yes. "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.

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[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 doll