d 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.

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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.

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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 a