happiness.

"Oh you dear old Hennypennies!" she cried, lifting both old hens from
their nests. "You have hidden your nests away back here and now you have
one, two, three, four--twenty chickies!" and as she counted them,
Marcella placed them in her apron; then catching up Raggedy Ann, she
placed her over the new little chickies.

"Come on, old Hennypennies!" she said, and went out of the coop with the
two old hens clucking at her heels.

Marcella called Daddy and Daddy rolled two barrels out under one of the
trees and made a nice bed in each. Then he nailed slats across the
front, leaving a place for a door. Each Hennypennie was then given ten
little chickies and shut up in the barrel. And all the dolls were happy
when they heard of Raggedy's adventure and they did not have to wait
long before they were all taken out to see the new chickies.

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RAGGEDY ANN AND THE MOUSE


Jeanette was a new wax doll, and like Henny, the Dutch doll, she could
say "Mamma" when anyone tipped her backward or forward. She had lovely
golden brown curls of real hair. It could be combed and braided, or
curled or fluffed without tangling, and Raggedy Ann was very proud when