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Show The Adventures of " Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy 1 "By Johnny GruelU ' ' -;! "Do ' you know what I believe, Racgedy Ann?" Racaedy Andy asksd as he and-Raggedy Ann and little Ned Onome sat in the Witches' front room. "What do you believe. Raggedy Andyf" Raagedy Ana aeked In reply. re-ply. "Well sir." Ksggrdy Andy aald, hn little Nad Gnome waa trying try-ing to ahow ua the way to the place when the little Dwarfles make the peanut brittle candy, I believe the two little old Wltehee rot out their! magic charma and made the place invlalble to ue!" "I believe that you are right. Raggedy Andy!" Raggedy Ann aald. "And they muat have charmed ua with their made charma eo that we walked Hunt Into their front door without knowing It. until we were Inside!" little Ned Gnome added. "I am sure of It now!" Rax-gady Ann aald. "What .ahali we do? The wa llllle liae -ana la the' atore to get nlckela In change ao that they ca'n pay Raggedy Andy a nickel apiece becauae ha aald. Tl bet a nickel we are In the Wltchea' houae. So row. our only hone of eacaplng la thie: The two Wltchea have a lead quarter which they are going to try to get the atorekeeper to change, and maybe he will dlacover the quarter la no "But even If they cannot Set the nlckela In change, won't the two Wltchea come back and take the Wlahlng Pebble and the Wishing Bllck away from you and Baggeay Andyr little tied Gnome aeked. -Of couree!" Kaed,y A"n. "but then If they did that, .It wouldn't be fair." -oh! Ther would not care wnetn- er It waa fair or not!" Raggedy Andr aald. "Well, hero they come!" little jied Gnome aald. "When they open the door let'a Jump out aa quickly aa we can and maybe we ahali es-capel" es-capel" So the Raggedya and little Ned Gnome waited at the door and the minute the two Wltchea opened the door, out they popped. Tha three frlenda would have aa-caped. aa-caped. if Raggedy -Andy had. not ' tripped and fallen. Thle made Raggedy Ann and little Ned Gnome fall down too and the two Wltchea grabbed them. v "Aha!" Wanda and Winda Cltcn V 'aughed a they brought the Rag- V gedya ahd little Ned Gnome back Into the houae. "You thought you could fool ua and eecape! Rut thla time, we h- ve you and we ahali aoon have t ie Wlahlng Pebble and the Wiahlnc Stick;" Then Wanda Witch aald to Wlnda Witch. "Olva f Raggedy Andy the two nlckela Jn paymenrof hlaetrfor aa aoon a f we get the Wlehlng Pebble and f Wlahlng Stickle will take tha two nickela away frbm him!" That la cheating!" Raggedy Ann aald. "And anyway you got the atorekeeper to change a lead quarter, quar-ter, and that waa Juat tha aama aa ateallng!" , M . . "Ha. ha. ha!" -Wanda and W Inde laughed aa they pIcRed up a pair of aclaaora and got ready to anlp pen Raggedy Andya cotton stuffed W. do not care! We will aoon have the Wlahlng Stick!" And with that iVanda Wllch anlpped stitches out of Raggedy Andy a waiat and pu led te n.ilc.1 Wlahlng Rtick . out of tha nlca clean white cotton .luffing. |