Now, where do you suppose Raggedy Ann was all this time?

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When Raggedy Ann dropped from the kite, the wind caught in her skirts and carried her along until she fell in the fork of the large elm tree directly over Marcella’s house.  When Raggedy Ann fell with a thud, face up in the fork of the tree, two robins who had a nest near by flew chattering away.

Presently the robins returned and quarreled at Raggedy Ann for laying so close to their nest, but Raggedy Ann only smiled at them and did not move.

When the robins quieted down and quit their quarreling, one of them hopped up closer to Raggedy Ann in order to investigate.

It was Mamma Robin.  She called to Daddy Robin and told him to come.  “See the nice yarn!  We could use it to line the nest with,” she said.

So the robins hopped closer to Raggedy Ann and asked if they might have some of her yarn hair to line their nest.  Raggedy Ann smiled at them.  So the two robins pulled and tugged at Raggedy Ann’s yarn hair until they had enough to line their nest nice and soft.

Evening came and the robins sang their good night songs, and Raggedy Ann watched the stars come out, twinkle all night and disappear in the morning light.  In the morning the robins again pulled yarn from Raggedy Ann’s head, and loosened her so she could peep over the side of the limb, and when the sun came up Raggedy Ann saw she was in the trees in her own yard.

Now before she could eat any breakfast, Marcella started out to find Raggedy Ann.  And, it was Marcella herself who found her.  And this is how she did it.

Mamma Robin had seen Marcella with Raggedy Ann out in the yard many times, so she began calling “Cheery!  Cheery!” and Daddy Robin started calling “Cheery!  Cheery!  Cheer up!  Cheer up!  Cheerily Cheerily!  Cheery!  Cheery!” And Marcella looking up into the tree above the house to see the robins, discovered Raggedy Ann peeping over the limb at her.

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Oh, how her heart beat with happiness.  “Here is Raggedy Ann,” she shouted.

And Mamma and Daddy came out and saw Raggedy smiling at them, and Daddy got the clothes prop and climbed out of the attic window and poked Raggedy Ann out of the tree and she fell right into Marcella’s arms where she was hugged in a tight embrace.

“You’ll never go up on a kite again, Raggedy Ann!” said Marcella, “for I felt so lost without you.  I will never let you leave me again.”

So Raggedy Ann went into the house and had breakfast with her little mistress and Mamma and Daddy smiled at each other when they peeped through the door into the breakfast room, for Raggedy Ann’s smile was wide and very yellow.  Marcella, her heart full of happiness, was feeding Raggedy Ann part of her egg.

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RAGGEDY ANN RESCUES FIDO