wonder what is in that barrel, 'way back in the corner?" she thought, +as she jumped from the sofa and climbed over two dusty trunks to the +barrel standing back under the eaves. + +It was quite dark back there, so when Marcella had pulled a large bundle +of things from the barrel she took them over to the dormer window where +she could see better. There was a funny little bonnet with long white +ribbons. Marcella put it on. + +In an old leather bag she found a number of tin-types of queer looking +men and women in old-fashioned clothes. And there was one picture of a +very pretty little girl with long curls tied tightly back from her +forehead and wearing a long dress and queer pantaloons which reached to +her shoe-tops. And then out of the heap she pulled an old rag doll with +only one shoe-button eye and a painted nose and a smiling mouth. Her +dress was of soft material, blue with pretty little flowers and dots all +over it. + +Forgetting everything else in the happiness of her find, Marcella caught +up the rag doll and ran downstairs to show it to Grandma. + +"Well! Well! Where did you find it?" Grandma cried. "It's old Raggedy +Ann!" she went on as she hugged the doll to her breast. "I had +forgotten her. She has been in the attic for fifty years, I guess! Well! +Well! Dear old Raggedy Ann! I will sew another button on her right +away!" and Grandma went to the machine drawer and got her needle and +thread. + +Marcella watched the sewing while Grandma told how she had played with +Raggedy Ann when she was a little girl. + +"Now!" Grandma laughed, "Raggedy Ann, you have two fine shoe-button eyes +and with them you can see the changes that have taken place in the world +while you have been shut up so long in the attic! For, Raggedy Ann, you +have a new playmate and mistress now, and I hope you both will have as +much happiness together as you and I used to have!" + +Then Grandma gave Raggedy Ann to Marcella, saying very seriously, +"Marcella, let me introduce my very dear friend, Raggedy Ann. Raggedy, +this is my grand-daughter, Marcella!" And Grandma gave the doll a twitch +with her fingers in such a way that the rag doll nodded her head to +Marcella. + +"Oh, Grandma! Thank you ever and ever so much!" Marcella cried as she +gave Grandma a hug and kiss. "Raggedy Ann and I will have just loads of +fun." + +And this is how Raggedy Ann joined the doll family at Marcella's house, +where she began the adventures of Raggedy Ann, told in the following +stories. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN LEARNS A LESSON + + +One day the dolls were left all to themselves. + +Their little mistress had placed them all around the room and told them +to be nice children while she was away. + +And there they sat and never even so much as wiggled a finger, until +their mistress had left the room. + +Then the soldier dolly turned his head and solemnly winked at Raggedy +Ann. + +And when the front gate clicked and the dollies knew they were alone in +the house, they all scrambled to their feet. + +"Now let's have a good time!" cried the tin soldier. "Let's all go in +search of something to eat!" + +"Yes! Let's all go in search of something to eat!" cried all the other +dollies. + +"When Mistress had me out playing with her this morning," said Raggedy +Ann, "she carried me by a door near the back of the house and I smelled +something which smelled as if it would taste delicious!" + +"Then you lead the way, Raggedy Ann!" cried the French dolly. + +"I think it would be a good plan to elect Raggedy Ann as our leader on +this expedition!" said the Indian doll. + +At this all the other dolls clapped their hands together and shouted, +"Hurrah! Raggedy Ann will be our leader." + +So Raggedy Ann, very proud indeed to have the confidence and love of all +the other dollies, said that she would be very glad to be their leader. + +"Follow me!" she cried as her wobbly legs carried her across the floor +at a lively pace. + +The other dollies followed, racing about the house until they came to +the pantry door. "This is the place!" cried Raggedy Ann, and sure +enough, all the dollies smelled something which they knew must be very +good to eat. + +But none of the dollies was tall enough to open the door and, although +they pushed and pulled with all their might, the door remained tightly +closed. + +The dollies were talking and pulling and pushing and every once in a +while one would fall over and the others would step on her in their +efforts to open the door. Finally Raggedy Ann drew away from the others +and sat down on the floor. + +When the other dollies discovered Raggedy Ann sitting there, running her +rag hands through her yarn hair, they knew she was thinking. + +"Sh! Sh!" they said to each other and quietly went over near Raggedy Ann +and sat down in front of her. + +"There must be a way to get inside," said Raggedy Ann. + +"Raggedy says there must be a way to get inside!" cried all the dolls. + +"I can't seem to think clearly to-day," said Raggedy Ann. "It feels as +if my head were ripped." + +At this the French doll ran to Raggedy Ann and took off her bonnet. +"Yes, there is a rip in your head, Raggedy!" she said and pulled a pin +from her skirt and pinned up Raggedy's head. "It's not a very neat job, +for I got some puckers in it!" she said. + +"Oh that is ever so much better!" cried Raggedy Ann. "Now I can think +quite clearly." + +"Now Raggedy can think quite clearly!" cried all the dolls. + +"My thoughts must have leaked out the rip before!" said Raggedy Ann. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +"They must have leaked out before, dear Raggedy!" cried all the other +dolls. + +"Now that I can think so clearly," said Raggedy Ann, "I think the door +must be locked and to get in we must unlock it!" + +"That will be easy!" said the Dutch doll who says "Mamma" when he is +tipped backward and forward, "For we will have the brave tin soldier +shoot the key out of the lock!" + +"I can easily do that!" cried the tin soldier, as he raised his gun. + +"Oh, Raggedy Ann!" cried the French dolly. "Please do not let him +shoot!" + +"No!" said Raggedy Ann. "We must think of a quieter way!" + +After thinking quite hard for a moment, Raggedy Ann jumped up and said: +"I have it!" And she caught up the Jumping Jack and held him up to the +door; then Jack slid up his stick and unlocked the door. + +Then the dollies all pushed and the door swung open. + +My! Such a scramble! The dolls piled over one another in their desire to +be the first at the goodies. + +They swarmed upon the pantry shelves and in their eagerness spilled a +pitcher of cream which ran all over the French dolly's dress. + +The Indian doll found some corn bread and dipping it in the molasses he +sat down for a good feast. + +A jar of raspberry jam was overturned and the dollies ate of this until +their faces were all purple. + +The tin soldier fell from the shelf three times and bent one of his tin +legs, but he scrambled right back up again. + +Never had the dolls had so much fun and excitement, and they had all +eaten their fill when they heard the click of the front gate. + +[Illustration] + +They did not take time to climb from the shelves, but all rolled or +jumped off to the floor and scrambled back to their room as fast as +they could run, leaving a trail of bread crumbs and jam along the way. + +Just as their mistress came into the room the dolls dropped in whatever +positions they happened to be in. + +"This is funny!" cried Mistress. "They were all left sitting in their +places around the room! I wonder if Fido has been shaking them up!" Then +she saw Raggedy Ann's face and picked her up. "Why Raggedy Ann, you are +all sticky! I do believe you are covered with jam!" and Mistress tasted +Raggedy Ann's hand. "Yes! It's JAM! Shame on you, Raggedy Ann! You've +been in the pantry and all the others, too!" and with this the dolls' +mistress dropped Raggedy Ann on the floor and left the room. + +When she came back she had on an apron and her sleeves were rolled up. + +She picked up all the sticky dolls and putting them in a basket she +carried them out under the apple tree in the garden. + +There she had placed her little tub and wringer and she took the dolls +one at a time, and scrubbed them with a scrubbing brush and soused them +up and down and this way and that in the soap suds until they were +clean. + +Then she hung them all out on the clothes-line in the sunshine to dry. + +There the dolls hung all day, swinging and twisting about as the breeze +swayed the clothes-line. + +"I do believe she scrubbed my face so hard she wore off my smile!" said +Raggedy Ann, after an hour of silence. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +"No, it is still there!" said the tin solder, as the wind twisted him +around so he could see Raggedy. "But I do believe my arms will never +work without squeaking, they feel so rusted," he added. + +Just then the wind twisted the little Dutch doll and loosened his +clothes-pin, so that he fell to the grass below with a sawdusty bump and +as he rolled over he said, "Mamma!" in a squeaky voice. + +Late in the afternoon the back door opened and the little mistress came +out with a table and chairs. After setting the table she took all the +dolls from the line and placed them about the table. + +They had lemonade with grape jelly in it, which made it a beautiful +lavender color, and little "Baby-teeny-weeny-cookies" with powdered +sugar on them. + +After this lovely dinner, the dollies were taken in the house, where +they had their hair brushed and nice clean nighties put on. + +Then they were placed in their beds and Mistress kissed each one good +night and tiptoed from the room. + +All the dolls lay as still as mice for a few minutes, then Raggedy Ann +raised up on her cotton-stuffed elbows and said: "I have been thinking!" + +"Sh!" said all the other dollies, "Raggedy has been thinking!" + +"Yes," said Raggedy Ann, "I have been thinking; our mistress gave us the +nice dinner out under the trees to teach us a lesson. She wished us to +know that we could have had all the goodies we wished, whenever we +wished, if we had behaved ourselves. And our lesson was that we must +never take without asking what we could always have for the asking! So +let us all remember and try never again to do anything which might cause +those who love us any unhappiness!" + +"Let us all remember," chimed all the other dollies. + +[Illustration] + +And Raggedy Ann, with a merry twinkle in her shoe-button eyes, lay back +in her little bed, her cotton head filled with thoughts of love and +happiness. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN AND THE WASHING + + +"Why, Dinah! How could you!" + +Mamma looked out of the window and saw Marcella run up to Dinah and take +something out of her hand and then put her head in her arm and commence +crying. + +"What is the trouble, Dear?" Mamma asked, as she came out the door and +knelt beside the little figure shaking with sobs. + +Marcella held out Raggedy Ann. But such a comical looking Raggedy Ann! + +Mamma had to smile in spite of her sympathy, for Raggedy Ann looked +ridiculous! + +Dinah's big eyes rolled out in a troubled manner, for Marcella had +snatched Raggedy Ann from Dinah's hand as she cried, "Why, Dinah! How +could you?" + +Dinah could not quite understand and, as she dearly loved Marcella, she +was troubled. + +Raggedy Ann was not in the least downhearted and while she felt she must +look very funny she continued to smile, but with a more expansive smile +than ever before. + +Raggedy Ann knew just how it all happened and her remaining shoe-button +eye twinkled. + +She remembered that morning when Marcella came to the nursery to take +the nighties from the dolls and dress them she had been cross. + +Raggedy Ann thought at the time "Perhaps she had climbed out of bed +backwards!" For Marcella complained to each doll as she dressed them. + +And when it came Raggedy's time to be dressed, Marcella was very cross +for she had scratched her finger on a pin when dressing the French doll. + +So, when Marcella heard the little girl next door calling to her, she +ran out of the nursery and gave Raggedy Ann a toss from her as she ran. + +Now it happened Raggedy lit in the clothes hamper and there she lay all +doubled up in a knot. + +A few minutes afterwards Dinah came through the hall with an armful of +clothes and piled them in the hamper on top of Raggedy Ann. + +Then Dinah carried the hamper out in back of the house where she did the +washing. + +Dinah dumped all the clothes into the boiler and poured water on them. + +The boiler was then placed upon the stove. + +When the water began to get warm, Raggedy Ann wiggled around and climbed +up amongst the clothes to the top of the boiler to peek out. There was +too much steam and she could see nothing. For that matter, Dinah could +not see Raggedy Ann, either, on account of the steam. + +So Dinah, using an old broom handle, stirred the clothes in the boiler +and the clothes and Raggedy Ann were stirred and whirled around until +all were thoroughly boiled. + +When Dinah took the clothes a piece at a time from the boiler and +scrubbed them, she finally came upon Raggedy Ann. + +Now Dinah did not know but that Marcella had placed Raggedy in the +clothes hamper to be washed, so she soaped Raggedy well and scrubbed her +up and down over the rough wash-board. + +[Illustration] + +Two buttons from the back of Raggedy's dress came off and one of +Raggedy Ann's shoe-button eyes was loosened as Dinah gave her face a +final scrub. + +[Illustration] + +Then Dinah put Raggedy Ann's feet in the wringer and turned the crank. +It was hard work getting Raggedy through the wringer, but Dinah was very +strong. And of course it happened! Raggedy Ann came through as flat as a +pancake. + +It was just then, that Marcella returned and saw Raggedy. + +"Why, Dinah! How could you!" Marcella had sobbed as she snatched the +flattened Raggedy Ann from the bewildered Dinah's hand. + +Mamma patted Marcella's hand and soon coaxed her to quit sobbing. + +When Dinah explained that the first she knew of Raggedy being in the +wash was when she took her from the boiler, Marcella began crying again. + +"It was all my fault, Mamma!" she cried. "I remember now that I threw +dear old Raggedy Ann from me as I ran out the door and she must have +fallen in the clothes hamper! Oh dear! Oh dear!" and she hugged Raggedy +Ann tight. + +Mamma did not tell Marcella that she had been cross and naughty for she +knew Marcella felt very sorry. Instead Mamma put her arms around her and +said, + +"Just see how Raggedy Ann takes it! She doesn't seem to be unhappy!" + +And when Marcella brushed her tears away and looked at Raggedy Ann, flat +as a pancake and with a cheery smile upon her painted face, she had to +laugh. And Mamma and Dinah had to laugh, too, for Raggedy Ann's smile +was almost twice as broad as it had been before. + +"Just let me hang Miss Raggedy on the line in the bright sunshine for +half an hour," said Dinah, "and you won't know her when she comes off!" + +So Raggedy Ann was pinned to the clothes-line, out in the bright +sunshine, where she swayed and twisted in the breeze and listened to the +chatter of the robins in a nearby tree. + +[Illustration] + +Every once in a while Dinah went out and rolled and patted Raggedy until +her cotton stuffing was soft and dry and fluffy and her head and arms +and legs were nice and round again. + +Then she took Raggedy Ann into the house and showed Marcella and Mamma +how clean and sweet she was. + +Marcella took Raggedy Ann right up to the nursery and told all the dolls +just what had happened and how sorry she was that she had been so cross +and peevish when she dressed them. And while the dolls said never a word +they looked at their little mistress with love in their eyes as she sat +in the little red rocking chair and held Raggedy Ann tightly in her +arms. + +And Raggedy Ann's remaining shoe-button eye looked up at her little +mistress in rather a saucy manner, but upon her face was the same old +smile of happiness, good humor and love. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + +RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITE + + +Raggedy Ann watched with interest the preparations. + +A number of sticks were being fastened together with strings and covered +with light cloth. + +Raggedy Ann heard some of the boys talk of "The Kite," so Raggedy Ann +knew this must be a kite. + +When a tail had been fastened to the kite and a large ball of heavy +twine tied to the front, one of the boys held the kite up in the air and +another boy walked off, unwinding the ball of twine. + +There was a nice breeze blowing, so the boy with the twine called, "Let +'er go" and started running. + +Marcella held Raggedy up so that she could watch the kite sail through +the air. + +How nicely it climbed! But suddenly the kite acted strangely, and as all +the children shouted advice to the boy with the ball of twine, the kite +began darting this way and that, and finally making four or five +loop-the-loops, it crashed to the ground. + +"It needs more tail on it!" one boy shouted. + +Then the children asked each other where they might get more rags to +fasten to the tail of the kite. + +"Let's tie Raggedy Ann to the tail!" suggested Marcella. "I know she +would enjoy a trip 'way up in the sky!" + +The boys all shouted with delight at this new suggestion. So Raggedy Ann +was tied to the tail of the kite. + +This time the kite rose straight in the air and remained steady. The boy +with the ball of twine unwound it until the kite and Raggedy Ann were +'way, 'way up and far away. How Raggedy Ann enjoyed being up there! She +could see for miles and miles! And how tiny the children looked! + +Suddenly a great puff of wind came and carried Raggedy Ann streaming +'way out behind the kite! She could hear the wind singing on the twine +as the strain increased. + +Suddenly Raggedy Ann felt something rip. It was the rag to which she was +tied. As each puff of wind caught her the rip widened. + +When Marcella watched Raggedy Ann rise high above the field, she +wondered how much Raggedy Ann enjoyed it, and wished that she, too, +might have gone along. But after the kite had been up in the air for +five or ten minutes, Marcella grew restless. Kites were rather tiresome. +There was more fun in tea parties out under the apple tree. + +"Will you please pull down the kite now?" she asked the boy with the +twine. "I want Raggedy Ann." + +"Let her ride up there!" the boy replied. "We'll bring her home when we +pull down the kite! We're going to get another ball of twine and let her +go higher!" + +Marcella did not like to leave Raggedy Ann with the boys, so she sat +down upon the ground to wait until they pulled down the kite. + +But while Marcella watched Raggedy Ann, a dot in the sky, she could not +see the wind ripping the rag to which Raggedy was tied. + +Suddenly the rag parted and Raggedy Ann went sailing away as the wind +caught in her skirts. + +Marcella jumped from the ground, too surprised to say anything. The +kite, released from the weight of Raggedy Ann began darting and swooping +to the ground. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +"We'll get her for you!" some of the boys said when they saw Marcella's +troubled face, and they started running in the direction Raggedy Ann had +fallen. Marcella and the other girls ran with them. They ran, and they +ran, and they ran, and at last they found the kite upon the ground with +one of the sticks broken, but they could not find Raggedy Ann anywhere. + +"She must have fallen almost in your yard!" a boy said to Marcella, "for +the kite was directly over here when the doll fell!" + +Marcella was heartbroken. She went in the house and lay on the bed. +Mamma went out with the children and tried to find Raggedy Ann, but +Raggedy Ann was nowhere to be seen. + +When Daddy came home in the evening he tried to find Raggedy, but met +with no success. Marcella had eaten hardly any dinner, nor could she be +comforted by Mamma or Daddy. The other dolls in the nursery lay +forgotten and were not put to bed that night, for Marcella lay and +sobbed and tossed about her bed. + +Finally she said a little prayer for Raggedy Ann, and went to sleep. And +as she slept Marcella dreamed that the fairies came and took Raggedy Ann +with them to fairyland for a visit, and then sent Raggedy Ann home to +her. She awakened with a cry. Of course Mamma came to her bed right away +and said that Daddy would offer a reward in the morning for the return +of Raggedy. + +"It was all my fault, Mamma!" Marcella said. "I should not have offered +the boys dear old Raggedy Ann to tie on the tail of the kite! But I just +know the fairies will send her back." + +Mamma took her in her arms and soothed her with cheering words, although +she felt indeed that Raggedy Ann was truly lost and would never be found +again. + +Now, where do you suppose Raggedy Ann was all this time? + +[Illustration] + +When Raggedy Ann dropped from the kite, the wind caught in her skirts +and carried her along until she fell in the fork of the large elm tree +directly over Marcella's house. When Raggedy Ann fell with a thud, face +up in the fork of the tree, two robins who had a nest near by flew +chattering away. + +Presently the robins returned and quarreled at Raggedy Ann for laying so +close to their nest, but Raggedy Ann only smiled at them and did not +move. + +When the robins quieted down and quit their quarreling, one of them +hopped up closer to Raggedy Ann in order to investigate. + +It was Mamma Robin. She called to Daddy Robin and told him to come. "See +the nice yarn! We could use it to line the nest with," she said. + +So the robins hopped closer to Raggedy Ann and asked if they might have +some of her yarn hair to line their nest. Raggedy Ann smiled at them. So +the two robins pulled and tugged at Raggedy Ann's yarn hair until they +had enough to line their nest nice and soft. + +Evening came and the robins sang their good night songs, and Raggedy Ann +watched the stars come out, twinkle all night and disappear in the +morning light. In the morning the robins again pulled yarn from Raggedy +Ann's head, and loosened her so she could peep over the side of the +limb, and when the sun came up Raggedy Ann saw she was in the trees in +her own yard. + +Now before she could eat any breakfast, Marcella started out to find +Raggedy Ann. And, it was Marcella herself who found her. And this is how +she did it. + +Mamma Robin had seen Marcella with Raggedy Ann out in the yard many +times, so she began calling "Cheery! Cheery!" and Daddy Robin started +calling "Cheery! Cheery! Cheer up! Cheer up! Cheerily Cheerily! Cheery! +Cheery!" And Marcella looking up into the tree above the house to see +the robins, discovered Raggedy Ann peeping over the limb at her. + +[Illustration] + +Oh, how her heart beat with happiness. "Here is Raggedy Ann," she +shouted. + +And Mamma and Daddy came out and saw Raggedy smiling at them, and Daddy +got the clothes prop and climbed out of the attic window and poked +Raggedy Ann out of the tree and she fell right into Marcella's arms +where she was hugged in a tight embrace. + +"You'll never go up on a kite again, Raggedy Ann!" said Marcella, "for I +felt so lost without you. I will never let you leave me again." + +So Raggedy Ann went into the house and had breakfast with her little +mistress and Mamma and Daddy smiled at each other when they peeped +through the door into the breakfast room, for Raggedy Ann's smile was +wide and very yellow. Marcella, her heart full of happiness, was feeding +Raggedy Ann part of her egg. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + +RAGGEDY ANN RESCUES FIDO + + +It was almost midnight and the dolls were asleep in their beds; all +except Raggedy Ann. + +Raggedy lay there, her shoe-button eyes staring straight up at the +ceiling. Every once in a while Raggedy Ann ran her rag hand up through +her yarn hair. She was thinking. + +When she had thought for a long, long time, Raggedy Ann raised herself +on her wabbly elbows and said, "I've thought it all out." + +At this the other dolls shook each other and raised up saying, "Listen! +Raggedy has thought it all out!" + +"Tell us what you have been thinking, dear Raggedy," said the tin +soldier. "We hope they were pleasant thoughts." + +"Not very pleasant thoughts!" said Raggedy, as she brushed a tear from +her shoe-button eyes. "You haven't seen Fido all day, have you?" + +"Not since early this morning," the French dolly said. + +"It has troubled me," said Raggedy, "and if my head was not stuffed with +lovely new white cotton, I am sure it would have ached with the worry! +When Mistress took me into the living-room this afternoon she was +crying, and I heard her mamma say, 'We will find him! He is sure to come +home soon!' and I knew they were talking of Fido! He must be lost!" + +The tin soldier jumped out of bed and ran over to Fido's basket, his tin +feet clicking on the floor as he went. "He is not here," he said. + +"When I was sitting in the window about noon-time," said the Indian +doll, "I saw Fido and a yellow scraggly dog playing out on the lawn and +they ran out through a hole in the fence!" + +"That was Priscilla's dog, Peterkins!" said the French doll. + +"I know poor Mistress is very sad on account of Fido," said the Dutch +doll, "because I was in the dining-room at supper-time and I heard her +daddy tell her to eat her supper and he would go out and find Fido; but +I had forgotten all about it until now." + +"That is the trouble with all of us except Raggedy Ann!" cried the +little penny doll, in a squeaky voice, "She has to think for all of us!" + +"I think it would be a good plan for us to show our love for Mistress +and try and find Fido!" exclaimed Raggedy. + +"It is a good plan, Raggedy Ann!" cried all the dolls. "Tell us how to +start about it." + +"Well, first let us go out upon the lawn and see if we can track the +dogs!" said Raggedy. + +"I can track them easily!" the Indian doll said, "for Indians are good +at trailing things!" + +"Then let us waste no more time in talking!" said Raggedy Ann, as she +jumped from bed, followed by the rest. + +The nursery window was open, so the dolls helped each other up on the +sill and then jumped to the soft grass below. They fell in all sorts of +queer attitudes, but of course the fall did not hurt them. + +At the hole in the fence the Indian doll picked up the trail of the two +dogs, and the dolls, stringing out behind, followed him until they came +to Peterkins' house. Peterkins was surprised to see the strange little +figures in white nighties come stringing up the path to the dog house. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Peterkins was too large to sleep in the nursery, so he had a nice cozy +dog-house under the grape arbor. + +"Come in," Peterkins said when he saw and recognized the dolls, so all +the dollies went into Peterkins' house and sat about while Raggedy told +him why they had come. + +"It has worried me, too!" said Peterkins, "but I had no way of telling +your mistress where Fido was, for she cannot understand dog language! +For you see," Peterkins continued, "Fido and I were having the grandest +romp over in the park when a great big man with a funny thing on the end +of a stick came running towards us. We barked at him and Fido thought he +was trying to play with us and went up too close and do you know, that +wicked man caught Fido in the thing at the end of the stick and carried +him to a wagon and dumped him in with a lot of other dogs!" + +"_The Dog Catcher!_" cried Raggedy Ann. + +"Yes!" said Peterkins, as he wiped his eyes with his paws. "It was the +dog catcher! For I followed the wagon at a distance and I saw him put +all the dogs into a big wire pen, so that none could get out!" + +"Then you know the way there, Peterkins?" asked Raggedy Ann. + +"Yes, I can find it easily," Peterkins said. + +"Then show us the way!" Raggedy Ann cried, "for we must try to rescue +Fido." + +So Peterkins led the way up alleys and across streets, the dolls all +pattering along behind him. It was a strange procession. Once a strange +dog ran out at them, but Peterkins told him to mind his own business and +the strange dog returned to his own yard. + +At last they came to the dog catcher's place. Some of the dogs in the +pen were barking at the moon and others were whining and crying. + +[Illustration] + +There was Fido, all covered with mud, and his pretty red ribbon dragging +on the ground. My, but he was glad to see the dolls and Peterkins! All +the dogs came to the side of the pen and twisted their heads from side +to side, gazing in wonder at the queer figures of the dolls. + +"We will try and let you out," said Raggedy Ann. + +At this all the dogs barked joyfully. + +Then Raggedy Ann, the other dolls and Peterkins went to the gate. + +The catch was too high for Raggedy Ann to reach, but Peterkins held +Raggedy Ann in his mouth and stood up on his hind legs so that she could +raise the catch. + +When the catch was raised, the dogs were so anxious to get out they +pushed and jumped against the gate so hard it flew open, knocking +Peterkins and Raggedy Ann into the mud. Such a yapping and barking was +never heard in the neighborhood as when the dogs swarmed out of the +enclosure, jumping over one another and scrambling about in the mad rush +out the gate. + +Fido picked himself up from where he had been rolled by the large dogs +and helped Raggedy Ann to her feet. He, Peterkins, and all the dolls ran +after the pack of dogs, turning the corner just as the dog catcher came +running out of the house in his nightgown to see what was causing the +trouble. + +He stopped in astonishment when he saw the string of dolls in white +nighties pattering down the alley, for he could not imagine what they +were. + +Well, you may be sure the dolls thanked Peterkins for his kind +assistance and they and Fido ran on home, for a faint light was +beginning to show in the east where the sun was getting ready to come +up. + +When they got to their own home they found an old chair out in the yard +and after a great deal of work they finally dragged it to the window and +thus managed to get into the nursery again. + +Fido was very grateful to Raggedy Ann and the other dolls and before he +went to his basket he gave them each a lick on the cheek. + +[Illustration] + +The dolls lost no time in scrambling into bed and pulling up the covers, +for they were very sleepy, but just as they were dozing off, Raggedy Ann +raised herself and said, "If my legs and arms were not stuffed with nice +clean cotton I feel sure they would ache, but being stuffed with nice +clean white cotton, they do not ache and I could not feel happier if my +body were stuffed with sunshine, for I know how pleased and happy +Mistress will be in the morning when she discovers Fido asleep in his +own little basket, safe and sound at home." + +And as the dollies by this time were all asleep, Raggedy Ann pulled the +sheet up to her chin and smiled so hard she ripped two stitches out of +the back of her rag head. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN AND THE PAINTER + + +When housecleaning time came around, Mistress' mamma decided that she +would have the nursery repainted and new paper put upon the walls. That +was why all the dolls happened to be laid helter-skelter upon one of the +high shelves. + +Mistress had been in to look at them and wished to put them to bed, but +as the painters were coming again in the early morning, Mamma thought it +best that their beds be piled in the closet. + +So the dolls' beds were piled into the closet, one on top of another and +the dolls were placed upon the high shelf. + +When all was quiet that night, Raggedy Ann who was on the bottom of the +pile of dolls spoke softly and asked the others if they would mind +moving along the shelf. + +"The cotton in my body is getting mashed as flat as a pancake!" said +Raggedy Ann. And although the tin soldier was piled so that his foot was +pressed into Raggedy's face, she still wore her customary smile. + +So the dolls began moving off to one side until Raggedy Ann was free to +sit up. + +"Ah, that's a great deal better!" she said, stretching her arms and legs +to get the kinks out of them, and patting her dress into shape. + +"Well, I'll be glad when morning comes!" she said finally, "for I know +Mistress will take us out in the yard and play with us under the trees." + +So the dolls sat and talked until daylight, when the painters came to +work. + +One of the painters, a young fellow, seeing the dolls, reached up and +took Raggedy Ann down from the shelf. + +"Look at this rag doll, Jim," he said to one of the other painters, +"She's a daisy," and he took Raggedy Ann by the hands and danced with +her while he whistled a lively tune. Raggedy Ann's heels hit the floor +thumpity-thump and she enjoyed it immensely. + +The other dolls sat upon the shelf and looked straight before them, for +it would never do to let grown-up men know that dolls were really alive. + +"Better put her back upon the shelf," said one of the other men. "You'll +have the little girl after you! The chances are that she likes that old +rag doll better than any of the others!" + +But the young painter twisted Raggedy Ann into funny attitudes and +laughed and laughed as she looped about. Finally he got to tossing her +up in the air and catching her. This was great fun for Raggedy and as +she sailed up by the shelf the dolls all smiled at her, for it pleased +them whenever Raggedy Ann was happy. + +But the young fellow threw Raggedy Ann up into the air once too often +and when she came down he failed to catch her and she came down +_splash_, head first into a bucket of oily paint. + +"I told you!" said the older painter, "and now you are in for it!" + +"My goodness! I didn't mean to do it!" said the young fellow, "What had +I better do with her?" + +"Better put her back on the shelf!" replied the other. + +So Raggedy was placed back upon the shelf and the paint ran from her +head and trickled down upon her dress. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +After breakfast, Mistress came into the nursery and saw Raggedy all +covered with paint and she began crying. + +The young painter felt sorry and told her how it had happened. + +"If you will let me," he said, "I will take her home with me and will +clean her up tonight and will bring her back day after tomorrow." + +So Raggedy was wrapped in a newspaper that evening and carried away. + +All the dolls felt sad that night without Raggedy Ann near them. + +"Poor Raggedy! I could have cried when I saw her all covered with +paint!" said the French doll. + +"She didn't look like our dear old Raggedy Ann at all!" said the tin +soldier, who wiped the tears from his eyes so that they would not run +down on his arms and rust them. + +"The paint covered her lovely smile and nose and you could not see the +laughter in her shoe-button eyes!" said the Indian doll. + +And so the dolls talked that night and the next. But in the daytime +when the painters were there, they kept very quiet. + +The second day Raggedy was brought home and the dolls were all anxious +for night to come so that they could see and talk with Raggedy Ann. + +At last the painters left and the house was quiet, for Mistress had been +in and placed Raggedy on the shelf with the other dolls. + +"Tell us all about it, Raggedy dear!" the dolls cried. + +"Oh I am so glad I fell in the paint!" cried Raggedy, after she had +hugged all the dolls, "For I have had the happiest time. The painter +took me home and told his Mamma how I happened to be covered with paint +and she was very sorry. She took a rag and wiped off my shoe-button eyes +and then I saw that she was a very pretty, sweet-faced lady and she got +some cleaner and wiped off most of the paint on my face. + +[Illustration] + +"But you know," Raggedy continued, "the paint had soaked through my rag +head and had made the cotton inside all sticky and soggy and I could not +think clearly. And my yarn hair was all matted with paint. + +"So the kind lady took off my yarn hair and cut the stitches out of my +head, and took out all the painty cotton. + +"It was a great relief, although it felt queer at first and my thoughts +seemed scattered. + +"She left me in her work-basket that night and hung me out upon the +clothes-line the next morning when she had washed the last of the paint +off. + +"And while I hung out on the clothes-line, what do you think?" + +"We could never guess!" all the dolls cried. + +"Why a dear little Jenny Wren came and picked enough cotton out of me to +make a cute little cuddly nest in the grape arbor!" + +"Wasn't that sweet!" cried all the dolls. + +"Yes indeed it was!" replied Raggedy Ann, "It made me very happy. Then +when the lady took me in the house again she stuffed me with lovely nice +new cotton, all the way from my knees up and sewed me up and put new +yarn on my head for hair and--and--and it's a secret!" said Raggedy Ann. + +"Oh tell us the secret!" cried all the dolls, as they pressed closer to +Raggedy. "Well, I know you will not tell anyone who would not be glad to +know about it, so I will tell you the secret and why I am wearing my +smile a trifle broader!" said Raggedy Ann. + +The dolls all said that Raggedy Ann's smile was indeed a quarter of an +inch wider on each side. + +[Illustration] + +"When the dear lady put the new white cotton in my body," said Raggedy +Ann "she went to the cupboard and came back with a paper bag. And she +took from the bag ten or fifteen little candy hearts with mottos on them +and she hunted through the candy hearts until she found a beautiful +red one which she sewed up in me with the cotton! So that is the +secret, and that is why I am so happy! Feel here," said Raggedy Ann. All +the dolls could feel Raggedy Ann's beautiful new candy heart and they +were very happy for her. + +After all had hugged each other good night and had cuddled up for the +night, the tin soldier asked, "Did you have a chance to see what the +motto on your new candy heart was, Raggedy Ann?" + +"Oh yes," replied Raggedy Ann, "I was so happy I forgot to tell you. It +had printed upon it in nice blue letters, 'I LOVE YOU.'" + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN'S TRIP ON THE RIVER + + +When Marcella had a tea party out in the orchard, of course all of the +dolls were invited. Raggedy Ann, the tin soldier, the Indian doll and +all the others--even the four little penny dolls in the spool box. After +a lovely tea party with ginger cookies and milk, of course the dolls +were very sleepy, at least Marcella thought so, so she took all except +Raggedy Ann into the house and put them to bed for the afternoon nap. +Then Marcella told Raggedy Ann to stay there and watch the things. + +As there was nothing else to do, Raggedy Ann waited for Marcella to +return. And as she watched the little ants eating cookie crumbs Marcella +had thrown to them, she heard all of a sudden the patter of puppy feet +behind her. It was Fido. + +The puppy dog ran up to Raggedy Ann and twisted his head about as he +looked at her. Then he put his front feet out and barked in Raggedy +Ann's face. Raggedy Ann tried to look very stern, but she could not hide +the broad smile painted on her face. + +"Oh, you want to play, do you?" the puppy dog barked, as he jumped at +Raggedy Ann and then jumped back again. + +The more Raggedy Ann smiled, the livelier Fido's antics became, until +finally he caught the end of her dress and dragged her about. + +This was great fun for the puppy dog, but Raggedy Ann did not enjoy it. +She kicked and twisted as much as she could, but the puppy dog thought +Raggedy was playing. + +He ran out the garden gate and down the path across the meadow, every +once in a while stopping and pretending he was very angry. When he +pretended this, Fido would give Raggedy Ann a great shaking, making her +yarn head hit the ground "ratty-tat-tat." Then he would give his head a +toss and send Raggedy Ann high in the air where she would turn over two +or three times before she reached the ground. + +By this time, she had lost her apron and now some of her yarn hair was +coming loose. + +As Fido neared the brook, another puppy dog came running across the +foot-bridge to meet him. "What have you there, Fido?" said the new puppy +dog as he bounced up to Raggedy Ann. + +"This is Raggedy Ann," answered Fido. "She and I are having a lovely +time playing." + +You see, Fido really thought Raggedy enjoyed being tossed around and +whirled high up in the air. But of course she didn't. However, the game +didn't last much longer. As Raggedy Ann hit the ground the new puppy dog +caught her dress and ran with her across the bridge, Fido barking close +behind him. + +In the center of the bridge, Fido caught up with the new puppy dog and +they had a lively tug-of-war with Raggedy Ann stretched between then. As +they pulled and tugged and flopped Raggedy Ann about, somehow she fell +over the side of the bridge into the water. + +The puppy dogs were surprised, and Fido was very sorry indeed, for he +remembered how good Raggedy Ann had been to him and how she had rescued +him from the dog-pound. But the current carried Raggedy Ann right along +and all Fido could do was to run along the bank and bark. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Now, you would have thought Raggedy Ann would sink, but no, she floated +nicely, for she was stuffed with clean white cotton and the water didn't +soak through very quickly. + +After a while, the strange puppy and Fido grew tired of running along +the bank and the strange puppy scampered home over the meadow, with his +tail carried gaily over his back as if he had nothing to be ashamed of. +But Fido walked home very sorry indeed. His little heart was broken to +think that he had caused Raggedy Ann to be drowned. + +But Raggedy Ann didn't drown--not a bit of it. In fact, she even went to +sleep on the brook, for the motion of the current was very soothing as +it carried her along--just like being rocked by Marcella. + +So, sleeping peacefully, Raggedy Ann drifted along with the current +until she came to a pool where she lodged against a large stone. + +Raggedy Ann tried to climb upon the stone, but by this time the water +had thoroughly soaked through Raggedy Ann's nice, clean, white cotton +stuffing and she was so heavy she could not climb. + +So there she had to stay until Marcella and Daddy came along and found +her. + +You see, they had been looking for her. They had found pieces of her +apron all along the path and across the meadow where Fido and the +strange puppy dog had shaken them from Raggedy Ann. So they followed the +brook until they found her. + +When Daddy fished Raggedy Ann from the water, Marcella hugged her so +tightly to her breast the water ran from Raggedy Ann and dripped all +over Marcella's apron. But Marcella was so glad to find Raggedy Ann +again she didn't mind it a bit. She just hurried home and took off all +of Raggedy Ann's wet clothes and placed her on a little red chair in +front of the oven door, and then brought all of the other dolls in and +read a fairy tale to them while Raggedy Ann steamed and dried. + +[Illustration] + +When Raggedy Ann was thoroughly dry, Mamma said she thought the cake +must be finished and she took from the oven a lovely chocolate cake and +gave Marcella a large piece to have another tea party with. + +That night when all the house was asleep, Raggedy Ann raised up in bed +and said to the dolls who were still awake, "I am so happy I do not feel +a bit sleepy. Do you know, I believe the water soaked me so thoroughly +my candy heart must have melted and filled my whole body, and I do not +feel the least bit angry with Fido for playing with me so roughly!" + +So all the other dolls were happy, too, for happiness is very easy to +catch when we love one another and are sweet all through. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN AND THE STRANGE DOLLS + + +Raggedy Ann lay just as Marcella had dropped her--all sprawled out with +her rag arms and legs twisted in ungraceful attitudes. + +Her yarn hair was twisted and lay partly over her face, hiding one of +her shoe-button eyes. + +Raggedy gave no sign that she had heard, but lay there smiling at the +ceiling. + +Perhaps Raggedy Ann knew that what the new dolls said was true. + +But sometimes the truth may hurt and this may have been the reason +Raggedy Ann lay there so still. + +"Did you ever see such an ungainly creature!" + +"I do believe it has shoe buttons for eyes!" + +"And yarn hair!" + +"Mercy, did you ever see such feet!" + +The Dutch doll rolled off the doll sofa and said "Mamma" in his quavery +voice, he was so surprised at hearing anyone speak so of beloved Raggedy +Ann--dear Raggedy Ann, she of the candy heart, whom all the dolls loved. + +Uncle Clem was also very much surprised and offended. He walked up in +front of the two new dolls and looked them sternly in the eyes, but he +could think of nothing to say so he pulled at his yarn mustache. + +Marcella had only received the two new dolls that morning. They had come +in the morning mail and were presents from an aunt. + +Marcella had named the two new dolls Annabel-Lee and Thomas, after her +aunt and uncle. + +Annabel-Lee and Thomas were beautiful dolls and must have cost heaps and +heaps of shiny pennies, for both were handsomely dressed and had _real_ +hair! + +Annabel's hair was of a lovely shade of auburn and Thomas' was golden +yellow. + +Annabel was dressed in soft, lace-covered silk and upon her head she +wore a beautiful hat with long silk ribbons tied in a neat bow-knot +beneath her dimpled chin. + +Thomas was dressed in an Oliver Twist suit of dark velvet with a lace +collar. Both he and Annabel wore lovely black slippers and short +stockings. + +They were sitting upon two of the little red doll chairs where Marcella +had placed them and where they could see the other dolls. + +When Uncle Clem walked in front of them and pulled his mustache they +laughed outright. "Tee-Hee-Hee!" they snickered, "He has holes in his +knees!" + +Quite true. Uncle Clem was made of worsted and the moths had eaten his +knees and part of his kiltie. He had a kiltie, you see, for Uncle Clem +was a Scotch doll. + +Uncle Clem shook, but he felt so hurt he could think of nothing to say. + +He walked over and sat down beside Raggedy Ann and brushed her yarn hair +away from her shoe-button eye. + +The tin soldier went over and sat beside them. + +"Don't you mind what they say, Raggedy!" he said, "They do not know you +as we do!" + +"We don't care to know her!" said Annabel-Lee as she primped her dress, +"She looks like a scarecrow!" + +"And the Soldier must have been made with a can opener!" laughed +Thomas. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +"You should be ashamed of yourselves!" said the French dolly, as she +stood before Annabel and Thomas, "You will make all of us sorry that you +have joined our family if you continue to poke fun at us and look down +upon us. We are all happy here together and share in each others' +adventures and happiness." + +Now, that night Marcella did not undress the two new dolls, for she had +no nighties for them, so she let them sit up in the two little red doll +chairs so they would not muss their clothes. "I will make nighties for +you tomorrow!" she said as she kissed them good night. Then she went +over and gave Raggedy Ann a good night hug. "Take good care of all my +children, Raggedy!" she said as she went out. + +Annabel and Thomas whispered together, "Perhaps we have been too hasty +in our judgment!" said Annabel-Lee. "This Raggedy Ann seems to be a +favorite with the mistress and with all the dolls!" + +"There must be a reason!" replied Thomas, "I am beginning to feel sorry +that we spoke of her looks. One really cannot help one's looks after +all." + +Now, Annabel-Lee and Thomas were very tired after their long journey and +soon they fell asleep and forgot all about the other dolls. + +When they were sound asleep, Raggedy Ann slipped quietly from her bed +and awakened the tin soldier and Uncle Clem and the three tiptoed to the +two beautiful new dolls. + +They lifted them gently so as not to awaken them and carried them to +Raggedy Ann's bed. + +Raggedy Ann tucked them in snugly and lay down upon the hard floor. + +The tin soldier and Uncle Clem both tried to coax Raggedy Ann into +accepting their bed (they slept together), but Raggedy Ann would not +hear of it. + +"I am stuffed with nice soft cotton and the hard floor does not bother +me at all!" said Raggedy. + +[Illustration] + +At daybreak the next morning Annabel and Thomas awakened to find +themselves in Raggedy Ann's bed and as they raised up and looked at each +other each knew how ashamed the other felt, for they knew Raggedy Ann +had generously given them her bed. + +There Raggedy Ann lay; all sprawled out upon the hard floor, her rag +arms and legs twisted in ungraceful attitudes. + +"How good and honest she looks!" said Annabel. "It must be her +shoe-button eyes!" + +"How nicely her yarn hair falls in loops over her face!" exclaimed +Thomas, "I did not notice how pleasant her face looked last night!" + +"The others seem to love her ever and ever so much!" mused Annabel. "It +must be because she is so kind." + +Both new dolls were silent for a while, thinking deeply. + +"How do you feel?" Thomas finally asked. + +"Very much ashamed of myself!" answered Annabel, "And you, Thomas?" + +"As soon as Raggedy Ann awakens, I shall tell her just how much ashamed +I am of myself and if she can, I want her to forgive me!" Thomas said. + +"The more I look at her, the better I like her!" said Annabel. + +"I am going to kiss her!" said Thomas. + +"You'll awaken her if you do!" said Annabel. + +But Thomas climbed out of bed and kissed Raggedy Ann on her painted +cheek and smoothed her yarn hair from her rag forehead. + +And Annabel-Lee climbed out of bed, too, and kissed Raggedy Ann. + +Then Thomas and Annabel-Lee gently carried Raggedy Ann and put her in +her own bed and tenderly tucked her in, and then took their seats in the +two little red chairs. + +After a while Annabel said softly to Thomas, "I feel ever and ever so +much better and happier!" + +[Illustration] + +"So do I!" Thomas replied. "It's like a whole lot of sunshine coming +into a dark room, and I shall always try to keep it there!" + +Fido had one fuzzy white ear sticking up over the edge of his basket and +he gave his tail a few thumps against his pillow. + +Raggedy Ann lay quietly in bed where Thomas and Annabel had tucked her. +And as she smiled at the ceiling, her candy heart (with "I LOVE YOU" +written on it) thrilled with contentment, for, as you have probably +guessed, Raggedy Ann had not been asleep at all! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITTENS + + +Raggedy Ann had been away all day. + +Marcella had come early in the morning and dressed all the dolls and +placed them about the nursery. + +Some of the dolls had been put in the little red chairs around the +little doll table. There was nothing to eat upon the table except a +turkey, a fried egg and an apple, all made of plaster of paris and +painted in natural colors. The little teapot and other doll dishes were +empty, but Marcella had told them to enjoy their dinner while she was +away. + +The French dolly had been given a seat upon the doll sofa and Uncle Clem +had been placed at the piano. + +Marcella picked up Raggedy Ann and carried her out of the nursery when +she left, telling the dolls to "be real good children, while Mamma is +away!" + +When the door closed, the tin soldier winked at the Dutch-boy doll and +handed the imitation turkey to the penny dolls. "Have some nice turkey?" +he asked. + +"No thank you!" the penny dolls said in little penny-doll, squeaky +voices, "We have had all we can eat!" + +"Shall I play you a tune?" asked Uncle Clem of the French doll. + +At this all the dolls laughed, for Uncle Clem could not begin to play +any tune. Raggedy Ann was the only doll who had ever taken lessons, and +she could play Peter-Peter-Pumpkin-Eater with one hand. + +In fact, Marcella had almost worn out Raggedy Ann's right hand teaching +it to her. + +"Play something lively!" said the French doll, as she giggled behind her +hand, so Uncle Clem began hammering the eight keys on the toy piano with +all his might until a noise was heard upon the stairs. + +Quick as a wink, all the dolls took the same positions in which they had +been placed by Marcella, for they did not wish really truly people to +know that they could move about. + +But it was only Fido. He put his nose in the door and looked around. + +All the dolls at the table looked steadily at the painted food, and +Uncle Clem leaned upon the piano keys looking just as unconcerned as +when he had been placed there. + +Then Fido pushed the door open and came into the nursery wagging his +tail. + +He walked over to the table and sniffed, in hopes Marcella had given the +dolls real food and that some would still be left. + +"Where's Raggedy Ann?" Fido asked, when he had satisfied himself that +there was no food. + +"Mistress took Raggedy Ann and went somewhere!" all the dolls answered +in chorus. + +"I've found something I must tell Raggedy Ann about!" said Fido, as he +scratched his ear. + +"Is it a secret?" asked the penny dolls. + +"Secret nothing," replied Fido, "It's kittens!" + +"How lovely!" cried all the dolls, "Really live kittens?" + +"Really live kittens!" replied Fido, "Three little tiny ones, out in the +barn!" + +"Oh, I wish Raggedy Ann was here!" cried the French doll. "She would +know what to do about it!" + +[Illustration] + +"That's why I wanted to see her," said Fido, as he thumped his tail on +the floor, "I did not know there were any kittens and I went into the +barn to hunt for mice and the first thing I knew Mamma Cat came bouncing +right at me with her eyes looking green! I tell you I hurried out of +there!" + +[Illustration] + +"How did you know there were any kittens then?" asked Uncle Clem. + +"I waited around the barn until Mamma Cat went up to the house and then +I slipped into the barn again, for I knew there must be something inside +or she would not have jumped at me that way! We are always very friendly, +you know." Fido continued. "And what was my surprise to find three tiny +little kittens in an old basket, 'way back in a dark corner!" + +"Go get them, Fido, and bring them up so we can see them!" said the tin +soldier. + +"Not me!" said Fido, "If I had a suit of tin clothes on like you have I +might do it, but you know cats can scratch very hard if they want to!" + +"We will tell Raggedy when she comes in!" said the French doll, and then +Fido went out to play with a neighbor dog. + +So when Raggedy Ann had been returned to the nursery the dolls could +hardly wait until Marcella had put on their nighties and left them for +the night. + +Then they told Raggedy Ann all about the kittens. + +Raggedy Ann jumped from her bed and ran over to Fido's basket; he wasn't +there. + +Then Raggedy suggested that all the dolls go out to the barn and see the +kittens. This they did easily, for the window was open and it was but a +short jump to the ground. + +They found Fido out near the barn watching a hole. + +"I was afraid something might disturb them," he said, "for Mamma Cat +went away about an hour ago." + +All the dolls, with Raggedy Ann in the lead, crawled through the hole +and ran to the basket. + +[Illustration] + +Just as Raggedy Ann started to pick up one of the kittens there was a +lot of howling and yelping and Fido came bounding through the hole with +Mamma Cat behind him. When Mamma Cat caught up with Fido he would yelp. + +When Fido and Mamma Cat had circled the barn two or three times Fido +managed to find the hole and escape to the yard; then Mamma Cat came +over to the basket and saw all the dolls. + +"I'm s'prised at you, Mamma Cat!" said Raggedy Ann, "Fido has been +watching your kittens for an hour while you were away. He wouldn't hurt +them for anything!" + +"I'm sorry, then," said Mamma Cat. + +"You must trust Fido, Mamma Cat!" said Raggedy Ann, "because he loves +you and anyone who loves you can be trusted!" + +"That's so!" replied Mamma Cat. "Cats love mice, too, and I wish the +mice trusted us more!" + +The dolls all laughed at this joke. + +"Have you told the folks up at the house about your dear little +kittens?" Raggedy Ann asked. + +"Oh, my, no!" exclaimed Mamma Cat. "At the last place I lived the people +found out about my kittens and do you know, all the kittens disappeared! +I intend keeping this a secret!" + +"But all the folks at this house are very kindly people and would dearly +love your kittens!" cried all the dolls. + +"Let's take them right up to the nursery!" said Raggedy Ann, "And +Mistress can find them there in the morning!" + +"How lovely!" said all the dolls in chorus. "Do, Mamma Cat! Raggedy Ann +knows, for she is stuffed with nice clean white cotton and is very +wise!" + +So after a great deal of persuasion, Mamma Cat finally consented. +Raggedy Ann took two of the kittens and carried them to the house while +Mamma Cat carried the other. + +Raggedy Ann wanted to give the kittens her bed, but Fido, who was +anxious to prove his affection, insisted that Mamma Cat and the kittens +should have his nice soft basket. + +[Illustration] + +The dolls could hardly sleep that night; they were so anxious to see +what Mistress would say when she found the dear little kittens in the +morning. + +Raggedy Ann did not sleep a wink, for she shared her bed with Fido and +he kept her awake whispering to her. + +In the morning when Marcella came to the nursery, the first thing she +saw was the three little kittens. + +She cried out in delight and carried them all down to show to Mamma and +Daddy. Mamma Cat went trailing along, arching her back and purring with +pride as she rubbed against all the chairs and doors. + +Mamma and Daddy said the kittens could stay in the nursery and belong to +Marcella, so Marcella took them back to Fido's basket while she hunted +names for them out of a fairy tale book. + +Marcella finally decided upon three names; Prince Charming for the white +kitty, Cinderella for the Maltese and Princess Golden for the kitty with +the yellow stripes. + +So that is how the three little kittens came to live in the nursery. + +And it all turned out just as Raggedy Ann had said, for her head was +stuffed with clean white cotton, and she could think exceedingly wise +thoughts. + +And Mamma Cat found out that Fido was a very good friend, too. She grew +to trust him so much she would even let him help wash the kittens' faces. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN AND THE FAIRIES' GIFT + + +All the dolls were tucked snugly in their little doll-beds for the night +and the large house was very still. + +Every once in a while Fido would raise one ear and partly open one eye, +for his keen dog sense seemed to tell him that something was about to +happen. + +Finally he opened both eyes, sniffed into the air and, getting out of +his basket and shaking himself, he trotted across the nursery to Raggedy +Ann's bed. + +Fido put his cold nose in Raggedy Ann's neck. She raised her head from +the little pillow. + +"Oh! It's you, Fido!" said Raggedy Ann. "I dreamed the tin soldier put +an icicle down my neck!" + +"I can't sleep," Fido told Raggedy Ann. "I feel that something is about +to happen!" + +"You have been eating too many bones lately, Fido, and they keep you +awake," Raggedy replied. + +"No, it isn't that. I haven't had any bones since the folks had beef +last Sunday. It isn't that. Listen, Raggedy!" + +Raggedy Ann listened. + +There was a murmur as if someone were singing, far away. + +"What is it?" asked Fido. + +"Sh!" cautioned Raggedy Ann, "It's music." + +It was indeed music, the most beautiful music Raggedy Ann had ever +heard. + +It grew louder, but still seemed to be _far_ away. + +Raggedy Ann and Fido could hear it distinctly and it sounded as if +hundreds of voices were singing in unison. + +"Please don't howl, Fido," Raggedy Ann said as she put her two rag arms +around the dog's nose. Fido usually "sang" when he heard music. + +But Fido did not sing this time; he was filled with wonder. It seemed as +if something very nice was going to happen. + +Raggedy Ann sat upright in bed. The room was flooded with a strange, +beautiful light and the music came floating in through the nursery +window. + +Raggedy Ann hopped from her bed and ran across the floor, trailing the +bed clothes behind her. Fido followed close behind and together they +looked out the window across the flower garden. + +There among the flowers were hundreds of tiny beings, some playing on +tiny reed instruments and flower horns, while others sang. This was the +strange, wonderful music Raggedy and Fido had heard. + +"It's the Fairies!" said Raggedy Ann. "To your basket quick, Fido! They +are coming this way!" And Raggedy Ann ran back to her bed, with the bed +clothes trailing behind her. + +Fido gave three jumps and he was in his basket, pretending he was sound +asleep, but one little black eye was peeping through a chink in the +side. + +Raggedy jumped into her bed and pulled the covers to her chin, but lay +so that her shoe-button eyes could see towards the window. + +[Illustration] + +Little Fairy forms radiant as silver came flitting into the nursery, +singing in far away voices. They carried a little bundle. A beautiful +light came from this bundle, and to Raggedy Ann and Fido it seemed like +sunshine and moonshine mixed. It was a soft mellow light, just the +sort of light you would expect to accompany Fairy Folk. + +[Illustration] + +As Raggedy watched, her candy heart went pitty-pat against her cotton +stuffing, for she saw a tiny pink foot sticking out of the bundle of +light. + +The Fairy troop sailed across the nursery and through the door with +their bundle and Raggedy Ann and Fido listened to their far away music +as they went down the hall. + +Presently the Fairies returned without the bundle and disappeared +through the nursery window. + +Raggedy Ann and Fido again ran to the window and saw the Fairy troop +dancing among the flowers. + +The light from the bundle still hung about the nursery and a strange +lovely perfume floated about. + +When the Fairies' music ceased and they had flown away, Raggedy Ann and +Fido returned to Raggedy's bed to think it all out. + +When old Mister Sun peeped over the garden wall and into the nursery, +and the other dolls awakened, Raggedy Ann and Fido were still puzzled. + +"What is it, Raggedy Ann?" asked the tin soldier and Uncle Clem, in one +voice. + +Before Raggedy Ann could answer, Marcella came running into the nursery, +gathered up all the dolls in her arms, and ran down the hall, Fido +jumping beside her and barking shrilly. + +"Be quiet!" Marcella said to Fido, "It's asleep and you might awaken +it!" + +Mamma helped Marcella arrange all the dolls in a circle around the bed +so that they could all see what was in the bundle. + +Mamma gently pulled back the soft covering and the dolls saw a tiny +little fist as pink as coral, a soft little face with a cunning tiny +pink nose, and a little head as bald as the French dolly's when her hair +came off. + +My, how the dollies all chattered when they were once again left alone +in the nursery! + +[Illustration] + +"A dear cuddly baby brother for Mistress!" said Uncle Clem. + +"A beautiful bundle of love and Fairy Sunshine for everybody in the +house!" said Raggedy Ann, as she went to the toy piano and joyously +played "Peter-Peter-Pumpkin-Eater" with one rag hand. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN AND THE CHICKENS + + +When Marcella was called into the house she left Raggedy sitting on the +chicken yard fence. "Now you sit quietly and do not stir," Marcella told +Raggedy Ann, "If you move you may fall and hurt yourself!" + +So, Raggedy Ann sat quietly, just as Marcella told her, but she smiled +at the chickens for she had fallen time and again and it had never hurt +her in the least. She was stuffed with nice soft cotton, you see. + +So, there she sat until a tiny little humming-bird, in search of flower +honey hummed close to Raggedy Ann's head and hovered near the tall +Hollyhocks. + +Raggedy Ann turned her rag head to see the humming-bird and lost her +balance--_plump!_ she went, down amongst the chickens. + +The chickens scattered in all directions, all except Old Ironsides, the +rooster. + +He ruffled his neck feathers and put his head down close to the ground, +making a queer whistling noise as he looked fiercely at Raggedy Ann. + +But Raggedy Ann only smiled at Old Ironsides, the rooster, and ran her +rag hand through her yarn hair for she did not fear him. + +And then something strange happened, for when she made this motion the +old rooster jumped up in the air and kicked his feet out in front, +knocking Raggedy Ann over and over. + +When Raggedy Ann stopped rolling she waved her apron at the rooster and +cried, "Shoo!" but instead of "shooing," Old Ironsides upset her again. + +Now, two old hens who had been watching the rooster jump at Raggedy ran +up and as one old hen placed herself before the rooster, the other old +hen caught hold of Raggedy's apron and dragged her into the +chicken-coop. + +It was dark inside and Raggedy could not tell what was going on as she +felt herself being pulled up over the nests. + +But, finally Raggedy could sit up, for the old hen had quit pulling her, +and as her shoe-button eyes were very good, she soon made out the shape +of the old hen in front of her. + +"My! that's the hardest work I have done in a long time!" said the old +hen, when she could catch her breath. "I was afraid Mr. Rooster would +tear your dress and apron!" + +"That was a queer game he was playing, Mrs. Hen," said Raggedy Ann. + +The old hen chuckled 'way down in her throat, "Gracious me! He wasn't +playing a game, he was fighting you!" + +"Fighting!" cried Raggedy Ann in surprise. + +"Oh yes, indeed!" the old hen answered, "Old Ironsides, the rooster, +thought you intended to harm some of the children chickens and he was +fighting you!" + +"I am sorry that I fell inside the pen, I wouldn't harm anything," +Raggedy Ann said. + +"If we tell you a secret you must promise not to tell your mistress!" +said the old hens. + +"I promise! Cross my candy heart!" said Raggedy Ann. + +Then the two old hens took Raggedy Ann 'way back in the farthest corner +of the chicken coop. There, in back of a box, they had built two nests +and each old hen had ten eggs in her nest. + +"If your folks hear of it they will take the eggs!" said the hens, "and +then we could not raise our families!" + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Raggedy Ann felt the eggs and they were nice and warm. + +"We just left the nests when you fell into the pen!" explained the old +hens. + +"But how can the eggs grow if you sit upon them?" said Raggedy. "If Fido +sits on any of the garden, the plants will not grow, Mistress says!" + +"Eggs are different!" one old hen explained. "In order to make the eggs +hatch properly, we must sit on them three weeks and not let them get +cold at any time!" + +"And at the end of the three weeks do the eggs sprout?" asked Raggedy +Ann. + +"You must be thinking of eggplant!" cried one old hen. "These eggs hatch +at the end of three weeks--they don't sprout--and then we have a lovely +family of soft downy chickies; little puff balls that we can cuddle +under our wings and love dearly!" + +"Have you been sitting upon the eggs very long?" Raggedy asked. + +"Neither one of us has kept track of the time," said one hen. "So we do +not know! You see, we never leave the nests only just once in a while to +get a drink and to eat a little. So we can hardly tell when it is day +and when it is night." + +"We were going out to get a drink when you fell in the pen!" said one +old hen. "Now we will have to sit upon the eggs and warm them up again!" + +The two old hens spread their feathers and nestled down upon the nests. + +"When you get them good and warm, I would be glad to sit upon the eggs +to keep them warm until you get something to eat and drink!" said +Raggedy. So the two old hens walked out of the coop to finish their meal +which had been interrupted by Raggedy's fall and while they were gone, +Raggedy Ann sat quietly upon the warm eggs. Suddenly down beneath her +she heard something go, "Pick, pick!" "I hope it isn't a mouse!" Raggedy +Ann said to herself, when she felt something move. "I wish the old hens +would come back." But when they came back and saw the puzzled expression +on her face, they cried, "What is it?" + +[Illustration] + +Raggedy Ann got to her feet and looked down and there were several +little fluffy, cuddly baby chickies, round as little puff-balls. + +"Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" they cried when Raggedy stepped out of the nest. + +"Baby Chicks!" Raggedy cried, as she stooped and picked up one of the +little puff-balls. "They want to be cuddled!" + +The two old hens, their eyes shining with happiness, got upon the nests +and spread out their soft warm feathers, "The other eggs will hatch +soon!" said they. + +So, for several days Raggedy helped the two hens hatch out the rest of +the chickies and just as they finished, Marcella came inside looking +around. + +"How in the world did you get in here, Raggedy Ann?" she cried. "I have +been looking all about for you! Did the chickens drag you in here?" + +Both old hens down behind the box clucked softly to the chickies beneath +them and Marcella overheard them. + +She lifted the box away and gave a little squeal of surprise and +happiness. + +"Oh you dear old Hennypennies!" she cried, lifting both old hens from +their nests. "You have hidden your nests away back here and now you have +one, two, three, four--twenty chickies!" and as she counted them, +Marcella placed them in her apron; then catching up Raggedy Ann, she +placed her over the new little chickies. + +"Come on, old Hennypennies!" she said, and went out of the coop with the +two old hens clucking at her heels. + +Marcella called Daddy and Daddy rolled two barrels out under one of the +trees and made a nice bed in each. Then he nailed slats across the +front, leaving a place for a door. Each Hennypennie was then given ten +little chickies and shut up in the barrel. And all the dolls were happy +when they heard of Raggedy's adventure and they did not have to wait +long before they were all taken out to see the new chickies. + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN AND THE MOUSE + + +Jeanette was a new wax doll, and like Henny, the Dutch doll, she could +say "Mamma" when anyone tipped her backward or forward. She had lovely +golden brown curls of real hair. It could be combed and braided, or +curled or fluffed without tangling, and Raggedy Ann was very proud when +Jeanette came to live with the dolls. + +But now Raggedy Ann was very angry--in fact, Raggedy Ann had just ripped +two stitches out of the top of her head when she took her rag hands and +pulled her rag face down into a frown (but when she let go of the frown +her face stretched right back into her usual cheery smile). + +And _you_ would have been angry, too, for something had happened to +Jeanette. + +Something or someone had stolen into the nursery that night when the +dolls were asleep and nibbled all the wax from Jeanette's beautiful +face--and now all her beauty was gone! + +"It really is a shame!" said Raggedy Ann as she put her arms about +Jeanette. + +"Something must be done about it!" said the French doll as she stamped +her little foot. + +"If I catch the culprit, I will--well, I don't know what I will do with +him!" said the tin soldier, who could be very fierce at times, although +he was seldom cross. + +"Here is the hole he came from!" cried Uncle Clem from the other end of +the nursery. "Come, see!" + +All the dolls ran to where Uncle Clem was, down on his hands and knees. + +"This must be the place!" said Raggedy Ann. "We will plug up the hole +with something, so he will not come out again!" + +The dolls hunted around and brought rags and pieces of paper and pushed +them into the mouse's doorway. + +"I thought I heard nibbling last night," one of the penny dolls said. +"You know I begged for an extra piece of pie last evening, when Mistress +had me at the table and it kept me awake!" + +While the dolls were talking, Marcella ran down-stairs with Jeanette and +told Daddy and Mamma, who came up-stairs with Marcella and hunted around +until they discovered the mouse's doorway. + +"Oh, why couldn't it have chewed on me?" Raggedy Ann asked herself when +she saw Marcella's sorrowful face, for Raggedy Ann was never selfish. + +"Daddy will take Jeanette down-town with him and have her fixed up as +good as new," said Mamma, so Jeanette was wrapped in soft tissue paper +and taken away. + +Later in the day Marcella came bouncing into the nursery with a surprise +for the dolls. It was a dear fuzzy little kitten. + +Marcella introduced the kitten to all the dolls. + +"Her name is Boots, because she has four little white feet!" said +Marcella. So Boots, the happy little creature, played with the penny +dolls, scraping them over the floor and peeping out from behind chairs +and pouncing upon them as if they were mice and the penny dolls enjoyed +it hugely. + +When Marcella was not in the nursery, Raggedy Ann wrestled with Boots +and they would roll over and over upon the floor, Boots with her front +feet around Raggedy Ann's neck and kicking with her hind feet. + +[Illustration] + +Then Boots would arch her back and pretend she was very angry and walk +sideways until she was close to Raggedy. Then she would jump at her and +over and over they would roll, their heads hitting the floor +bumpity-bump. + +Boots slept in the nursery that night and was lonely for her Mamma, for +it was the first time she had been away from home. + +Even though her bed was right on top of Raggedy Ann, she could not +sleep. But Raggedy Ann was very glad to have Boots sleep with her, even +if she was heavy, and when Boots began crying for her Mamma, Raggedy Ann +comforted her and soon Boots went to sleep. + +One day Jeanette came home. She had a new coating of wax on her face and +she was as beautiful as ever. + +Now, by this time Boots was one of the family and did not cry at night. +Besides Boots was told of the mouse in the corner and how he had eaten +Jeanette's wax, so she promised to sleep with one eye open. + +Late that night when Boots was the only one awake, out popped a tiny +mouse from the hole. Boots jumped after the mouse, and hit against the +toy piano and made the keys tinkle so loudly it awakened the dolls. + +They ran over to where Boots sat growling with the tiny mouse in her +mouth. + +My! how the mouse was squeaking! + +Raggedy Ann did not like to hear it squeak, but she did not wish +Jeanette to have her wax face chewed again, either. + +So, Raggedy Ann said to the tiny little mouse, "You should have known +better than to come here when Boots is with us. Why don't you go out in +the barn and live where you will not destroy anything of value?" + +"I did not know!" squeaked the little mouse, "This is the first time I +have ever been here!" + +"Aren't you the little mouse who nibbled Jeanette's wax face?" Raggedy +Ann asked. + +"No!" the little mouse answered. "I was visiting the mice inside the +walls and wandered out here to pick up cake crumbs! I have three little +baby mice at home down in the barn. I have never nibbled at anyone's wax +face!" + +"Are you a Mamma mouse?" Uncle Clem asked. + +"Yes!" the little mouse squeaked, "and if the kitten will let me go I +will run right home to my children and never return again!" + +"Let her go, Boots!" the dolls all cried, "She has three little baby +mice at home! Please let her go!" + +"No, sir!" Boots growled, "This is the first mouse I have ever caught +and I will eat her!" At this the little Mamma mouse began squeaking +louder than ever. + +"If you do not let the Mamma mouse go, Boots, I shall not play with you +again!" said Raggedy Ann. + +"Raggedy will not play with Boots again!" said all of the dolls in an +awed tone. Not to have Raggedy play with them would have been sad, +indeed. + +But Boots only growled. + +The dolls drew to one side, where Raggedy Ann and Uncle Clem whispered +together. + +And while they whispered Boots would let the little Mamma mouse run a +piece, then she would catch it again and box it about between her paws. + +This she did until the poor little Mamma mouse grew so tired it could +scarcely run away from Boots. + +Boots would let it get almost to the hole in the wall before she would +catch it, for she knew it would not escape her. + +As she watched the little mouse crawling towards the hole scarcely able +to move, Raggedy Ann could not keep the tears from her shoe-button eyes. + +Finally as Boots started to spring after the little mouse again, Raggedy +Ann threw her rag arms around the kitten's neck. "Run, Mamma mouse!" +Raggedy Ann cried, as Boots whirled her over and over. + +Uncle Clem ran and pushed the Mamma mouse into the hole and then she was +gone. + +When Raggedy Ann took her arms from around Boots, the kitten was very +angry. She laid her ears back and scratched Raggedy Ann with her claws. + +But Raggedy Ann only smiled--it did not hurt her a bit for Raggedy was +sewed together with a needle and thread and if that did not hurt, how +could the scratch of a kitten? Finally Boots felt ashamed of herself and +went over and lay down by the hole in the wall in hopes the mouse would +return, but the mouse never returned. Even then Mamma mouse was out in +the barn with her children, warning them to beware of kittens and cats. + +Raggedy Ann and all the dolls then went to bed and Raggedy had just +dozed off to sleep when she felt something jump upon her bed. It was +Boots. She felt a warm little pink tongue caress her rag cheek. Raggedy +Ann smiled happily to herself, for Boots had curled up on top of Raggedy +Ann and was purring herself to sleep. + +Then Raggedy Ann knew she had been forgiven for rescuing the Mamma mouse +and she smiled herself to sleep and dreamed happily of tomorrow. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +RAGGEDY ANN'S NEW SISTERS + + +Marcella was having a tea party up in the nursery when Daddy called to +her, so she left the dollies sitting around the tiny table and ran down +stairs carrying Raggedy Ann with her. + +Mama, Daddy and a strange man were talking in the living room and Daddy +introduced Marcella to the stranger. + +The stranger was a large man with kindly eyes and a cheery smile, as +pleasant as Raggedy Ann's. + +He took Marcella upon his knee and ran his fingers through her curls as +he talked to Daddy and Mamma, so, of course, Raggedy Ann liked him from +the beginning. "I have two little girls," he told Marcella. "Their names +are Virginia and Doris, and one time when we were at the sea-shore they +were playing in the sand and they covered up Freddy, Doris' boy-doll in +the sand. They were playing that Freddy was in bathing and that he +wanted to be covered with the clean white sand, just as the other +bathers did. And when they had covered Freddy they took their little +pails and shovels and went farther down the beach to play and forgot all +about Freddy. + +"Now when it came time for us to go home, Virginia and Doris remembered +Freddy and ran down to get him, but the tide had come in and Freddy was +'way out under the water and they could not find him. Virginia and +Doris were very sad and they talked of Freddy all the way home." + +"It was too bad they forgot Freddy," said Marcella. + +"Yes, indeed it was!" the new friend replied as he took Raggedy Ann up +and made her dance on Marcella's knee. "But it turned out all right +after all, for do you know what happened to Freddy?" + +"No, what did happen to him?" Marcella asked. + +"Well, first of all, when Freddy was covered with the sand, he enjoyed +it immensely. And he did not mind it so much when the tide came up over +him, for he felt Virginia and Doris would return and get him. + +"But presently Freddy felt the sand above him move as if someone was +digging him out. Soon his head was uncovered and he could look right up +through the pretty green water, and what do you think was happening? The +Tide Fairies were uncovering Freddy! + +"When he was completely uncovered, the Tide Fairies swam with Freddy +'way out to the Undertow Fairies. The Undertow Fairies took Freddy and +swam with him 'way out to the Roller Fairies. The Roller Fairies carried +Freddy up to the surface and tossed him up to the Spray Fairies who +carried him to the Wind Fairies." + +"And the Wind Fairies?" Marcella asked breathlessly. + +"The Wind Fairies carried Freddy right to our garden and there Virginia +and Doris found him, none the worse for his wonderful adventure!" + +"Freddy must have enjoyed it and your little girls must have been very +glad to get Freddy back again!" said Marcella. "Raggedy Ann went up in +the air on the tail of a kite one day and fell and was lost, so now I am +very careful with her!" + +"Would you let me take Raggedy Ann for a few days?" asked the new +friend. + +Marcella was silent. She liked the stranger friend, but she did not wish +to lose Raggedy Ann. + +[Illustration] + +"I will promise to take very good care of her and return her to you in a +week. Will you let her go with me, Marcella?" + +Marcella finally agreed and when the stranger friend left, he placed +Raggedy Ann in his grip. + +"It is lonely without Raggedy Ann!" said the dollies each night. + +"We miss her happy painted smile and her cheery ways!" they said. + +And so the week dragged by.... + +But, my! What a chatter there was in the nursery the first night after +Raggedy Ann returned. All the dolls were so anxious to hug Raggedy Ann +they could scarcely wait until Marcella had left them alone. + +When they had squeezed Raggedy Ann almost out of shape and she had +smoothed out her yarn hair, patted her apron out and felt her +shoe-button eyes to see if they were still there, she said, "Well, what +have you been doing? Tell me all the news!" + +"Oh we have just had the usual tea parties and games!" said the tin +soldier. "Tell us about yourself, Raggedy dear, we have missed you so +much!" + +"Yes! Tell us where you have been and what you have done, Raggedy!" all +the dolls cried. + +But Raggedy Ann just then noticed that one of the penny dolls had a hand +missing. + +"How did this happen?" she asked as she picked up the doll. + +"I fell off the table and lit upon the tin soldier last night when we +were playing. But don't mind a little thing like that, Raggedy Ann," +replied the penny doll. "Tell us of yourself! Have you had a nice time?" + +"I shall not tell a thing until your hand is mended!" Raggedy Ann said. + +So the Indian ran and brought a bottle of glue. "Where's the hand?" +Raggedy asked. + +"In my pocket," the penny doll answered. + +[Illustration] + +When Raggedy Ann had glued the penny doll's hand in place and wrapped +a rag around it to hold it until the glue dried, she said, "When I tell +you of this wonderful adventure, I know you will all feel very happy. +It has made me almost burst my stitches with joy." + +The dolls all sat upon the floor around Raggedy Ann, the tin soldier +with his arm over her shoulder. + +"Well, first when I left," said Raggedy Ann, "I was placed in the +Stranger Friend's grip. It was rather stuffy in there, but I did not +mind it; in fact I believe I must have fallen asleep, for when I +awakened I saw the Stranger Friend's hand reaching into the grip. Then +he lifted me from the grip and danced me upon his knee. 'What do you +think of her?' he asked to three other men sitting nearby. + +"I was so interested in looking out of the window I did not pay any +attention to what they said, for we were on a train and the scenery was +just flying by! Then I was put back in the grip. + +"When next I was taken from the grip I was in a large, clean, light room +and there were many, many girls all dressed in white aprons. + +"The stranger friend showed me to another man and to the girls who took +off my clothes, cut my seams and took out my cotton. And what do you +think! They found my lovely candy heart had not melted at all as I +thought. Then they laid me on a table and marked all around my outside +edges with a pencil on clean white cloth, and then the girls re-stuffed +me and dressed me. + +"I stayed in the clean big light room for two or three days and nights +and watched my Sisters grow from pieces of cloth into rag dolls just +like myself!" + +"Your SISTERS!" the dolls all exclaimed in astonishment, "What do you +mean, Raggedy?" + +"I mean," said Raggedy Ann, "that the Stranger Friend had borrowed me +from Marcella so that he could have patterns made from me. And before I +left the big clean white room there where hundreds of rag dolls so like +me you would not have been able to tell us apart." + +"We could have told _you_ by your happy smile!" cried the French dolly. + +"But all of my sister dolls have smiles just like mine!" replied Raggedy +Ann. + +"And shoe-button eyes?" the dolls all asked. + +"Yes, shoe-button eyes!" Raggedy Ann replied. + +"I would tell you from the others by your dress, Raggedy Ann," said the +French doll, "Your dress is fifty years old! I could tell you by that!" + +"But my new sister rag dolls have dresses just like mine, for the +Stranger Friend had cloth made especially for them exactly like mine." + +"I know how we could tell you from the other rag dolls, even if you all +look exactly alike!" said the Indian doll, who had been thinking for a +long time. + +"How?" asked Raggedy Ann with a laugh. + +"By feeling your candy heart! If the doll has a candy heart then it is +you, Raggedy Ann!" + +Raggedy Ann laughed, "I am so glad you all love me as you do, but I am +sure you would not be able to tell me from my new sisters, except that I +am more worn, for each new rag doll has a candy heart, and on it is +written, '_I love you_' just as is written on my own candy heart." + +"And there are hundreds and hundreds of the new rag dolls?" asked the +little penny dolls. + +"Hundreds and hundreds of them, all named Raggedy Ann," replied Raggedy. + +"Then," said the penny dolls, "we are indeed happy and proud for you! +For wherever one of the new Raggedy Ann dolls goes there will go with it +the love and happiness that _you_ give to others." + +[Illustration] + +[Transcriber's Notes: + +There are a few variations in hyphenation between the introduction and +the stories themselves. + +"Today" and "downstairs" occur in the introduction, while "to-day" and +"down-stairs" are in the stories. + +Chicken coop is spelled once with and once without the hyphen.] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Raggedy Ann Stories, by Johnny Gruelle + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RAGGEDY ANN STORIES *** + +***** This file should be named 18190.txt or 18190.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/9/18190/ + +Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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