"Yes," said Raggedy Ann, "I have been thinking; our mistress gave us the
nice dinner out under the trees to teach us a lesson. She wished us to
know that we could have had all the goodies we wished, whenever we
wished, if we had behaved ourselves. And our lesson was that we must
never take without asking what we could always have for the asking! So
let us all remember and try never again to do anything which might cause
those who love us any unhappiness!"

"Let us all remember," chimed all the other dollies.

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And Raggedy Ann, with a merry twinkle in her shoe-button eyes, lay back
in her little bed, her cotton head filled with thoughts of love and
happiness.

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RAGGEDY ANN AND THE WASHING


"Why, Dinah! How could you!"

Mamma looked out of the window and saw Marcella run up to Dinah and take
something out of her hand and then put her head in her arm and commence