RAGGEDY ANN'S NEW SISTERS


Marcella was having a tea party up in the nursery when Daddy called to
her, so she left the dollies sitting around the tiny table and ran down
stairs carrying Raggedy Ann with her.

Mama, Daddy and a strange man were talking in the living room and Daddy
introduced Marcella to the stranger.

The stranger was a large man with kindly eyes and a cheery smile, as
pleasant as Raggedy Ann's.

He took Marcella upon his knee and ran his fingers through her curls as
he talked to Daddy and Mamma, so, of course, Raggedy Ann liked him from
the beginning. "I have two little girls," he told Marcella. "Their names
are Virginia and Doris, and one time when we were at the sea-shore they
were playing in the sand and they covered up Freddy, Doris' boy-doll in
the sand. They were playing that Freddy was in bathing and that he
wanted to be covered with the clean white sand, just as the other
bathers did. And when they had covered Freddy they took their little
pails and shovels and went farther down the beach to play and forgot all
about Freddy.

"Now when it came time for us to go home, Virginia and Doris remembered
Freddy and ran down to get him, but the tide had come in and Freddy was
'way out under the water and they could not find him. Virginia and