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 did; he said, 'Dolls are out and bears are in.' Mr. Penniman at last had to send them all to some place where Teddy Bears were unheard of."

A long-drawn sigh was now heard from the midgets, and Rosabell continued:

"Since then everything has been for them. We are in rags, and nothing is nice any more. Sometimes I wish we could go back and be dead. We could be as well as not!"

"How?" asked Patty, and the Doll Lady listened breathlessly for the reply.

Rosabell tiptoed up close, and whispered: "I have the wand that could make us all dead!"

"How did you get it?" asked Patty in surprise.

"When the Queen went abroad she gave it to Janie. I found it in the yard where Janie left it,