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Speaker 1: Welcome, sleep tight stories, Raggedy.

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Speaker 2: Ann and the kite. Raggedy Ann watched with interest the preparations.

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Speaker 2: A number of sticks were being fastened together with strings

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Speaker 2: and covered with light cloth. Raggedy Ann heard some of

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Speaker 2: the boys talk of the kite, so Raggedy Ann knew

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Speaker 2: this must be a kite. When a tail had been

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Speaker 2: fastened to the kite and a large ball of heavy

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Speaker 2: twine tied to the front, one of the boys held

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Speaker 2: the kite up in the air and another boy walked

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Speaker 2: off unwinding the ball of twine. There was a nice

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Speaker 2: breeze blowing, so the boy with the twine called let

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Speaker 2: her go and started running. Marcella held Raggedy up so

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Speaker 2: that she could watch the kite sail through the air.

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Speaker 2: How nicely it climbed. But suddenly the kite acted strangely,

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Speaker 2: and as all the children shouted advice to the boy

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Speaker 2: with the ball of twine, the kite began darting this

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Speaker 2: way and that, and finally making four or five loop

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Speaker 2: the loops, it crashed to the ground. It needs more

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Speaker 2: tail on it, one boy shouted. Then the children asked

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Speaker 2: each other where they might get more rags to fasten

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Speaker 2: to the tail of the kite. Let's tie raggedy Ann

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Speaker 2: to the tail, suggested Marcella, I know she would enjoy

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Speaker 2: a trip way up in the sky. The boys all

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Speaker 2: shouted with delight at this new suggestion, so Raggedy Ann

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Speaker 2: was tied to the tail of the kite. This time,

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Speaker 2: the kite rose straight in the air and remained steady

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Speaker 2: the boy with the ball of twine unwounded until the

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Speaker 2: kite and raggedy Ann were way way up and far away.

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Speaker 2: How raggedy Ann enjoyed being up there. She could see

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Speaker 2: for miles and miles, and how tiny the children looked.

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Speaker 2: Suddenly a great puff of wind came and carried raggedy

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Speaker 2: Ann streaming way out behind the kite. She could hear

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Speaker 2: the wind singing on the twine as the strain increased.

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Speaker 2: Suddenly raggedy Ann felt something rip. It was the rag

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Speaker 2: to which she was tied. As each puff of wind

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Speaker 2: caught her, the rip widened. When Marcella watched raggedy Ann

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Speaker 2: rise high above the field, she wondered how much raggedy

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Speaker 2: Ann enjoyed it, and wished that she too might have

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Speaker 2: gone along. But after the kite had been up in

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Speaker 2: the air, for five or ten minutes. Marcella grew restless.

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Speaker 2: Kites were rather tiresome. There was more fun in tea

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Speaker 2: parties out under the apple tree. Will you please pull

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Speaker 2: the kite down now, she asked the boy with the twine.

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Speaker 2: I want Raggedy Ann. Let her ride up there. The

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Speaker 2: boy replied, we'll bring her home when we pulled down

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Speaker 2: the kite. We're going to get another ball of twine

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Speaker 2: and let her go higher. Marcella did not like to

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Speaker 2: leave Raggedy Ann with the boys, so she sat down

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Speaker 2: upon the ground to wait until they pulled down the kite.

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Speaker 2: But while Marcella watched raggedy Ann a dot in the sky,

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Speaker 2: she could not see the wind ripping the rag to

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Speaker 2: which Ragggedy was tied. Suddenly, the rag parted and Raggedy

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Speaker 2: Ann went sailing away as the wind caught in her skirts.

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Speaker 2: Marcella jumped from the ground, too surprised to say anything.

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Speaker 2: The kite, released from the weight of Raggedy Ann, began

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Speaker 2: darting and swooping to the ground. We'll get her for you,

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Speaker 2: some of the boys said when they saw Marcella's troubled face,

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Speaker 2: and they started running in the direction Raggedy Ann had fallen.

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Speaker 2: Marcella and the other girls ran with them. They ran,

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Speaker 2: and they ran, and they ran, and at last they

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Speaker 2: found the kite upon the ground, with one of the

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Speaker 2: sticks broken. But they could not find Raggedy Ann anywhere.

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Speaker 2: She must have fallen almost in your yard, a boy

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Speaker 2: said to Marcella, for the kite was directly over here.

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Speaker 2: When the doll fell. Marcella was heartbroken. She went into

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Speaker 2: the house and lay on the bed. Mama went out

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Speaker 2: with the children and tried to find Raggedy Ann, but

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Speaker 2: Raggedy Ann was nowhere to be seen. When Daddy came

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Speaker 2: home in the evening, he tried to find raggedy but

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Speaker 2: met with no success. Marcella had eaten hardly any dinner,

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Speaker 2: nor could she be comforted by Mama or Daddy. The

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Speaker 2: other dolls in the nursery lay forgotten and were not

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Speaker 2: put to bed that night. For Marcella lay and sobbed

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Speaker 2: and tossed about her bed. Finally, she said a little

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Speaker 2: prayer for Raggedy Ann and went to sleep. And as

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Speaker 2: she slept, Marcella dreamed that the fairies came and took

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Speaker 2: Raggedy Ann with them to Fairyland. For a visit, and

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Speaker 2: then sent raggedy Ann home to her She awakened with

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Speaker 2: a cry. Of course, Mamma came to her bed right

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Speaker 2: away and said that Daddy would offer a reward in

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Speaker 2: the morning for the return of raggedy It was all

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Speaker 2: my fault, Mamma. Marcella said, I should not have offered

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Speaker 2: the boys dear old raggedy Ann to tie on the

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Speaker 2: tail of the kite. But I just know the fairies

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Speaker 2: will send her back. Mamma took her in her arms

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Speaker 2: and soothed her with cheering words, although she felt indeed

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Speaker 2: that Raggedy Ann was truly lost and would never be

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Speaker 2: found again. Now where do you suppose raggedy Ann was

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Speaker 2: all this time? When raggedy Ann dropped from the kite,

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Speaker 2: the wind caught in her skirts and carried her along

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Speaker 2: until she fell into the fork of a large elm

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Speaker 2: tree directly over Marcella's house. When Raggedy Ann fell with

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Speaker 2: a thud, face up in the fork of the tree,

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Speaker 2: two robins who had a nest near by, flew chattering away. Presently,

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Speaker 2: the robins returned and quarreled with Raggedy Ann for laying

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Speaker 2: so close to their nest. But raggedy Ann only smiled

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Speaker 2: at them and did not move. When the robins quieted

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Speaker 2: down and quit their quarrel rolling, one of them hopped

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Speaker 2: up closer to raggedy Ann in order to investigate. It

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Speaker 2: was Mama Robin. She called to Daddy Robin and told

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Speaker 2: him to come see the nice yarn. We could use

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Speaker 2: it to line the nest with, she said, so the

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Speaker 2: robins hopped closer to raggedy Ann and asked if they

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Speaker 2: might have some of her yarn hair to line their nest.

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Speaker 2: Raggedy Ann smiled at them, so the two robins pulled

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Speaker 2: and tugged at raggedy Ann's yarn hair until they had

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Speaker 2: enough to line their nice nest. Evening came and the

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Speaker 2: robins sang their good night songs, and raggedy Ann watched

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Speaker 2: the stars come out, twinkle all night and disappear in

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Speaker 2: the morning light. In the morning, the robins again pulled

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Speaker 2: the yarn from raggedy Ann's head and loosened her so

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Speaker 2: she could peep over the side of the limb, and

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Speaker 2: when the sun came up, raggedy Ann saw she was

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Speaker 2: in the trees in her own yard. Now before she

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Speaker 2: could eat any breakfast, Marcella started out to find Raggedy Ann,

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Speaker 2: and it was Marcella herself who found her. And this

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Speaker 2: is how she did it. Mama Robin had seen Marcella

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Speaker 2: with Raggedy Ann out in the yard many times, so

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Speaker 2: she began calling Cheery Cheeri, and Daddy Robin started calling cheery, cheery, cheerup, cheerup, Cheerie, Cheerie, Cheerie, cheerie,

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Speaker 2: and Marcella, looking up into the tree above the house

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Speaker 2: to see the robins, discovered Raggedy Ann peeping over the

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Speaker 2: limb at her. Oh, how her heart beat with happiness.

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Speaker 1: Here is Raggedy Ann.

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Speaker 2: She shouted, and Mamma and Daddy came out and saw

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Speaker 2: Raggedy smiling at them. And Daddy got the clothes prop

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Speaker 2: and climbed out of the attic window and poked Raggedy

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Speaker 2: Ann out of the tree, and she fell right into

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Speaker 2: Marcella's arms, where she was hugged in a tight embrace.

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Speaker 2: You'll never go up on a kite again, Raggedy Ann,

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Speaker 2: said Marcella, for I felt so lost without you. I

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Speaker 2: will never let you leave me again. So Raggedy Ann

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Speaker 2: went into the house and had breakfast with her little

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Speaker 2: girl and Mama and Daddy smiled at each other when

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Speaker 2: they peeped through the door into the breakfast room. For

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Speaker 2: raggedy Ann's smile was wide and very yellow. Marcella, her

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Speaker 2: heart full of happiness, was feeding raggedy Ann part of

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Speaker 2: her egg