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Speaker 1: Welcome, sleep tight stories making angels in the snow. We

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Speaker 1: it's good to be back home again, said Raggedy Andy

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Speaker 1: to the other dolls, as he stretched his feet out

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Speaker 1: in front of the little toy stove and rubbed his

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Speaker 1: rag hands briskly together as if to warm them. All.

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Speaker 1: The dolls laughed at Raggedy Andy for doing this, for

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Speaker 1: they knew there had never been a fire in the

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Speaker 1: little toy stove in all the time it had been

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Speaker 1: in the nursery, and that was a long time. We

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Speaker 1: are so glad and happy to have you back home

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Speaker 1: with us, the dolls told Raggedy Andy, for we have

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Speaker 1: missed you very very much. Well, Raggedy Andy replied, as

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Speaker 1: he held his rag hands over the tiny lid of

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Speaker 1: the stove and rubbed them again. I have missed all

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Speaker 1: of you too, and wished many times that you had

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Speaker 1: been with me to join in and chair in the

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Speaker 1: pleasures and frolics I've had. And as Raggedy Andy continued

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Speaker 1: to hold his hands over the little stove, Uncle clem

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Speaker 1: asked him why he did it. Raggedy Andy smiled and

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Speaker 1: leaned back in his chair. Really, he said, I wasn't

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Speaker 1: paying any attention to what I was doing. I've spent

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Speaker 1: so much of my time while I was away drying

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Speaker 1: out my soft cotton stuffing. It seems as though it

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Speaker 1: has almost become a habit. Were you wet most of

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Speaker 1: the time, Raggedy Andy, the French doll asked, nearly all

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Speaker 1: the time, Raggedy Ann replied, first I would get sopping wet,

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Speaker 1: and then I would freeze. Freeze, said one of the dolls.

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Speaker 1: Dear me, yes, Raggedy Andy laughed. Just see here, and

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Andy pulled his sleeve up and showed where his

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Speaker 1: rag arm had been mended. That was quite a rip,

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Speaker 1: he smiled. Dear dear, How in the world did it

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Speaker 1: happen on a nail? Henny the Dutch doll asked, as

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Speaker 1: he put his arm around Raggedy Andy. Froze, said Raggedy Andy.

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Speaker 1: The dolls gathered round Raggedy Andy and examined the rip

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Speaker 1: in his rag arm. It's all right now, he laughed.

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Speaker 1: But you should have seen me when it happened. I

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Speaker 1: was frozen into one solid cake of ice all the

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Speaker 1: way through, and when Marcella tried to limber up my

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Speaker 1: arm before it had thawed out, it went pop and

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Speaker 1: just burst. Then I was placed in a pan of

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Speaker 1: nice warm water until the icy cotton inside me had melted.

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Speaker 1: And then I was hung up on a line above

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Speaker 1: the kitchen stove out at Grandma's. But how did you

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Speaker 1: happen to get so wet and then freeze, asked Raggedy Ann.

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Speaker 1: Out across the road from Grandma's house, way out in

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Speaker 1: the country, there is a lovely pond, Raggedy Andy explained,

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Speaker 1: in the summertime, pretty flowers grow about the edge. The

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Speaker 1: little green frogs sit upon the pond lilies and beat

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Speaker 1: upon their tiny drums all through the night, and the

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Speaker 1: twinkling stars wink at their reflections in the smooth water.

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Speaker 1: But when Marcella and I went out to Grandma's last week,

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Speaker 1: Grandma met us with a sleigh, for the ground was

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Speaker 1: covered with starry snow. The pretty pond was covered with ice, too,

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Speaker 1: and upon the ice was a soft blanket of the white,

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Speaker 1: white snow. It was beautiful, said Raggedy Andy. Grandma had

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Speaker 1: a lovely new sledge for Marcella, a shiny red one

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Speaker 1: with runners. And after we had visited grandma awhile, we

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Speaker 1: went to the pond for a slide. It was heaps

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Speaker 1: of fun, for there was a little hill at one

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Speaker 1: end of the pond, so that when we coasted down,

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Speaker 1: we went scooting across the pond like an arrow. Marcello

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Speaker 1: would turn the sled sideways, just for fun, and she

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Speaker 1: and I would fall off and go sliding upon the

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Speaker 1: ice on our backs, leaving a clean path of ice

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Speaker 1: where we had pushed aside the snow as we slid.

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Speaker 1: Then Marcella showed me how to make angel in the

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Speaker 1: soft snow. Oh tell us how, Raggedy Andy shouted, all

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Speaker 1: the dollies. It's very easy, said Raggedy Andy. Marcella would

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Speaker 1: lie down upon her back in the snow and put

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Speaker 1: her hands back up over her head, and then she

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Speaker 1: would bring her hands in a circle down to her

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Speaker 1: of the nursery and showed the dollies just how it

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Speaker 1: was done. Then he added, when she stood up, it

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Speaker 1: would leave the print of her body and legs in

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Speaker 1: the white, white snow. And where she had swooped her

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Speaker 1: arms there were the angel's wings. It must have looked

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Speaker 1: just like an angel, said Uncle Clem. Indeed, it was

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Speaker 1: very pretty raggedy, Andy answered. Then Marcella made a lot

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Speaker 1: my arms so you see what was falling off the

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Speaker 1: were wet, but I was completely soaked through. My cotton

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Speaker 1: just became soppy, and I was ever so much heavier.

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Speaker 1: Then Grandma, just as we were having the most delightful time,

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Speaker 1: and get a nice new doughnut. So Marcella, thinking to

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Speaker 1: and ran through the snow to Grandma's. And there I

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Speaker 1: stayed and stayed until I began to feel stiff and

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Speaker 1: could hear the cotton inside me going tick as it

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Speaker 1: began to freeze. I lay upon the sled until after

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Speaker 1: the sun went down. Two little chickadees came and sat

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Speaker 1: upon the sled and talked to me in their cute

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Speaker 1: little language. And I watched the sky in the west

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Speaker 1: get gold and red, then turn into a deep crimson purple,

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Speaker 1: and finally a deep blue as the sun went farther

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Speaker 1: been dark for some time. I heard some one come

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Speaker 1: through the snow and could see the yellow light of

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Speaker 1: a lantern. It was Grandma. She pulled the sledge over

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Speaker 1: I was upon it until she turned to go into

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Speaker 1: the kitchen. Then she picked me up and took me inside.

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Speaker 1: He's frozen as stiff as a board, she told Marcella

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Speaker 1: as she handed me to her. Marcella did not say

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Speaker 1: why she had forgotten to come for me, but I

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Speaker 1: found out afterwards that it was because she was so wet.

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Speaker 1: Grandma made her change her clothes and shoes and stockings,

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Speaker 1: and would not permit her to go out and play again. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: concluded Raggedy Andy. Marcella tried to limber my arm, and

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Speaker 1: being almost solid ice, it just burst. And that is

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Speaker 1: the way it went all the time we were at Grandma's.

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Speaker 1: I was wet nearly all the time. But I wish

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Speaker 1: you could all have been there with me to share

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Speaker 1: in the fun. And Raggedy Andy again leaned over the

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Speaker 1: Uncle Clem went to the waste paper basket and came

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Speaker 1: taking off one of the tiny lids, he stuffed the

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Speaker 1: shooting up. Then, as all the doll's merry laughter rang out,

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Andy stopped rubbing his hands, and catching Raggedy Ann

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Speaker 1: about the waist, he went skipping across the nursery floor

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Speaker 1: with her, whirling so fast neither saw that they had

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Speaker 1: gone out through the door until it was too late

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Speaker 1: for Coming to the head of the stairs, they both

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Speaker 1: went head over heels, blumpity blumpity blump, over and over

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Speaker 1: until they wound up laughing at the bottom. Last one

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Speaker 1: up is a rotten egg, cried Raggedy Ann as she

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Speaker 1: scrambled to her feet, and with her skirts in her

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Speaker 1: the rest of the dolly stood laughing. Hooray for Raggedy Ann,

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Speaker 1: cried Raggedy Andy generously. She won