"Freddy must have enjoyed it and your little girls must have been very
glad to get Freddy back again!" said Marcella. "Raggedy Ann went up in
the air on the tail of a kite one day and fell and was lost, so now I am
very careful with her!"

"Would you let me take Raggedy Ann for a few days?" asked the new
friend.

Marcella was silent. She liked the stranger friend, but she did not wish
to lose Raggedy Ann.

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"I will promise to take very good care of her and return her to you in a
week. Will you let her go with me, Marcella?"

Marcella finally agreed and when the stranger friend left, he placed
Raggedy Ann in his grip.

"It is lonely without Raggedy Ann!" said the dollies each night.

"We miss her happy painted smile and her cheery ways!" they said.

And so the week dragged by....

But, my! What a chatter there was in the nursery the first night after
Raggedy Ann returned. All the dolls were so anxious to hug Raggedy Ann
they could scarcely wait until Marcella had left them alone.

When they had squeezed Raggedy Ann almost out of shape and she had