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Raggedy Ann Stories by John B. (John Barton) Gruelle
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aunt and uncle.

Annabel-Lee and Thomas were beautiful dolls and must have cost heaps and
heaps of shiny pennies, for both were handsomely dressed and had _real_
hair!

Annabel's hair was of a lovely shade of auburn and Thomas' was golden
yellow.

Annabel was dressed in soft, lace-covered silk and upon her head she
wore a beautiful hat with long silk ribbons tied in a neat bow-knot
beneath her dimpled chin.

Thomas was dressed in an Oliver Twist suit of dark velvet with a lace
collar. Both he and Annabel wore lovely black slippers and short
stockings.

They were sitting upon two of the little red doll chairs where Marcella
had placed them and where they could see the other dolls.

When Uncle Clem walked in front of them and pulled his mustache they
laughed outright. "Tee-Hee-Hee!" they snickered, "He has holes in his
knees!"

Quite true. Uncle Clem was made of worsted and the moths had eaten his
knees and part of his kiltie. He had a kiltie, you see, for Uncle Clem
was a Scotch doll.

Uncle Clem shook, but he felt so hurt he could think of nothing to say.

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