nd 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.

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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.

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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 da