jumping down stairs.

But just as they got almost to the door, they dropped to the floor in a
heap, for there, standing watching the whole performance, was a man.

All the dolls fell in different attitudes, for it would never do for
them to let a real person see that they could act and talk just like
real people.

Raggedy Andy, Uncle Clem and Henny stopped so suddenly they fell over
each other and Raggedy Andy, being in the lead and pulling the other
two, slid right through the door and stopped at the feet of the man.

A cheery laugh greeted this and a chubby hand reached down and picked up
Raggedy Andy and turned him over.

Raggedy Andy looked up into a cheery little round face, with a little
red nose and red cheeks, and all framed in white whiskers which looked
just like snow.

Then the little round man walked into the nursery and picked up all the
dolls and looked at them. He made no noise when he walked, and this was
why he had taken the dolls by surprise at the head of the stairs.

The little man with the snow-white whiskers placed all the dolls in a
row and from a little case in his pocket he took a tiny bottle and a
little brush. He dipped the little brush in the tiny bottle and touched
all the dolls' faces with it.

He had purposely saved Raggedy Andy's face until the last. Then, as all