Show I I I I I I I I RAGGEDY ANN ANNand I and and andS S RAGGEDY ANDY ANDY I IBy By Johnny Gruelle Did it hurt you Mr Gingerbread Man lan when Hookie the Goblin was waR wasS S eating your cookie coolie arm Raggedy Ragged Andy asked Not even a the gingerbread gingerbread gingerbread ginger ginger- bread man replied It Is Just like you Raggedy Andy the gingerbread man went on It doesn't hurt you ou when some one bites you jou OU does It Oh no Raggedy Andy replied Both Raggedy Ann and I are made out of ot cloth and stuffed with nice clean cleal white cotton so It does not at all In fact nothing hurts us Does it Raggedy An Ann n Not a little teeny bit Raggedy Ragged Ann replied I am glad that the nice and Raggedy edy Andy rescued you before belore hungry Hookie the Goblin had eaten you ou completely kind Mrs Cookie said And the gingerbread man was even more glad In fact he lie was vcr very happy to be with his nice kind friends again I wouldn't go out and visit the I cookie cows and pIgs and chickens ItI if It I were you jou ou Mr Gingerbread man Raggedy Ann said Not unless Sunless the kind Is alon along to give the Goblin a hard thump it if he comes about I 1 I shall shaH not go out to see the cookie S cow uless the goes with me the Gingerbread man replied Just then Raggedy Ann looked out of ot the window Oh look she cried the Goblin Is taking all the cookie chickens chickens' He has filled a large sack with them I just saw him put I the l last st one In I r shall catch him and give Iv him a abard ahard hard bard thump the cried I as al he ho ran out of 01 the door Jt Is wrong for tor the Goblin to take tako Mrs Cookies Cookie's nice cookie chickens the tho Goblin saw the noodle run out of ot the door for he ho had been watching to see i It if the squawks of ot the cookie chickens would be heard b by the folks folls In the Cookie house So when he lie saw the kind rave ra coming out Hookie threw the sack over his shoulder and ran as fast ah ali ho could and the I noodle ran after him him Over logs and through h bushes they ran lan but although the tho could very run fast last the Goblin easily kept ahead of ot him until he lie came to a 1 queer house then Into the house he lie heran heran ran banging the tho door behind him It was the strangest cst house ono one could coul imagine There was one onG room worn down down- 1 J I stairs and three rooms one one above the theother theother theother other on top of ot the first room The had no hO Idea who owned the house so he thumped upon the door as hard as he lie could Who Vho Is it the Goblin asked Its me the and I want you ou to open the door I knew it was you ou all the time the Goblin replied but t I wanted to see If It you would pretend it was someone someone someone some some- one else If It you do not open the door I shall thump It so hard I will break breal it open the cried Ha ha You cant can't thump It open because It Is iron the Goblin lau laughed hed Then I shall watt wait for you ou at It t thedoor thedoor the thedoor door the said as he I sat down on the step For you vou will have to come ome out some time and when you ou do my but Ill I'll give you jou ou a ahard ahard hard N Then I shall shaH not come out the Goblin replied and the could coull hear him going upstairs I |