fallen in the clothes hamper! Oh dear! Oh dear!" and she hugged Raggedy
Ann tight.

Mamma did not tell Marcella that she had been cross and naughty for she
knew Marcella felt very sorry. Instead Mamma put her arms around her and
said,

"Just see how Raggedy Ann takes it! She doesn't seem to be unhappy!"

And when Marcella brushed her tears away and looked at Raggedy Ann, flat
as a pancake and with a cheery smile upon her painted face, she had to
laugh. And Mamma and Dinah had to laugh, too, for Raggedy Ann's smile
was almost twice as broad as it had been before.

"Just let me hang Miss Raggedy on the line in the bright sunshine for
half an hour," said Dinah, "and you won't know her when she comes off!"

So Raggedy Ann was pinned to the clothes-line, out in the bright
sunshine, where she swayed and twisted in the breeze and listened to the
chatter of the robins in a nearby tree.

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Every once in a while Dinah went out and rolled and patted Raggedy until
her cotton stuffing was soft and dry and fluffy and her head and arms
and legs were nice and round again.

Then she took Raggedy Ann into the house and showed Marcella and Mamma
how clean and sweet she was.