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Speaker 1: Welcome sleep tight stories. Doctor Raggedy Andy, Raggedy Andy, Raggedy Ann, Uncle, Clem,

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Speaker 1: and Henny were not given medicine because you see, they

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Speaker 1: had no mouths, that is, mouths through which medicine could

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Speaker 1: be poured. Their mouths were either painted on or were

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Speaker 1: sewn on with yarn. Sometimes the medicine spoon would be

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Speaker 1: touched to their faces, but none of the liquid would

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Speaker 1: be given to them, except accidentally. But the French doll

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Speaker 1: had a lovely mouth for taking medicine. It was open

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Speaker 1: and showed her teeth in a dimpling smile. She also

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Speaker 1: had soft brown eyes which opened and closed when she

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Speaker 1: was tilted backward or forward. The medicine which was given

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Speaker 1: the dolls had great curing properties. It would cure the

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Speaker 1: most stubborn case of croup, measles, whooping cough, or any

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Speaker 1: other ailment the dolls had wished upon them by their

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Speaker 1: little girl. Some days all of the dolls would be

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Speaker 1: put in bed with measles, but in the course of

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Speaker 1: half an hour they would have every other sickness in

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Speaker 1: the doctor book. The dolls enjoyed it very much, for

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Speaker 1: you see, their little girl, Marcella, always tried the medicine

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Speaker 1: first to see if it was strong enough before she

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Speaker 1: gave any to the dolls. So the dolls really did

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Speaker 1: not get as much of the medicine as their little girl.

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Speaker 1: The wonderful remedy was made from a very old recipe

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Speaker 1: handed down from ancient times. This recipe is guaranteed to

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Speaker 1: cure every ill a doll may have. The medicine was

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Speaker 1: made from brown sugar and water. Perhaps you may have

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Speaker 1: used it for your dollies. The medicine was also used

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Speaker 1: as tea and soda water, except when the dolls were

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Speaker 1: supposed to be ill, having nothing but painted or yarn mouths.

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Speaker 1: The sicknesses that Raggedy Andy, Raggedy Ann, Uncle Clem, and

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Speaker 1: Henny the Dutch doll mostly had consisted of sprained wrists, arms,

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Speaker 1: and legs, or perhaps a headache or a toothache. None

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Speaker 1: of them knew they had the trouble until Marcella had

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Speaker 1: wrapped up the injured rag arm, leg or head and

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Speaker 1: had explained in detail just what was the matter. Raggedy Andy,

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann, Uncle Clem, or Henny were just as happy

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Speaker 1: with their heads tied up for the toothache as they

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Speaker 1: were without their heads tied up. Not having teeth, naturally,

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Speaker 1: they could not have the toothache. But if they could

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Speaker 1: make Marcella happy by having her pretend they had her toothache,

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Speaker 1: then that made them very happy. So this day the

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Speaker 1: French doll was quite ill. She started out with the

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Speaker 1: croup and went through the measles, whooping cough, and yellow

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Speaker 1: fever in an hour. The attack came on quite suddenly.

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Speaker 1: The French doll was sitting quietly in one of the

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Speaker 1: little red chairs, smiling the prettiest of dimpling smiles at

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Speaker 1: raggedy Andy and thinking of all the fun the dolls

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Speaker 1: would have that night. After the house grew quiet when

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Speaker 1: Marcella discovered that the French doll had the croup and

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Speaker 1: put her to bed. The French doll closed her eyes

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Speaker 1: when put to bed, but the rest of her face

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Speaker 1: did not change expression. She still wore her happy smile.

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Speaker 1: Marcella mixed the medicine very strong and poured it into

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Speaker 1: the French doll's open mouth. She was given a dose

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Speaker 1: every minute or so. It was during the yellow fever

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Speaker 1: stage that Marcella was called to supper and left the

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Speaker 1: dolls in the nursery alone. Marcella did not play with

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Speaker 1: them again that evening, so the dolls all remained in

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Speaker 1: the same position until Marcella and the rest of the

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Speaker 1: folks went to bed. Then Raggedy Andy jumped up from

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Speaker 1: his chair and wound the little music box. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with a lively dance, he said. When the music started tinkling,

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Speaker 1: he caught the French doll's hand and danced way across

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Speaker 1: the nursery floor before he discovered that her soft brown

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Speaker 1: eyes remained closed, as they were when she had laid

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Speaker 1: home the sick bed. All the dolls gathered around Raggedy

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Speaker 1: Andy and the French doll. I can't open my eyes,

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Speaker 1: she said. Raggedy Andy tried to open the French doll's

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Speaker 1: eyes with his soft rag hands, but it was no use.

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Speaker 1: They shook her. This sometimes has the desired effect when

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Speaker 1: dolls do not open their eyes. They shook her again,

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Speaker 1: and again it was no use. Her eyes remained closed.

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Speaker 1: It must be the sticky sugary medicine, said Uncle Clem.

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Speaker 1: I really believe it must be, the French doll replied.

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Speaker 1: The medicine seemed to settle in the back of my

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Speaker 1: head when I was lying down, and I can still

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Speaker 1: feel it back there. That must be it. And now

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Speaker 1: said Raggedy Ann. What shall we do? Raggedy Andy and

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann walked over to a corner of the nursery

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Speaker 1: and thought and thought. They pulled their foreheads down into

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Speaker 1: wrinkles with their hands so that they might think harder. Finally,

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann cried, I've thought of a plan, and went

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Speaker 1: skipping from the corner out to where the other doll sat.

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Speaker 1: About the French doll, we must stand her upon her head.

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Speaker 1: Then the medicine will run up into her hair, for

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Speaker 1: there is a hole in the top of her head.

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Speaker 1: I remember seeing it when her hair came off one time.

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Speaker 1: No sooner said than done, cried Uncle Clem, as he

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Speaker 1: upon her head. That should be long enough, Raggedy Ann said.

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Speaker 1: When Uncle Clem had the French doll in this position

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Speaker 1: for five minutes, But when the French doll was again

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Speaker 1: placed upon her feet, her eyes still remained tightly closed.

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Speaker 1: All this time, Raggedy Andy had remained in the corner,

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Speaker 1: thinking as hard as his raghead would think. He thought

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Speaker 1: and thought, until the yarn hair upon his head stood

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Speaker 1: up in the air and wiggled. If the medicine did

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Speaker 1: not run up into her hair when she stood upon

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Speaker 1: her head, thought Raggedy Andy, then it is because the

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Speaker 1: medicine could not run. So if the medicine cannot run,

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Speaker 1: it is because it is too sticky and thick to

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Speaker 1: run out of the hole in the top of her head.

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Speaker 1: He also thought a lot more. At last, he turned

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Speaker 1: to the others and said, out loud, I can't seem

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Speaker 1: to think of a single way to help her eyes

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Speaker 1: to open unless we take off her hair and washed

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Speaker 1: the medicine from inside her china head. Why didn't I

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Speaker 1: think of that, Raggedy Ann asked, That is just what

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Speaker 1: we shall have to do. So Raggedy Ann caught hold

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Speaker 1: of the French doll's feet, and Raggedy Andy caught hold

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Speaker 1: of the French doll's lively curls, and they pulled and

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Speaker 1: they pulled. Then the other dolls caught hold of Raggedy

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Speaker 1: Ann and Raggedy Andy and pulled and pulled, until finally,

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Speaker 1: with a sharp rip, the French doll's hair came off,

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Speaker 1: and the dolls who were pulling went tumbling over backwards, laughing.

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Speaker 1: They scrambled to their feet and sat the French doll

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Speaker 1: up so they might look into the hole in the

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Speaker 1: top of her head. Yes, the sticky medicine had had

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Speaker 1: grown hard and would not let the French doll's eyes open.

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Andy put his hand inside and pushed on the

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Speaker 1: eyes so they opened. This was all right, only now

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Speaker 1: the eyes would not close when the French doll lay down.

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Speaker 1: She tried it, so Raggedy Andy ran down into the

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Speaker 1: kitchen and brought up a small tin cup full of

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Speaker 1: warm water and a tiny rag. With these he loosened

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Speaker 1: the sticky medicine and washed the inside of the French

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Speaker 1: doll's head nice and clean. There were lots of cookie

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Speaker 1: and cracker crumbs inside her head, too. Raggedy Andy washed

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Speaker 1: it all nice and clean, and then wet the glue

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Speaker 1: which made the pretty curl stay on, so when her

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Speaker 1: hair was placed upon her head again, the French doll

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Speaker 1: was as good as new. Thank you all very much,

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Speaker 1: she said, as she tilted backwards and forwards, and found

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Speaker 1: that her eyes worked very easily. Raggedy Andy again wound

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Speaker 1: up the little music box and catching the French doll

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Speaker 1: about the waist started a rollicking dance, which lasted until

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Speaker 1: the roosters in the neighborhood began their morning crowing. Then,

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Speaker 1: knowing the folks might soon be awake, the dolls left

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Speaker 1: off their playing and all took the same positions they

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Speaker 1: had been in when Marcella left them the night before.

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Speaker 1: And so Marcella found them, the French doll was in

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Speaker 1: bed with her eyes closed and her happy dimpling smile

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Speaker 1: lighting up her pretty face. And to this day, the

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Speaker 1: dollies little girl does not know that Raggedy Andy was

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Speaker 1: the doctor who cured the French Doll of her only illness,