Their little mistress had positioned them everywhere in the room and advised them to be high-quality youngsters whileshe became away.
And there they sat and never even so much as wiggled a finger, till their mistress had left the room.
Then the soldier dolly grew to become his head and solemnly winked at Raggedy Ann.
And while the the front gate clicked and the dollies knew they were on my own in the house, they all scrambled to their toes.
“Now let’s have an amazing time!” cried the tin soldier. “permit’s all go looking for some thing to devour!”
“yes! allow’s all go searching for something to eat!” cried all of the other dollies.
“while Mistress had me out playing along with her this morning,” said Raggedy Ann, “she carried me by a door close to the again of the residence and that i smelled something which smelled as though it'd flavor scrumptious!”
“then you lead the way, Raggedy Ann!” cried the French dolly.
“I assume it would be an awesome plan to choose Raggedy Ann as our leader on this excursion!” said the Indian doll.
At this all of the other dolls clapped their fingers collectively and shouted, “Hurrah! Raggedy Ann can be our leader.”
So Raggedy Ann, very proud certainly to have the self assurance and love of all of the different dollies, stated that she might be very satisfied to be their chief.
“observe me!” she cried as her wobbly legs carried her throughout the floor at a active tempo.
the alternative dollies followed, racing about the residence till they came to the pantry door. “that is the region!” cried Raggedy Ann, and positive sufficient, all of the dollies smelled some thing which they knew have to be superb to consume.
but none of the dollies became tall sufficient to open the door and, even though they pushed and pulled with all their may, the door remained tightly closed.
The dollies were talking and pulling and pushing and every every now and then one would fall over and the others wouldstep on her of their efforts to open the door. sooner or later Raggedy Ann drew far from the others and sat down at theground.
when the other dollies found Raggedy Ann sitting there, walking her rag hands thru her yarn hair, they knew she becomewondering.
“Sh! Sh!” they stated to every other and quietly went over near Raggedy Ann and sat down in front of her.
“There need to be a way to get inside,” stated Raggedy Ann.
“Raggedy says there have to be a way to get internal!” cried all the dolls.
“i'm able to’t seem to assume virtually to-day,” stated Raggedy Ann. “It feels as though my head were ripped.”
At this the French doll ran to Raggedy Ann and took off her bonnet. “yes, there is a rip for your head, Raggedy!” she statedand pulled a pin from her skirt and pinned up Raggedy’s head. “It’s no longer a totally neat activity, for I got some puckers in it!” she said.
“Oh that is ever a lot higher!” cried Raggedy Ann. “Now i'm able to assume pretty truly.”
“Now Raggedy can assume pretty clearly!” cried all of the dolls.
“My thoughts must have leaked out the rip before!” stated Raggedy Ann.
“They have to have leaked out before, pricey Raggedy!” cried all the other dolls.
“Now that i'm able to suppose so absolutely,” said Raggedy Ann, “I think the door must be locked and to get in we shouldrelease it!”
“with a purpose to be clean!” said the Dutch doll who says “Mamma” while he's tipped to and fro, “For we will have the brave tin soldier shoot the important thing out of the lock!”
“i'm able to easily do that!” cried the tin soldier, as he raised his gun.
“Oh, Raggedy Ann!” cried the French dolly. “Please do now not let him shoot!”
“No!” stated Raggedy Ann. “We must think of a quieter manner!”
After questioning quite difficult for a moment, Raggedy Ann jumped up and said: “i've it!” and he or she caught up the jumping Jack and held him as much as the door; then Jack slid up his stick and unlocked the door.
Then the dollies all pushed and the door swung open.
My! the sort of scramble! The dolls piled over one another of their choice to be the primary at the candies.
They swarmed upon the pantry cabinets and in their eagerness spilled a glass of cream which ran everywhere in theFrench dolly’s get dressed.
The Indian doll discovered some corn bread and dipping it in the molasses he sat down for an awesome ceremonial dinner.
A jar of raspberry jam changed into overturned and the dollies ate of this till their faces have been all red.
The tin soldier fell from the shelf three times and bent one in all his tin legs, however he scrambled proper again up once more.
in no way had the dolls had a lot amusing and exhilaration, and that they had all eaten their fill when they heard the press of the the front gate.
They did no longer take time to climb from the shelves, however all rolled or jumped off to the floor and scrambled returned to their room as speedy as they may run, leaving a path of bread crumbs and jam along the manner.
just as their mistress got here into the room the dolls dropped in some thing positions they befell to be in.
“this is humorous!” cried Mistress. “They were all left sitting in their places across the room! i wonder if Fido has been shaking them up!” Then she noticed Raggedy Ann’s face and picked her up. “Why Raggedy Ann, you're all sticky! I do accept as true with you are protected with jam!” and Mistress tasted Raggedy Ann’s hand. “sure! 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 at theground and left the room.
whilst 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 below the apple tree in the lawn.
There she had placed her little bathtub and wringer and she took the dolls one by one, and scrubbed them with a scrubbing brush and soused them up and down and this way and that within the cleaning soap suds until they were clean.
Then she hung all of them out at the garments-line within the sunshine to dry.
There the dolls hung all day, swinging and twisting about as the breeze swayed the clothes-line.
“I do consider she scrubbed my face so tough she wore off my smile!” said Raggedy Ann, after an hour of silence.
“No, it is nevertheless there!” stated the tin solder, as the wind twisted him round so he ought to see Raggedy. “but I do trust my arms will never paintings with out squeaking, they feel so rusted,” he added.
simply then the wind twisted the little Dutch doll and loosened his garments-pin, in order that he fell to the grass underwith a sawdusty bump and as he rolled over he stated, “Mamma!” in a squeaky voice.
overdue inside the afternoon the returned door opened and the little mistress came out with a table and chairs. After placing the desk she took all of the dolls from the line and located them approximately the desk.
they had lemonade with grape jelly in it, which made it a lovely lavender shade, and little “baby-teeny-weeny-cookies” with powdered sugar on them.
After this cute dinner, the dollies had been taken inside the residence, where that they had their hair brushed and first-class easy nighties put on.
Then they have been placed of their beds and Mistress kissed every one appropriate night and tiptoed from the room.
all the dolls lay as nonetheless as mice for a few minutes, then Raggedy Ann raised up on her cotton-stuffed elbows and stated: “i've been thinking!”
“Sh!” said all of the different dollies, “Raggedy has been questioning!”
“sure,” said Raggedy Ann, “i've been thinking; our mistress gave us the high-quality dinner out underneath the trees to educate us a lesson. She needed us to recognise that we ought to have had all the chocolates we needed, on every occasion we needed, if we had behaved ourselves. And our lesson become that we ought to by no means take with outasking what we should continually have for the asking! So allow us to all don't forget and try never once more to do anything which would possibly cause folks that love us any unhappiness!”
“allow us to all do not forget,” chimed all the different dollies.
And Raggedy Ann, with a merry twinkle in her shoe-button eyes, lay back in her little bed, her cotton head packed withthoughts of love and happiness.
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