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and one of Raggedy Ann’s shoe-button eyes was loosened as Dinah gave her face a final scrub

Then Dinah put Raggedy Ann’s feet in the wringer and turned the crank. It was hard work getting Raggedy through

the wringer, but Dinah was very strong. And of course it happened! Raggedy Ann came through as flat as a pancake.

It was just then, that Marcella returned and saw Raggedy.

“Why, Dinah! How could you!” Marcella had sobbed as she snatched the flattened Raggedy Ann from the bewildered Dinah’s hand.

Mamma patted Marcella’s hand and soon coaxed her to quit sobbing.

When Dinah explained that the first she knew of Raggedy being in the wash was when she took her from the boiler, Marcella began crying again.

“It was all my fault, Mamma!” she cried. “I remember now that I threw dear old Raggedy Ann from me as I ran out the door and she must have fallen in the clothes hamper! Oh dear! Oh dear!” and she hugged Raggedy Ann tight.