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 Mamma did not tell Marcella that she had been cross and naughty for she knew Marcella felt very sorry. Instead Mamma put her arms around her and said,

“Just see how Raggedy Ann takes it! She doesn’t seem to be unhappy!”

And when Marcella brushed her tears away and looked at Raggedy Ann, flat as a pancake and with a cheery smile upon her painted face, she had to laugh. And Mamma and Dinah had to laugh, too, for Raggedy Ann’s smile was almost twice as broad as it had been before.

“Jess lemme hang Miss Raggedy on de line in de bright sunshine foh haff an hour,” said Dinah, “‘an’ you won’t know her when she comes off!”

So Raggedy Ann was pinned to the clothes-line, out in the bright sunshine, where she swayed and twisted in the breeze and listened to the chatter of the robins in a nearby tree.