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RAGGEDY ANN RESCUES FIDO
It was almost midnight and the dolls were asleep in their beds; all except Raggedy Ann.
Raggedy lay there, her shoe-button eyes staring straight up at the ceiling. Every once in a while Raggedy Ann ran her rag hand up through her yarn hair. She was thinking.
When she had thought for a long, long time, Raggedy Ann raised herself on her wabbly elbows and said, “I’ve thought it all out.”
At this the other dolls shook each other and raised up saying, “Listen! Raggedy has thought it all out!”
“Tell us what you have been thinking, dear Raggedy,” said the tin soldier. “We hope they were pleasant thoughts.”
“Not very pleasant thoughts!” said Raggedy, as she brushed a tear from her shoe-button eyes. “You haven’t seen Fido all day, have you?”’
“Not since early this morning,” the French dolly said.
“It has troubled me,” said Raggedy, “and if my head was not stuffed with lovely new white cotton, I am sure it would have ached with the worry! When Mistress took me into the living-room this afternoon she was crying, and I heard her mamma say, ‘We will find him! He is sure to come home soon!’ and I knew they were talking of Fido! He must be lost!”
