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Raggedy Andy Stories by John B. (John Barton) Gruelle
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Raggedy Andy kept wiggling and twisting until he came to a bend in the
pipe and could go no farther.

"I can't find them!" he cried. "They have gone farther down the pipe!
Now you can pull me up!"

"We can't reach you, Raggedy Andy!" Uncle Clem called down the pipe.
"Try to wiggle back up a piece and we will catch your feet and pull you
up!"

Raggedy Andy tried to wiggle backward up the pipe, but his clothes
caught upon a little piece of tin which stuck out from the inside of the
pipe and there he stayed. He could neither go down nor come back up.

"What shall we do?" Uncle Clem cried, "The folks will never find him
down there, for we can not tell them where he is, and they will never
guess it!"

The dolls were all very sad. They stayed out upon the shiny new tin
gutter until it began raining and hoped and hoped that Raggedy Andy
could get back up to them.

Then they went inside the nursery and sat looking out the window until
it was time for the folks to get up and the house to be astir. Then they
went back to the position each had been in, when Marcella had left them.

And although they were very quiet, each one was so sorry to lose Raggedy
Andy, and each felt that he would never be found again.

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