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Speaker 1: Welcome sleep, night stories, Raggedy Ann Askew's fidol. It was

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Speaker 1: almost midnight, and the dolls were asleep in their beds,

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Speaker 1: all except Raggedy Ann. Raggedy lay there her shoe button eyes,

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Speaker 1: staring straight up at the ceiling. Every once in a while,

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann ran her rag hand through her yarn hair.

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Speaker 1: She was thinking when she had thought for a long

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Speaker 1: long time. Raggedy Ann raised herself on her wobbly elbows

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Speaker 1: and said, I've thought it all out. At this the

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Speaker 1: other dolls shook each other and raised up, saying, listen,

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Speaker 1: Raggedy has thought it all out. Tell us what you

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Speaker 1: have been thinking, Dear Raggedy, said the tin soldier. We

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Speaker 1: hope they were pleasant thoughts. Not very pleasant thoughts, said

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Speaker 1: Raggedy as she brushed a tear from her shoe button eye.

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Speaker 1: You haven't seen Fido all day, have you? Not? Since

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Speaker 1: early this morning? The French dolly said. It has troubled me,

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Speaker 1: said Raggedy, And if my head was not stuffed with

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Speaker 1: lovely new white cotton, I am sure it would have

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Speaker 1: ached with the worry. When Mistress took me into the

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Speaker 1: living room this afternoon, she was crying and I heard

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Speaker 1: her mommy say we will find him. He is sure

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Speaker 1: to come home soon, and I knew they were talking

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Speaker 1: of Fido. He must be lost. The tin soldier jumped

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Speaker 1: out of bed and ran over to Fido's basket, his

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Speaker 1: tear feet clicking on the floor as he went. He

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Speaker 1: is not here, he said. When I was sitting in

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Speaker 1: the window about noontime, said the Indian doll, I saw

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Speaker 1: Fido and a yellow, scraggly dog playing out on the lawn,

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Speaker 1: and they ran out through a hole in the fence.

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Speaker 1: That was Priscilla's dog, Peterkins, said the French doll. I

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Speaker 1: know poor mistress is very sad on account of Fido,

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Speaker 1: said the Dutch doll, because I was in the dining

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Speaker 1: room at supper time and I heard her daddy tell

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Speaker 1: her to eat her supper and he would go out

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Speaker 1: and find Fido. But I had forgotten all about it

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Speaker 1: until now. That is the trouble with all of us,

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Speaker 1: except Raggedy Ann, cried the little Penny doll in a

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Speaker 1: squeaky voice. She has to think for all of us.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be a good plan for us

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Speaker 1: to show our love for mistress and try to find Fido,

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Speaker 1: exclaimed Raggedy It is a good plan, Raggedy Ann cried.

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Speaker 1: All the dolls tell us how to start about it. Well, first,

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Speaker 1: let us go out upon the lawn and see if

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Speaker 1: we can track the dogs, said Raggedy I can track

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Speaker 1: them easily, the doll. Indian doll said, for Indians are

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Speaker 1: good at trailing things. Then let us waste no more

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Speaker 1: time in talking, said Raggedy Ann, and she jumped from bed,

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Speaker 1: followed by the rest. The nursery window was open, so

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Speaker 1: the dolls helped each other up on the sill and

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Speaker 1: then jumped to the soft grass below. They fell in

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Speaker 1: all sorts of queer attitudes, but of course the fall

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Speaker 1: did not hurt them. At the hole in the fence,

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Speaker 1: the Indian doll picked up the trail of the two dogs,

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Speaker 1: and the dolls, stringing out behind, followed him until they

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Speaker 1: came to Peterkin's house. Peterkins was surprised to see the

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Speaker 1: strange little figures in white nighties come stringing up the

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Speaker 1: path through the doghouse. Peterkins was too large to sleep

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Speaker 1: in the nursery, so he had a nice cozy doghouse

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Speaker 1: under the grape arbor. Come in Peterkins said when he

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Speaker 1: saw and recognized the dolls. So all the dollies went

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Speaker 1: into Peterkins's house and sat about while Raggedy told him

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Speaker 1: while they had why they had come. It has worried

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Speaker 1: me too, said Peterkins. But I had no way of

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Speaker 1: telling your mistress where Fido was, for she could not

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Speaker 1: understand dog language. For you see, Peterkins continued, Fido and

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Speaker 1: I were having the grandest romp over in the park

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Speaker 1: when a great big man with a funny thing on

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Speaker 1: the end of a stick came running towards us. We

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Speaker 1: barked at him, and Fido thought he was trying to

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Speaker 1: play with us and went up too close. And do

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Speaker 1: you know that wicked man caught Fido in that thing

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Speaker 1: at the end of the stick and carried him to

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Speaker 1: a wagon and dumped him in with a lot of

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Speaker 1: other dogs. The dog ketcher, cried Raggedy. Ann Yes, said Peterkins,

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Speaker 1: as he wiped his eyes with his paws. It was

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Speaker 1: the dog ketcher, For I followed the wagon at a distance,

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Speaker 1: and I saw him put all the dogs into a

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Speaker 1: big wire pen so that none could get out. Then

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Speaker 1: you know the way there, Peterkins asked, raggedy Ann. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I could find it easily, Peterkins said, Then show us

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Speaker 1: the way. Raggedy Ann cried for we must try to

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Speaker 1: rescue Fido. So Peterkins led the way up alleys and

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Speaker 1: was a strange procession. Once a strange dog ran out

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Speaker 1: at them, but Peterkins told him to mind his own business,

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Speaker 1: and the strange dog returned to his own yard. At

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Speaker 1: last they came to the dog catcher's place. Some of

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Speaker 1: the dogs in the pen were barking at the moon,

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Speaker 1: and others were whining and crying. There was Fido, all

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Speaker 1: covered with mud and his pretty red ribbon dragging on

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Speaker 1: the ground. My but he was glad to see the

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Speaker 1: dolls and Peterkins. All the dogs came to the side

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Speaker 1: of the pen and twisted their heads from side to side,

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Speaker 1: gazing in wonder at the queer figures of the dolls.

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Speaker 1: We will try and let you out, said Raggedy Ann.

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Speaker 1: At this all the dogs barked joyfully. Then Raggedy Ann,

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Speaker 1: the other dolls and Peterkins went to the gate. The

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Speaker 1: catch was too high for raggedy Ann to reach, but

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Speaker 1: Peterkins held ragged in his mouth and stood up on

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Speaker 1: his hind legs so that she could catch. When the

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Speaker 1: catch was raised, the dogs were so anxious to get

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Speaker 1: out they pushed and jumped against the gate so hard

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Speaker 1: it flew open, knocking Peterkins and raggedy Ann into the mud.

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Speaker 1: Such a yapping and barking was never heard in the

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Speaker 1: neighborhood as when the dogs swarmed out of the enclosure,

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Speaker 1: jumping over one another and scrambling about in the mad

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Speaker 1: rush out of the gate. Fido picked himself up from

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Speaker 1: where he had been rolled by the large dogs and

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Speaker 1: helped raggedy Ann to her feet. He, Peterkins, and all

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Speaker 1: the dolls ran after the pack of dogs, turning the corner,

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Speaker 1: just as the dog catcher came running out of the

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Speaker 1: house in his nightgown to see what was causing the trouble.

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Speaker 1: He stopped and astonished when he saw the string of

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Speaker 1: dolls in white nighties pattering down the alley, for he

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Speaker 1: could not imagine what they were. Well, you may be sure.

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Speaker 1: The dolls thanked Peterkins for his kind assistance, and they

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Speaker 1: and Fido ran on home, for a faint light was

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Speaker 1: beginning to show in the east, where the sun was

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Speaker 1: getting ready to come up. When they got to their

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Speaker 1: and after a great deal of work, they finally dragged

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Speaker 1: it to the window and thus managed to get into

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Speaker 1: the nursery again. Fido was very grateful to Raggedy Ann

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Speaker 1: and the other dolls, and before he went to his basket,

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Speaker 1: he gave them each a lick on the cheek. The

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Speaker 1: dolls lost no time into scrambling into bed and pulling

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Speaker 1: up the covers, for they were very sleepy. But just

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Speaker 1: as they were dozing off, raggedy Ann raised herself and said,

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Speaker 1: if my legs and arms were not stuffed with nice

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Speaker 1: clean cotton, I feel sure they would ache. But being

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Speaker 1: stuffed with nice, clean white cotton, they do not ache.

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Speaker 1: And I could not feel happier if my body were

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Speaker 1: stuffed with sunshine, for I know how pleased and happy

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Speaker 1: Mistress will be in the morning when she discovers Fido

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Speaker 1: asleep in his own little basket, safe and sound at home.

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Speaker 1: And as the dollies by this time were all asleep,

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann pulled the sheet up to her chin and

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Speaker 1: smiled so hard she ripped two stitches out of the

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Speaker 1: back of her rag head,