life.

Yours lovingly,
Mom.

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CONTENTS

HOW RAGGEDY ANDY CAME
THE NURSERY DANCE
THE SPINNING WHEEL
THE TAFFY PULL
THE RABBIT CHASE
THE NEW TIN GUTTER
DOCTOR RAGGEDY ANDY
RAGGEDY ANDY'S SMILE
THE WOODEN HORSE
MAKING "ANGELS" IN THE SNOW
THE SINGING SHELL

[Illustration: Raggedy Ann and Books]

HOW RAGGEDY ANDY CAME

One day Daddy took Raggedy Ann down to his office and propped her up
against some books upon his desk; he wanted to have her where he could
see her cheery smile all day, for, as you must surely know, smiles and
happiness are truly catching.

Daddy wished to catch a whole lot of Raggedy Ann's cheeriness and
happiness and put all this down on paper, so that those who did not have
Raggedy Ann dolls might see just how happy and smiling a rag doll can
be.

So Raggedy Ann stayed at Daddy's studio for three or four days.

She was missed very, very much at home and Marcella really longed for
her, but knew that Daddy was borrowing some of Raggedy Ann's sunshine,
so she did not complain.

Raggedy Ann did not complain either, for in addition to the sunny, happy
smile she always wore (it was painted on), Raggedy Ann had a candy
heart, and of course no one (not even a rag doll) ever complains if they
have such happiness about them.

One evening, just as Daddy was finishing his day's work, a messenger boy
came with a package; a nice, soft lumpy package.

Daddy opened the nice, soft lumpy package and found a letter.

Gran'ma had told Daddy, long before this, that at the time Raggedy Ann
was made, a neighbor lady had made a boy doll, Raggedy Andy, for her
little girl, who always played with Gran'ma.

And when Gran'ma told Daddy this she wondered whatever had become of her
little playmate and the boy doll, Raggedy Andy.

After reading the letter, Daddy opened the other package which had been
inside the nice, soft, lumpy package and found--Raggedy Andy.

Raggedy Andy had been carefully folded up.

His soft, loppy arms were folded up in front of him and his soft, loppy
legs were folded over his soft, loppy arms, and they were held this way
by a rubber band.

Raggedy Andy must have wondered why he was being "done up" this way, but
it could n