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Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble - Johnny Gruelle · Robin Hood

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  Speaker 1: Introduction to Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: by T. R. Love of Pleasant Hell, California. Raggedy Ann's
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  Speaker 1: Wishing Pebble by Johnny Grewell. Introduction to Wishing Pebble. Raggedy
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  Speaker 1: Ann and Raggedy Andy were two little rag dolls, very
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  Speaker 1: quiet little creatures stuffed with nice white cotton. They had
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  Speaker 1: bright shoe button eyes and cheery, happy smiles painted upon
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  Speaker 1: their ragged faces. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy were very
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  Speaker 1: happy little creatures too, for they were over fifty years
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  Speaker 1: old and had always had so much in their raggedy lives.
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  Speaker 1: They just couldn't help being joyous and kindly. Raggedy Andy
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  Speaker 1: always said, the reason Raggedy Ann is so lovable and
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  Speaker 1: kindly and generous and able to think so nicely is
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  Speaker 1: because she has a candy heart with the words I
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  Speaker 1: Love you printed on it. But Raggedy Andy was just
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  Speaker 1: as kindly and cheery and generous as dear Raggedy Ann,
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  Speaker 1: and he has no candy heart. And maybe it is
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  Speaker 1: just as Raggedy Ann has often said to the other
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  Speaker 1: dolls in the nursery, if one just thinks nice, kindly things,
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  Speaker 1: if one just does generous, helpful deeds, then that person
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  Speaker 1: is filled with a thrill of happiness which shines right
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  Speaker 1: through even the shabbiest clothes and brings loving friends close by.
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  Speaker 1: One evening, all the dolls in the nursery, Raggedy Ann,
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  Speaker 1: Raggedy Andy, Henny, the Dutch doll, Frederica, Uncle Clem, a
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  Speaker 1: very nice man doll with yarn mustache and a policeman's uniform,
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  Speaker 1: and the French doll, and all the others sat around
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  Speaker 1: telling stories. When it came to raggedy Ann's turn, she
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  Speaker 1: told of the adventures she and Raggedy Andy had with
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  Speaker 1: the camel with the wrinkled knees. It was very exciting
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  Speaker 1: and so interesting. None of the dolls closed their eyes
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  Speaker 1: even a smidgeon while Raggedy Ann spoke in her soft,
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  Speaker 1: cottony raged voice. Then, when Raggedy Ann had finished, she
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  Speaker 1: told all the dolls it was time they were in bed,
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  Speaker 1: and indeed it was, for it was almost time for
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  Speaker 1: the smile mister Sun to come peeping into the windows.
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  Speaker 1: So all the dolls hurried and jumped into bed in
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  Speaker 1: just the same positions their little mistress Marcella had placed
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  Speaker 1: them early in the evening. In a few minutes, everything
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  Speaker 1: was so still you could have heard the patter of
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  Speaker 1: a teeny weeny mouse if he had trip tripped across
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  Speaker 1: the floor. Then Raggedy Andy raised up on his cotton
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  Speaker 1: stuffed elbow and whispered to Raggedy Ann, Let's have another adventure,
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  Speaker 1: shall we. And Raggedy Ann's shoe boton eyes wiggled with pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: and she whispered in reply, Yes, Raggedy Andy, let's do.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: They tiptoed quietly to the window, climbed to the sill,
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  Speaker 1: and catching hands jumped to the ground below. Blump, blump,
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  Speaker 1: And so this had venture began. Let us start a garden.
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  Speaker 2: You and I.
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  Speaker 1: Let us turn the soil of acquaintance, ship and in
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  Speaker 1: this fertile ground plant kindly thoughts. Let us pull all
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  Speaker 1: the weeds of envy and selfishness and destroy them. Let
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  Speaker 1: us water our garden with the dew of sympathy. Let
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  Speaker 1: us keep our growing plants in the sunshine of love
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  Speaker 1: and happiness is ours our garden is filled with the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful flowers of friendship. The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and
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  Speaker 1: Raggedy Andy. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy went skipping over
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  Speaker 1: the yellow meadow, each with a rag arm around the
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  Speaker 1: other's neck. When the two raggedys reached a clump of
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  Speaker 1: golden rod, they heard tiny voices, laughing and singing. Sh
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  Speaker 1: Both Raggedys whispered to each other as they crept up closer.
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  Speaker 1: You need not be so quiet, A teeny weeny, silvery
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  Speaker 1: voice called to them from the golden rod. We can
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  Speaker 1: see you easily and knew you were coming. Raggedy Ann
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  Speaker 1: and Raggedy Andy laughed happily as they pushed aside the
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  Speaker 1: golden rod and saw hundreds of cunning little brownies. We
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  Speaker 1: did not know who it might be, said Raggedy Ann,
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  Speaker 1: And we did not wish to frighten you away until
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  Speaker 1: we saw who you were. And then did you wish
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  Speaker 1: to frighten us away? One of the tiny brownies asked
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  Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann, and Raggedy Andy laughed as cheerily as all
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  Speaker 1: the brownies at this No, indeed, Raggedy Ann said, when
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  Speaker 1: they had stopped laughing, we did not wish to have
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  Speaker 1: you quit your happy games, That's what I meant to say.
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  Speaker 1: So we were just tiptoeing up easily, and then we
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  Speaker 1: would have gone away. Well, we are glad you came.
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  Speaker 1: One of the little brownie men said, for you can
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  Speaker 1: join in our fun. Thank you. The two raggedys cry,
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  Speaker 1: we like fun. What are you playing? We were just
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  Speaker 1: planning to fly down to the looking Glass Brook and
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  Speaker 1: slide on the water, so you may go with us.
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  Speaker 1: We would like to go, Raggedy Andy answered, But if
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  Speaker 1: we cannot fly, nor can we slide upon the surface
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  Speaker 1: of the water without getting wet. But then that's fun too,
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  Speaker 1: because our rag bodies are stuffed with nice white cotton,
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  Speaker 1: and we soon dry out in the lovely warm sunshine.
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  Speaker 1: The little brownies laughed, and one said, when you slide
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  Speaker 1: with us, you won't get even a little teeny weeny
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  Speaker 1: speck wet, and waving his hands to the other brownies,
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  Speaker 1: he caught Raggedy Andy's hand. Other little brownies caught Raggedy
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  Speaker 1: Andy's feet and Raggedy Ann's hands and feet and whisked
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  Speaker 1: them up over the Golden Rod and out across the
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  Speaker 1: yellow meadow to the looking Glass Brook. When the little
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  Speaker 1: Brownies and the two Raggedyes reached the looking Glass Brook,
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  Speaker 1: they all ran as hard as they could and went
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  Speaker 1: sliding across the smooth surface of the water. It was
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  Speaker 1: just like sliding upon ice, except when one of the
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  Speaker 1: Brownies or one of the Raggedys fell down, they bounced
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  Speaker 1: up again, for the surface of the looking Glass Brook
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  Speaker 1: gave beneath them like rubber ice, and they did not
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  Speaker 1: get their heads bumped. As they slid along upon the
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  Speaker 1: top of the water. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy could
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  Speaker 1: see the pretty little fish swimming about and chasing each
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  Speaker 1: other back and forth, just as if they were having
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  Speaker 1: games too. The Raggedys and the little Brownies were not
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  Speaker 1: the only ones who were sliding upon the surface of
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  Speaker 1: the water. For while they were resting, they saw queer, little, tiny,
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  Speaker 1: long legged creatures come sliding along. And one came right
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  Speaker 1: up to the Brownies and Raggedy Ann and Andy. Why
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  Speaker 1: he has a tiny boat on each of his feet,
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  Speaker 1: Andy cried in surprise. Oh, yes, a little brownie, said,
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the little faery men. Do you mean
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  Speaker 1: that he carries tiny passengers across the looking Glass Brook?
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  Speaker 1: Asked Raggedy ann that is just what they do, laughed
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  Speaker 1: the little brownies. You see, many little creatures cannot walk
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  Speaker 1: upon the water, and if they happened to fall into
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  Speaker 1: the water and try to swim across, the little fish
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  Speaker 1: sometimes most always eat them up. So the little fairymen,
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  Speaker 1: or water boatmen as they are sometimes called, run from
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  Speaker 1: one point upon the looking Glass Brook to the other point,
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  Speaker 1: and they carry passengers for the fish. Never disturbed the faerymen.
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  Speaker 1: And I suppose the tiny creatures pay the little ferrymen
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  Speaker 1: with seeds or something like that, said Raggedy Andy. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: laughed the little brownies. The little ferrymen never ask pay
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  Speaker 1: for carrying the tiny creatures across, because you see, they
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  Speaker 1: get so much fun out of sliding across the looking
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  Speaker 1: Glass Brook themselves, so that it is all the pay
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  Speaker 1: they wish. When the little brownies told the raggedies that
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  Speaker 1: it was time they went to work, each little brownie
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  Speaker 1: gave the rag dolls a kiss. Each kiss left the
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  Speaker 1: tiny brown freckle on each of the raggedy's faces, just
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  Speaker 1: like the little faces of boys and girls who have
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  Speaker 1: been kissed by the brownies. Then, with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: tiny brownie hoops. The cunning creatures flew high in the
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  Speaker 1: air and across the meadow, leaving the two Raggedyes watching
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  Speaker 1: the little kindly water boatmen carrying the tiny bug passengers
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  Speaker 1: across the looking Glass Brook, and the Raggedies, with an
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  Speaker 1: arm about each other's neck, felt that their little cotton
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  Speaker 1: stuffed heads were filled with happiness. For you know how
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  Speaker 1: much pleasure it gives you when you see someone doing
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  Speaker 1: unselfish deeds and kindly acts for those in need. And
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  Speaker 1: even if it is only a very, very tiny, little
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  Speaker 1: deed of kindness, the Raggedies knew that, however small they
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  Speaker 1: may be, the kindly deeds grow and grow until they
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  Speaker 1: blossom and fill our hearts with the sunshine of happiness.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter one, Chapter two of raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. For information or to volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Read by T. R. Love of Pleasant Hill, California.
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  Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruel. Chapter two. As
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  Speaker 1: the Raggedys sat upon the bank of the looking Glass
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  Speaker 1: Brook and watched the little water boatmen carry the tiny
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  Speaker 1: creatures across. A ripple came circling by them, then another
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  Speaker 1: and another, until the little water boatmen rocked as they
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  Speaker 1: slid over the tops of the ripples. It looks just
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  Speaker 1: as if the looking glass Brook was smiling, laughed Raggedy Ann. Then,
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  Speaker 1: as the ripples came faster and faster and closer together,
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  Speaker 1: the two raggedys peeked over the edge of the bending
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  Speaker 1: grasses and saw a queer, little dumpy creature standing in
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  Speaker 1: the water and digging a hole in the bank. He
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  Speaker 1: wore a little round felt hat and worked in his
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  Speaker 1: shirt sleeves. The Raggedys could not see the little dumpy
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  Speaker 1: creature's face until they spoke to him, and he looked
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  Speaker 1: up at them. Then they saw it was mister Muskrat,
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  Speaker 1: and his bright little eyes danced laughingly behind round spectacles.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever are you doing, mister muskrat, Raggedy Ann asked, you
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  Speaker 1: were making the looking glass Brook dance and ripple just
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  Speaker 1: as if it was giggling. Mister Muskrat pulled his suspenders
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  Speaker 1: over his shoes and winked slowly at both rag dolls.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows he smiled? Perhaps it is giggling at me,
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  Speaker 1: for you know, someone just played a prank on me,
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  Speaker 1: But I believe I know who it was. Mister muskrat
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  Speaker 1: went on as he pushed his little round hat back
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  Speaker 1: and wiped his forehead with his red pocket hanky. Who
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  Speaker 1: do you spect, asked Raggedy Andy. Well, laughed mister muskrat.
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  Speaker 1: When I came here to my kitchen door a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago, I found that someone had filled my doorway
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  Speaker 1: with pieces of mud and grass and completely closed it
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  Speaker 1: as tight as tight could be. And in the soft
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  Speaker 1: dirt all around the doorway, I saw the tracks where
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  Speaker 1: whoever did it had walked, and I said, ha, ha,
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  Speaker 1: I know who made those footprints. It was Timothy Turtle.
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  Speaker 1: How did you know that it was Timothy? Raggedy Ann
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  Speaker 1: wished to know, cause you see, said mister Muskrat. Timothy
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  Speaker 1: Turtle wears four shoes, two on his front feet and
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  Speaker 1: two on his back feet, and he turns them in
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  Speaker 1: pigeon toad when he walks, So you see he left
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  Speaker 1: four pigeon toad tracks. And now I'm digging my kitchen
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  Speaker 1: norway open again, for it is time I had my dinner.
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  Speaker 1: What will you do with Timothy turtle when you catch him,
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  Speaker 1: mister muskrat, Raggedy Andy asked, mister Muskrat, stuck his spade
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  Speaker 1: in the bank and sat down beside the two raggedys.
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  Speaker 1: Timothy Turtle is a funny fellow, mister Muskrat chuckled. He
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  Speaker 1: plays a prank on someone and then he walks away
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  Speaker 1: a few feet and pulls his head into his collar
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  Speaker 1: so that just his nose peeks out. And because he
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  Speaker 1: keeps his eyes closed Timo, he believes that no one
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  Speaker 1: can see him. Then he usually goes to sleep and
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  Speaker 1: forgets all about what.
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  Speaker 3: He has done.
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  Speaker 1: If you will peep just around the bend in the bank,
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  Speaker 1: you will see Timothy Turtles sound asleep, and right where
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  Speaker 1: I had to pass him when I came to my
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  Speaker 1: kitchen doorway. And didn't you even awaken him? And he asked,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, laughed mister muskrat. You know that Timothy Turtle
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  Speaker 1: carries his house right upon his back all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and he gets very tired, so he needs all the
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  Speaker 1: sleep he can get. Just then, Timothy Turtle came walking
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  Speaker 1: pigeon toad around the bank and tipped his hat to
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  Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann. Although to do this he had to take
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  Speaker 1: off one of his shoes. Timothy Turtle sounded like a
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  Speaker 1: poly parrot when he talked, and although the Raggedy's to
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  Speaker 1: smile for their smiles were painted on, they were careful
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  Speaker 1: not to laugh at Timothy's funny voice. Well, here you
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  Speaker 1: are hard at work, mister Muskrat, building a new house,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose. Mister Muskrat winked at the raggedys and said,
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  Speaker 1: sit down here beside our two friends, Timothy Turtle, and
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  Speaker 1: I will be soon through. And with this mister Muskrat
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  Speaker 1: made the dirt fly until he had opened his kitchen doorway.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went inside and came out with two large
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  Speaker 1: slices of muskrat bread and butter and jam, and gave
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  Speaker 1: one to Timothy Turtle. I know that you two raggedys
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  Speaker 1: do not eat, he laughed, and if I give you
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  Speaker 1: a bite, it will get jam all over your painted faces.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, just the same. Raggedy Ann and Andy both replied.
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  Speaker 1: When Timothy Turtle had eaten his slice of bread, he said, guess,
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  Speaker 1: swam out to the log and take a nap in
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  Speaker 1: the nice, warm sunshine, and nodding his head gravely to
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  Speaker 1: the two rag dolls and mister Muskrat, Timothy Turtle walked
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  Speaker 1: pigeon toed down the bank into the water and swam
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  Speaker 1: lazily out to the log. You see, laughed mister Muskrat.
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  Speaker 1: Timothy Turtle had forgotten all about playing his prank on me.
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  Speaker 1: I think the nicest part is that you forgive him
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  Speaker 1: for making you so much unnecessary work. Raggedy Ann laughed. Oh, really,
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing for me to forgive, mister Muskrat replied,
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  Speaker 1: for I have all the time I wish, and I
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  Speaker 1: love to work. So if Timothy Turtle got some fun
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  Speaker 1: out of it, then I don't mind in the least,
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  Speaker 1: for I have the fun of undoing what he did.
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  Speaker 1: And don't you see if I should get angry at
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  Speaker 1: Timothy and that would have taken all the pleasure out
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  Speaker 1: of my work, For then I might not have wanted
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  Speaker 1: to work. And when anyone tries to get out of
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of work which he has to do,
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  Speaker 1: or when he puts it off until some other time,
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  Speaker 1: then it seems as though the work which is put
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  Speaker 1: off grows and grows until it takes ever so much
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  Speaker 1: longer to do. End off Chapter two, Chapter three of
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  Speaker 1: raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Read by T. R.
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  Speaker 1: Love of Pleasant Hill, California. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Gruel, Chapter three. May come into your house and
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  Speaker 1: see how you live, Raggedy Andy asked of mister Muskrat.
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  Speaker 1: Why Andy, Raggedy Ann laughed, don't you know that is
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  Speaker 1: very impolite. Raggedy Andy fidgeted his foot about in the
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  Speaker 1: sand and did not know just what to say. But
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  Speaker 1: mister Muskrat patted him upon the back and laughed, that's
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  Speaker 1: all right, Raggedy Andy. I was just about to ask
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  Speaker 1: both of you inside, for it looks to me as
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  Speaker 1: if we were about to have a heavy rain, and
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  Speaker 1: if you stay out in the rain, I'm sure your
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  Speaker 1: ragbodies will get very soggy. And with this, mister Muskrat
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  Speaker 1: led the way into his kitchen. Isn't it nice and
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  Speaker 1: cozy in here, Raggedy Ann exclaimed, It is so quiet
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  Speaker 1: you can hardly hear any of the sounds from the
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  Speaker 1: creatures along the looking Glass Brook that's one reason I
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  Speaker 1: like it, mister muskrat answered, leading the way up a
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  Speaker 1: long haul into a larger room. This is my living room,
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  Speaker 1: and he pulled out two little chairs for the raggedies
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  Speaker 1: and took an easy chair for himself. After lighting his
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  Speaker 1: muskrat pipe, the funny dumpy creature crossed his feet and
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  Speaker 1: leaned back comfortably. Yes, indeedy Timothy Turtle is a queer
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  Speaker 1: little fellow, and all his turtle relatives are queer little
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  Speaker 1: creatures too. But then continued mister muskrat, probably Timothy Turtle
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  Speaker 1: and his relatives think everyone else is queer too, And
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  Speaker 1: I guess it is just as well that we do
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  Speaker 1: think that way, for if we didn't, we'd probably be
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  Speaker 1: discontented and want to be changed into something else. And
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  Speaker 1: that is just how the turtle family happened to be
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  Speaker 1: as queer as they are. For once upon a time,
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  Speaker 1: the turtles were almost like the hoppy toads and the
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  Speaker 1: green frogs, except that the turtles could not hop as
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  Speaker 1: far as the frogs. Then, when larger creatures came to
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  Speaker 1: the streams where the turtles and hoppy toads and frogs lived,
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  Speaker 1: the turtles could not get into the water as fast
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  Speaker 1: as the green frogs, and so old mister School again
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  Speaker 1: the magician came along one day. The turtle family all cried, oh,
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  Speaker 1: mister School again, the mosquitoes bite us upon our backs,
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  Speaker 1: and we can't hop fast enough to get away from them.
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  Speaker 1: And when old mister Heron comes along looking for dinner,
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  Speaker 1: we can't hop fast enough to get away from him.
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  Speaker 1: Can you help give us some magic medicine which will
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  Speaker 1: make our backs so hard the mosquitoes can't bite us,
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  Speaker 1: and old mister Heron won't be able to eat us
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  Speaker 1: for dinner. And the old mister School again the magician
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  Speaker 1: he winked his eyes eyes behind his glasses and chuckled
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  Speaker 1: to himself, hmm, let's see musing. And then he took
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  Speaker 1: out his magic pocket book with two magic suspender buttons
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  Speaker 1: and three glass beads in it, and touched each turtle
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  Speaker 1: upon the back. There he said, now the mosquitoes can't
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  Speaker 1: bite you, and mister Haron won't care to eat you,
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  Speaker 1: And away he walked, And so continued mister Muskrat as
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  Speaker 1: he puffed the smoke up around the ceiling. The turtle
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  Speaker 1: family got just what they asked for, but not exactly
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  Speaker 1: what they wanted, and while they have very hard backs,
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  Speaker 1: they get very tired carrying such heavy loads about with
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  Speaker 1: them all the time. They should have been satisfied, said
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  Speaker 1: Raggedy Andy. Then probably old mister school again would have
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  Speaker 1: changed them into something even better without them asking for
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  Speaker 1: a chain. And that's why all the turtle family are
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  Speaker 1: so slow and sleepy, mused Raggedy Ann. I've wondered how
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  Speaker 1: they became that way. But there's one thing about the turtles,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: said mister Muskrat. If they start out to do anything,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: they keep plodding away until it's done. Do the turtles
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: have any homes besides the ones they carry upon their backs,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: asked Raggedy Andy. No, laughed mister Muskrat. Unless the mud
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: they bury themselves in at the bottom of the streams
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: in the winter time could be called homes, then too,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: he added, a lot of turtles come into our homes
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: for the winter and pull their heads and feet into
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: their shells and sleep. It is kind of you to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: let them stay with you all winter, mister Muskrat, Raggedy
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Ann said, well, mister Muskrat replied, the turtles come in
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: very handy to us at times during the winter. Raggedy
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Ann and Raggedy Andy laughed at this and asked, how
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: lots and lots of times we muskrats have parties, and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: then we used the sleeping turtles for seats, and they
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: never know it at all. Just then, Missus Muskrat came
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: walking in with a basket upon her arm. My, it's
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: raining hard outside, she said, after shaking hands with the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: two rag dolls, You Raggedy's had better stay all night
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: with us, Thank you, Missus Muskrat. Raggedy Ann and Andy replied,
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  Speaker 1: we will if it will not put you to any
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: bother dear me, No, laughed the two muskrats. We have
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: plenty of spare rooms. And they took the two rag
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: dolls and tucked them into little beds as comfortable as
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: could be, and wishing them good night. Mister and missus
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Muskrat tiptoed out the two raggedys, their little ragheads filled
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: with kindly thoughts, and their shoe button eyes staring up
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: at the ceiling. Isn't it nice to meet people who
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: are so unselfish raggedy An, he whispered to Raggedy Ann.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Indeed it is, Raggedy Ann answered, it makes my little
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: candy heart feel like it would bump right out of
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  Speaker 1: my pretty white apron. And if we are kind and unselfish,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: then those who meet us will be filled with good
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: thoughts and love for us. I met Gerty Garter Snake yesterday,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: said Missus Muskrat at the breakfast table, as she passed
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the pancakes to Raggedy Ann. And she had a lovely
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: new dress. I didn't know Gerty Garter Snake ever had
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: new clothes, laughed Raggedy Ann as she poured maple syrup
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: upon the pancake. Oh yes, Missus Muskrat replied. Every once
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: in a while she gets new clothes, but she has
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: no hands to make them with Raggedy Ann, he said,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: does some kind creature make them for her? Mister and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Missus Muskrat chuckled at this. Yes, indeed, my DearS, said
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  Speaker 1: Missus Muskrat, the kindest person in the world makes them
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  Speaker 1: for her. Mother Nature isn't that nice, Raggedy Ann cried,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Mother Nature must be very kind. Indeed she is, agreed
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Missus Muskrat. If it wasn't for mother Nature, some of
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the poor creatures would have a very hard time. As
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: it is Gertrude Garter Snake has a hard time getting
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: off her old clothes. For you see, her new clothes
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: are always under her old clothes. How strange, said Raggedy Ann.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: You would think the new clothes would be on the outside,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: like children's dresses, and then you would take off the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: old dress and put on the new That is probably
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the way children have to get their new clothes. Missus
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Muskrat nodded her funny head. But mother Nature plans it
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: better for her tiny creatures. She makes the new clothes
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: upon Gerty Garter Snake right in under her old clothes.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So all Gerty has to do is take off her
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: old dress and she has her new one on without
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the bother of putting it on. I always thought that
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Gerty Garter Snake wore her dresses too tight, mister Muskrat said,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: with a sly wink at Raggedy Andy. Missus Muskrat knew
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: that mister Muskrat was joking, so she gave mister Muskrat
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a pancake with a hole in it and said, Gerty
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Garter Snake does not even have to button her new dress.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: It fits her without buttons. But my, how Gerty Garter
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Snake has to wiggle and twist to get out of
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: her old dress. Lots of times children find Gerty's old
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: dresses lying around, and I suppose they wonder how Gerdy
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: ever gets out of them. There's some one tapping at
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the kitchen door, said mister Muskrat, as he got up
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: from the table and went to the door. Well, if
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: it isn't Gerty Garter Snake herself with her pretty new
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: dress on, we were just speaking of you, said Raggedy
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Ann as she pulled up a chair for Gerdy Garter
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Snake to sit upon. Mister Muskrat says he thinks your
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: clothes fit you too tight, said Raggedy Andy. If mister
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Muskrat wasn't so nice, i'd think he was teasing me,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: said Gerty Garter Snake as she tasted the pancakes and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: maple syrup. But he knows very well that if I
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: did not wear real tight clothes, why I'd be catching
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: them on every twig and stick that I wiggled over. Yes, indeed,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: my clothes are very smooth and tight, but that is
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: just the way I need them, so I can wiggle
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: along and not get fastened on anything and everything. Your
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: dress is very pretty, said Raggedy Ann. I think it
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: is too, Gerty garter Snake laughed, Mother Nature, in the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: far off beginning took different flowers and made the first
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: garter snake dress. And that is why our dresses are
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: covered with such pretty red and yellow colors. We can
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: hide right in amongst the pretty flowers, and it is
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: very hard for anyone to see us. You don't bite people,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: do you, Gerty garter Snake, Raggedy Andy asked. Gerty garter
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Snake almost wiggled off the Muskrat's chair. She laughed so hard,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: dear me, No, I don't bite anything except things I
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: wish to eat, like pancakes. When everyone had eaten as
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: many pancakes and maple syrup as they wished, Missus Muskrat
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and Raggedy Anne washed and wiped the dishes, while Gerdy
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Gartersnake wrapped a rag around her tail and dusted the furniture.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Mister Muskrat and Raggedy Andy swept the floors all nice
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and clean and put the dishes in the muskrat cupboard.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Then when everything was nice and tidy, they all went
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: out upon the Muskrat's back porch and watched the pretty
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: fish jumping about in the looking Glass Brook. How nice
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: it is just to sit here and listen to all
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the music of nature, said Raggedy Andy. Yes, indeed, Raggedy
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Ann agreed. It is just like a great, great big
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: music box which old mister Sun winds up every evening
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: before he goes to bed, so that it will start
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: right and early in the morning, playing and sending out
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: happy sounds for every one's pleasure. End of chapter three.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Chapter four of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is the
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 31:11
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• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruhle. Raggedy Ann and
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Raggedy Andy thanked missus and mister Muskrat for the nice
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: time they had at the Muskrat home, and after shaking
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: hands goodbye, the two rag dolls walked along the edge
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: of the looking Glass Brook. They peeped under the overhanging
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: grasses and poked about in the sand and pebbles along
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: the shore. I wish that we could find a wishing pebble,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: said Raggedy Andy. Dear me, what would two rag dolls
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: do with a wishing pebble? Raggedy Andy wanted to know why,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: laughed Raggedy Andy. We could wish for so many nice,
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: pretty things like lollipops and ice cream cones and soda
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: water and candy and toys and everything like that. Then
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: let's hunt for a wishing pebble, said Raggedy Ann. Do
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: you know what they look like, Raggedy Andy. Of course,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I've never seen one, Raggedy Andy replied, but I have
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: heard that they are round and smooth and real white.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Is this one, do you suppose, Raggedy Andy, Raggedy Ann
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: asked as she held up a white pebble. Let's see,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Raggedy Andy said, as he held out his rag hand
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: for the pebble. Well, it's nice and white, Raggedy Ann,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: and it's quite smooth, but it's not round enough. I'm
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: afraid I'll keep it anyway, Raggedy Ann laughed as she
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: put the pretty pebble in her apron pocket. For it
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: may be a wishing pebble and we would not know it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: We can easily find out if it's a wishing pebble,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: said Raggedy Andy. How asked Raggedy Ann as she took
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: the pretty pebble from her pocket. Why, Raggedy Andy said,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: when you find a wishing, you must hold it tight
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: in your hand and close your eyes tightly and make
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: a wish. Then if it's a real, for sure, truly
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: wishing pebble, whatever you wish for comes true, then, said
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Raggedy Ann. Let's wish for something and see if it
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: comes true. All right, Raggedy Andy agreed, you wish for something,
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: but I don't know what to wish for. Raggedy Ann laughed,
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: there's nothing I need. Then wish for something for missus Muskrat.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Raggedy Andy suggested, why not wish her to have a
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: magic pancake mixer which will always be full of pancakes
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: ready to cook. All right, agreed Raggedy Ann. Ill wish
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: that missus Muskrat had a very magical pancake mixer always
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: filled with pancakes ready to be cooked. Oh wait a minute,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Raggedy Andy cried, I thought of something better. Wish that
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: the pancakes were already cooked. Then missus Muskrat wouldn't even
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: have to bother about out cooking them. But s'pose she
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: really likes to do her own pancake making, said raggedy Ann.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Then if we give her a magic pancake mixer filled
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: with pancakes already cooked, she wouldn't have any fun making
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: them anymore. I hadn't thought of that, Raggedy Ann said, Andy.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Let's see anyway, Raggedy Ann shook her head. We can't
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: make the wishing pebble work, why, asked raggedy Andy. Cauz
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: we can't close our shoe button eyes when we make
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: a wish, said raggedy Ann. Hm was all Raggedy Andy
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: could say. But he sat down in the sand and
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: ran his rag hand up through his yarn hair and
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: tried to think of a way. I can't think of
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: anyway at all, laughed raggedy Ann. Shoe button eyes can't close,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: and that's all there is to it. Raggedy Andy finally
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: hopped up in the air and turned a flip flop.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: It wasn't a very good flip flop, for Raggedy Andy
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: only turned partly over in the air and fell with
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: his raglegs twisted over his head. When Raggedy Ann had
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: straightened him out, he laughed and said, we can have
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: the fun of wishing anyway, Raggedy Ann. And if we
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: wish for things, nice things for others, we can pretend
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: the wishes come true. That is a nice thought, Raggedy
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Ann laughed. So I wish Greggy Gartersnake had a new dress.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: And I wish all the birds would sing, said Raggedy Andy.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: And I wish the muskrats had a magic soda water
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: fountain in their living room, said Raggedy Ann. And I
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: wish they had a lollypop field right out back of
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: their kitchen door, said Raggedy Andy. And now Raggedy Ann,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: let's run back to the Muskrat's house and see if
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: our wishes came true. No, let's not, Raggedy Ann said,
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: in her soft raggedy voice. It's much more fun in
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: not knowing for don't you see. If we don't know
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: for sure, we can still believe our wishes have come true,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: and we have the pleasure of having wished for good
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: things for our friends. End of chapter four, chapter five
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 36:18
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• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruel, Chapter five.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: What do you think?
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Asked freddyfield Mouse as he ran up to where the
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: two raggedy sat upon the clean sand at the edge
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: of the looking glass brook. We were thinking a lot
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: of happy thoughts, freddyfield Mouse. Raggedy Ann laughingly replied. Freddyfield
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Mouse laughed too as he said that is very very nice.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: I'm sure, Raggedy's, But I mean what do you think
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: about mister and missus muskrat. We think they are very
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: nice and kindly, said Raggedy Andy. Yes, I know they
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: are very nice and unselfish Raggedy's. But I mean, what
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: do you think the muskrats have? Hm, mused Raggedy Ann.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Is this a riddle or something like that? Freddy field Mouse. No,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: surry Bob, cried Freddy field Mouse. You wouldn't guess in
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: a long long time. Is it a new muskrat baby,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: asked Raggedy Ann. Nope, Freddy field Mouse replied. Then we
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: give up, said Raggedy Andy. I felt a stitch rip
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: out of my raghead. I guess so hard. Raggedy Ann
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: carefully looked at Raggedy Andy's head, even taking off his
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: little blue and white cap to see better. You haven't
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: lost a single stitch, Raggedy Andy, she laughed. You mustn't
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: try and fool us that way, well, laughed Raggedy Andy.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I give up anyway. I can't guess what the muskrats have.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I won't give up, said Raggedy Ann. But please tell
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: us anyway, Freddy field Mouse. Then I guess I'll tell you, agreed,
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Freddy field Mouse. But I spect you'll be sprised. When
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: I was swinging upon a swingy weed right over the
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: muskrat kitchen door, I heard missus muskrat squeal and I
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: almost fell off the weed into the water, thinking that
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: something had her. What was it, Freddy field Mouse, Raggedy
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: Andy asked, I was just about to tell you, Freddy
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: field Mouse replied, just you be patient, Raggedy Andy, Raggedy
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Ann said jokingly as she pushed Andy's little blue and
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: white cap down over his shoe button eyes. I am,
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Raggedy Andy left, but I'm so anxious to know why
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: missus muskrat squealed as if something had her. I climbed
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: back up the swinging weed and ran down towards the
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: muskrat's kitchen door and peeped through the grass. But Missus
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Muskrat had run in the house and mister Muskrat had
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: run after her. I could hear them both squealing, and
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: I said to myself, the muskrats are squealing because they
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: are happy, that's what. And I walked right in without knocking.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: And what do you think, dear me, freddyfield mouse. If
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: you don't tell us what you think instead of asking
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: us what we think, I'm sure to rip all the
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: stitches out of my raghead trying to guess, said Raggedy Andy.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: When I walked into the muskrat's house and into their
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: living room, there stood Missus Muskrat with one in her hand,
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: and mister Muskrat with one in his hand. And when
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: they saw me, they put one in my hand. Not
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: three muskrat babies, Raggedy Ann said, no, surree, Bob, three
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: ice cream sodas, That's what said Freddy field Mouse. Raggedy
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: and he jumped up and danced about in the sand,
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: kicking his rag feet so high in the air he
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: almost fell in the looking glass brook and Raggedy Ann
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: just sat still and smiled. Wasn't that enough to make
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: anyone squeal to find an ice cream soda fountain right
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: in their living room, asked freddyfield Mouse. We are very
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: very glad, said Raggedy Ann. And how do you suppose
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: the soda water fountain ever happened to be in the
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Muskrat's living room, freddyfield Mouse. Missus Muskrat told me she
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: was sitting in the armchair darning mister Muskrat's socks when
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: she heard a funny sizzling noise right in the back
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: of her and she jumped up so quick she upset
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: her darning basket and ran out the kitchen porch. Then
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: she said to mister Muskrat, there's a sizzler in our
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: living room, and mister Muskrat picked up a stick so
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: that he might have something to poke the sizzler with
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: if it needed poking. But when they both got in
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: their living room again, they soon saw that the sizzling
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: noise came from the pretty little soda water fountain, and
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: we drank sodas until we had enough. I'm running to
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: tell everybody and invite them to the Muskrat's house to
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: eat ice cream sodas, said Freddy field Mouse as he
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: jumped through the grass. Well what do you think, asked
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Raggedy Andy. I'm thinking a lot of happy thoughts. Raggedy
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Ann laughingly replied, Yes, I am too, said Raggedy Andy.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: But don't you think our wishing pebble must have been
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: a real, for sure wishing pebble? After all, you know,
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: we wished that the muskrats would have an ice cream
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: soda water fountain in their living room. Then I guess
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: it must have been a wishing pebble, said Raggedy Ann.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: And I wish that I had kept it now I
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: thought it was only a make believe wishing pebble, and
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: I buried it in the sand. Again. Well, we have
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: had that much fun with it anyway, laughed Raggedy Andy.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: And we should be happy of that. Indeed, whenever we
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: give pleasure to others, we always make happiness for ourselves.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: And the two Raggedy's shoe button nice twinkled merrily. End
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: of chapter five, Chapter six of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: the public domain for more information or to volunteer, please
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: visit LibriVox dot org. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruhle,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Chapter six. Let's run down to mister and Missus Muskrat's
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: home and see their new ice cream soda water fountain,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: said Raggedy Andy as he lifted Raggedy Ann to her feet.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: You are just in time, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: cried Missus Muskrat. We have had sixteen ice cream sodas already,
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: and mister Muskrat is going to have one more. I've
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: had every flavor except pineapple left, mister Muskrat, and I
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: want to try that. Then I will rest up for
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: about fifteen minutes and try them all over again. I
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: wish you rag dolls could eat ice cream, said Missus Muskrat.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: You can't imagine how good it tastes. I wish that
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: we could. Raggedy Ann sighed, but you know we haven't
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: any real for sure mouths like you folks, and when
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: we taste anything, it just runs and soaks our rag faces.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: Then we have to be scrubbed, laughed Raggedy Andy. Don't
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: you think if we made a little teeny weeny hole
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: in the center of your mouths. We could put a
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: straw in the hole and you could taste the sodas.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Mister Muskrat asked, we might try it. Raggedy Ann agreed.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: I can sew up the hole again after you've tasted
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: the sodas, if you wish, said Missus Muskrat. Mister Muskrat
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: set down his glass of soda water and ran to
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: his tool box and brought back a large nail. Now,
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: I can poke this nail right through the center of
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: your mouths and make a hole large enough to put
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: a straw in.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: Won't it hurt.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Them, Missus Muskrat asked, not even a tiny speck. Raggedy
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Andy laughed. Our heads are nothing but cloth stuffed with
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: nice white, clean cotton, and besides, we often get rips
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: in our heads and bodies. No, indeed, Missus Muskrat, it
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: won't hurt at all. So mister Muskrat soon poked two
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: holes in the Raggedy's mouths with his nail, and Missus
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: Muskrat filled two glasses with vanilla soda. For she explained,
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: if the vanilla soaks through the cotton, it won't stain
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: as much as strawberry or raspberry or chocolate. It was
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: easy for Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy to drink the
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: lovely ice cream soda through a straw and they were surprised,
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: after drinking two glasses apiece to find that the soda
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: did not soak through to the back of their rag heads.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Dear me, Raggedy Ann exclaimed, as she held out her
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: glass for more. Just think of what we have missed
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: all these years. Raggedy Andy, that is just what I
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: have been thinking, laughed Raggedy Andy. And I was also
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: thinking that I would like to try a glass of
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: raspberry soda. I don't believe it will soak through any
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: more than the vanilla did, Raggedy Ann replied, So, I
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: guess that I will have a strawberry soda while you
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: folks just sit here and have all the sodas you wish,
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: said mister Muskrat. I'll just run around the neighborhood and
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: ask everybody in to have sodas. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Andy had hardly finished their ninth glass of soda water
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: when the neighbors began trooping into the Muskrat home. So
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: then the Raggedys had to quit in order to help
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: mister and missus Muskrat serve the neighbors with the different flavors.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy cried,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: mister Muskrat. I don't know how this magic soda water
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: fountain came in in our living room, but I am
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: I'm very happy and thankful that it is here. For now,
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: all our friends can come in any time and help
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: themselves to all the sodas they wish. Raggedy Ann wished
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: the soda water fountain in here for you, Raggedy Andy
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: told mister and missus Muskrat. Raggedy Ann found a wishing pebble,
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: said Raggedy Andy, and she wished for a few things.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: Of course, everybody wanted to see the wonderful wishing pebble,
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: and they were so disappointed when Raggedy Ann told them
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: that she had buried the wonderful pebble in the sand.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: I do not believe I would ever be able to
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: find it again, she laughed. We'll all go and help
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: you find it, said mister Muskrat, just as soon as
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: we all have six more glasses apiece. The nice part
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: about the magic soda water fountain, said Missus Muskrat, is
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: that you can drink about fifteen glasses and it never
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: makes your stomach ache. I think the nicest part of
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: it is that all your friends have been asked to
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: share in your pleasures, laughed Raggedy Ann. And all the
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: friends of mister and Missus Muskrat agreed to this, for
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: everyone knows how nice it is to have free ice
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: cream sodas whenever they wish them, and especially magic ice
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: cream sodas that never give anyone the stomach ache. End
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: of chapter six.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Chapter seven of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a
• 47:32
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• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny gruhle Oi. Raggedy Ann
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: cried after she and Andy had drank fifteen glasses of
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: soda water from mister Muskrat's magic Soda water fountain. I
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: don't believe I can drink another soda They were so good,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Raggedy Andy laughed. But I guess that I've had enough
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: for now. Mister and Missus Muskrat and all their neighbors
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: said that they had all the sodas they wished for.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Let's go out and see if we can find the
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: wishing pebble where Raggedy Ann buried it in the sand,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: suggested mister Muskrat. Then when we find it, we'll all
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: be thirsty again and we can come back and hear
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: and have more sodas. That's a fine idea, cried missus Muskrat.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: And if we find the wishing pebble we can wish
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: for everything. Let hurry and find it. So out the
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: door she ran, followed by Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: and mister Muskrat and all their neighbors. There was Georgia
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Groundhog and Henrietta hedgehog, and Charlie chipmunk, and Freddy field
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Mouse and freederfield Mouse and all the rest of the neighbors.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: They ran out the door in a long string and
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: raced down the bank toward the sandy shore where Raggedy
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Ann and Raggedy Andy had found the wishing pebble. Here's
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: where we were sitting when we found the pebble, said
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Raggedy Ann. But I can't remember where I was when
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: he made the wishes, or where I was when I
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: buried the wishing pebble in the sand. Then we must
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: hunt all along the sandy stretch of shore, said Georgie Groundhog,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: as he began scratching the sand right and left. I
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: guess we'd better all hunt a little distance apart from
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: each other, laughed Henrietta Hedgehog, as she brushed the sand
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: from her dress where Georgie Groundhog had kicked it. We
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: can find it easier if we search farther apart, said
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: missus Muskrat. I'll scratch up the sand over here, and
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: soon all the friends were sending the sand in all
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: directions as they dug for the magic wishing pebble. Raggedy
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Ann looked over to where Georgie Groundhog had been digging,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: and all she could see of him was his tail
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: sticking out of a hole in the sand, and he
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: was sending the sand up from the bottom of the
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: hole in a shower. Oh, say Georgie Groundhog, Raggedy Ann laughed,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Stop digging for a minute, Have you found it? Raggedy Ann?
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Georgie Groundhog wished to know. As he climbed out of
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: the hole. He had dug his face all c with
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: wet sand. No, we haven't found it, Georgie, Raggedy Ann
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: laughed as she brushed the sand from his face with
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: her apron, and as the others all came and listened.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Raggedy Ann said, when I buried the magic wishing pebble,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: I just pushed it down under the loose sand, so
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: when we find it, it'll only be about an inch
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: under the surface. And here I was scratchin and diggin'
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: a regular tunnel, laughed Georgie Groundhog. We must just feel
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: around in the loose sand, said Raggedy Andy. And when
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: we find it, it'll probably be right near the top. Yes,
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: it will, said Raggedy Ann. I remember that I just
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: wish that a garden of lollipops would be growing right
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: at missus Muskrat's kitchen door. And then I pushed it
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: right under the sand, for I thought it wasn't a
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: real for sure wishing pebble. Isn't it too bad? You
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: didn't know, Henrietta Hedgehog said, But there were no lollipops
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: growing at our kitchen door, said mister Muskrat. For I
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: came in and went out of the kitchen door many times,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: and the lollypops had been growing there. I know I
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: would have seen them. Surely they must be there, said
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Henrietta Hedgehog. Cause if Raggedy Ann wished for the magic
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: soda water fountain and it came in your house, surely
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: the lollipops must have come too. All run and see,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: said mister Muskrat. Let's all run and see, cried Missus Muskrat.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: I knew there were no lollipops growing here, said mister
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Muskrat as he and his friends came to the Muskrat's
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: kitchen door. Raggedy Ann ran her rag hand up through
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: her yarn hair and thought and thought. I can't understand,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: she said, why one wish came true and not the other.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Let's all go to the living room and have another
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: glass of ice cream soda, said Missus Muskrat. Then perhaps
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: we can think better. Yes, let's do, cried Georgie Groundhog.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: We can think a whole lot better if we have soda.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Oh dear me, sus, Missus Muskrat cried when she walked
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: into the living room. There isn't any magic soda water
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: fountain any more. It's gone, cried all the neighbors. Ha
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: ha ha, a voice sounded in through the kitchen door.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Of course it's gone. Who was that, Raggedy Andy shouted.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: There's no one around here that I can see, said
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Henrietta Hedgehog, as she and the others came out of
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: the Muskrat's house. Ha ha ha. The voice again laughed
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: from across the looking glass brook. I saw raggedy Ann
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: find the magic wishing pebble, and when she buried it,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: I soon found it. And I wish the lollypops would disappear,
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: and the magic soda water fountain too, And I've got
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: the wishing pebble. Don't cry, raggedy Ann said to missus Muskrat.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: We will find who it is and get the pebble
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: back end of chapter seven. Read by Patrice de Hart, Sacramento,
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: March first, twenty twenty one.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: Chapter eight of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: Recorded by Gracie Lynne Wichita. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: Johnny Gruel Chapter eight. Missus Muskrat couldn't keep from crying.
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: I had planned on all our friends coming in whenever
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: they wished in helping themselves to the magic soda water.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: She sobbed. It is so nice to have a cold
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: glass of ice cream soda on a hot day, said
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: mister Muskrat, as he wiped his eyes with his red
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: bandana hanky. Well let's be thankful that we had a
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: nice lot of ice cream sodas. Anyhow, said Henrieta Hedgehog.
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: I wonder who the disagreeable person is. Raggedy Andy mused.
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: I can't imagine Raggedy Ann replied, I don't see why
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: he didn't let the muskrats have the lollipop garden and
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: the ice cream soda water fountain. He could easily have
• 54:19
  Speaker 6: wished for another just like it. Whoever it is, said
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: Georgie Groundhog. He must be very, very selfish and wants
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: everything for himself. It doesn't want anyone else to have
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: any pleasures. I can't imagine who would be that selfish
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: Along the looking glass Brook, said Missus Muskrat. I think
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: it would be a good plan for all of us
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: to try and find out who took the magic wishing pebble,
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: so that we can get it back, said Raggedy Andy.
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: If I find him, I shall throw him down and
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: take it away from him, said George Groundhog. We mustn't
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: do that, said Raggedy Ann, for you know, the magic
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: wishing pebble really belongs to whoever finds it. And while
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: I had it, it belonged to me. And when I
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: buried it again, then don't you see it belonged to
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: whoever found it the next time. So we must not
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: take it away from him, for that would be wrong.
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: Even if he had wished the magic soda water found
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: out of the Muskrat's living room, then how can we
• 55:33
  Speaker 6: ever get it again? Raggedy Andy wanted to know first,
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: said Raggedy Ann. We must find out who has it.
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: Then if he loses the wishing pebble or if he
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: buries it as I did, if we can find it,
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: it will belong to us and we can sit down
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: and wish for a lot of things. If I find it,
• 55:58
  Speaker 6: I'm going to wish for a bicycle, said Georgie Groundhog.
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: Then I can write real fast up and down the
• 56:05
  Speaker 6: paths through the yellow Meadow, and I will wish for
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: a pair of roller skates, said Henrietta Hedgehog. Then Georgie
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: and I can have lots of fun together. I'll wish
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: for the soda water fountain back again, said Missus Muskrat,
• 56:22
  Speaker 6: so that all our friends can have parties at our house.
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: I don't know what I shall wish for, said Raggedy
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: Ann thoughtfully, but I'll probably think of something whenever I
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: find the magic wishing pebble. I think we had all
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: better hunt for the selfish person who has the wishing pebble,
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: said Raggedy Andy. We can never find it by sitting here.
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: I'll start right out and find it, said Georgie Groundhog
• 56:51
  Speaker 6: as he jumped to his feet. And when I find it,
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: I'll come right back here and let every one of
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: you wish for as many things as you want. Oh,
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: dear missus Muskrat, cried mercy me. Henrietta Hedgehog squealed for
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: Georgie Groundhog had no more than got the words out
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: of his mouth when his feet flew up in the air,
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: and he stood upon his head with his legs and
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: arms waving about in a strange manner. Raggedy Ann and
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: Raggedy Andy ran to Georgie Groundhog and pulled his feet
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: down to the floor. But as soon as they let
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: go of his feet, they flew up in the air again.
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: So when they pulled Georgie's feet to the floor again,
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: mister Muskrat sat upon them and held them there. Whatever
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: happened to you, Georgie, he asked, I just flew upside down,
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: said Georgie, and I tell you it surely surprised me.
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: How do you feel now, asked Raggedy Ann. All right,
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: Georgie laughed. Mister Muskrat got off of Georgie Groundhog's feet
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: and Georgie stood up, but again his beat flew up
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: in the air, and he kicked his feet about trying
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: to get them down to the floor. It makes me dizzy,
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: he cried. Raggedy Ann had been thinking as hard as
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: her raghead could think. Wait, she said, cross your fingers,
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: Georgie Groundhog, she cried, There you see, she laughed, as
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: Georgie Groundhog's feet came down to the floor and he
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: was able to stand up again. Whoever has the magic
• 58:29
  Speaker 6: wishing pebble knows that we want to get it back again,
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: and they are wishing for Georgie to stand upon his head.
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: And you know, whispered raggedy Ann, if you cross your
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: fingers that means King's X, and you can't be magic
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: at all. Then said Raggedy Andy. What will happen when
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: one of us gets magic? To raggedy Ann, I don't know,
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: laughed raggedy Ann. We haven't any fingers to cross. Raggedy
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: Ann had hardly said this than she stood upon her head.
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: I don't care, Raggedy Ann laughed, for my head is
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: stuffed with nice, clean white cotton, and it doesn't make
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: me a bit dizzy. Really, it is a lot of fun.
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: When she said this, her feet came down to the ground,
• 59:24
  Speaker 6: and she wiggled one of her shoe button eyes at everybody.
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: You see, she smiled. Whoever has the magic wishing pebble
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: is teasing us. And if they think we enjoy it,
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: then they will quit, for they won't find any fun
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: in it if we are having any fun. That's the
• 59:43
  Speaker 6: way with selfish people. So if we always make them
• 59:49
  Speaker 6: believe that their mischief does not annoy us, they will
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: always let us be. End of chapter.
• 59:57
  Speaker 7: Eight, Chapter nine of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 7: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruel. When Raggedy Ann
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 7: and Raggedy Andy left the Muskrats and their neighbors, they
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 7: walked down the bank of the looking Glass Brook, asking
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 7: every one they met if they knew who had found
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 7: the wishing pebble, which Raggedy Ann had buried in the sand.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 7: I don't know who has it, Grampy Hoppitoad said, but
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 7: it must be a very magical pebble if it can
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 7: bring lovely ice cream soda water fountains by just wishing
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: for them. Oh, indeed, it is a very wonderful pebble,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Andy replied. Why. Raggedy Ann only had it a
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 7: few minutes, and she wished for the ice cream soda
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 7: water fountain to be in the muskrat living room and
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 7: a lollipop garden to be at the muskrat's kitchen door.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 7: And right away there they were. You know what I believe,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Andy asked, Raggedy Ann. What Raggedy Andy asked in reply. Why.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 7: I believe that whoever it was who found the magical
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 7: wishing pebble where I buried it, must have been watching
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: us while we sat there in the sand. And I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 7: think that he heard me wish for the lollipop garden,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 7: but he didn't hear me wish for the fountain. So
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 7: when he found the magical wishing pebble, he immediately wished
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 7: that the lollipop garden would grow near his own kitchen door.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 7: And you think that he did not know about the
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 7: magical ice cream soda water foundon, asked Grampy Hoppy Tooad.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 7: That is what I believe, said Raggedy Ann. You see,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 7: mister Muskrat wished all of his neighbors to share in
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 7: the fun of drinking lovely ice cream sodas, so he
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 7: sent Freddy field Mouse to tell everybody. And I guess
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: that whoever has the magical wishing pebble must have heard
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: Freddy tell of the soda water fountain. I hear every
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 7: word you say. A voice shouted across the looking glass
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 7: brook at the three friends, and I have the magical
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 7: wishing pebble safe in my pocket and you will never
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: never get it. So there it seems to me that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: I have heard the voice before, Grampy Hoppyitoad said, but
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 7: I can't think who it is. You'd better watch out,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 7: or I'll make you stand upon your head. Gmpy hoppy toad.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 7: The voice cried, Why don't you do it now? Grampy
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 7: hoppy Toad shouted back across the looking glass, Brook, you
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: just wait and I will, the voice replied. I'm wishing
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: it now, and pretty soon you will stand right upon
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 7: your head. I feel kind of funny, said Grampy hoppy
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 7: Toad to Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Quick cross your fingers,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 7: said Raggedy Andy. No, I shan't, said Grampy hoppy Toad.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 7: I don't believe he can make me stand upon my head,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 7: can't I? The voice shouted from the reeds across the
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: looking glass, Brook, you just wait. I'm wishing real hard
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 7: and you'll stand upon your head in a minute. Ha
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  Speaker 7: ha ah, laughed Grampy hoppy Toad. I knew you couldn't
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 7: do it, and I haven't got my fingers crossed either.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 7: No wonder, the voice cried, I was holding the magical
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 7: wishing pebble in my left hand. That's why now you
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 7: just watch out. How does that feel to you? Now?
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 7: I can't feel a thing, laughed Grampy Hoppy Toad, teasingly.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 7: And I don't believe you really have the magical wishing pebble. Yes,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 7: I have, the voice shouted, for I have the lovely
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 7: ice cream soda water founded in my own living room,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 7: and the lollipop garden right at my own back door.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 7: And no one shall have a single glass of ice
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 7: cream soda water or a single lollipop from my lollipop garden.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't be too sure of that, cried Grampy hoppy Toad,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 7: for you can wish as hard as you like, and
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: you can't make me stand upon my head. So maybe
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 7: the magic has gone out of the wishing pebble, and
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 7: maybe you're ice cream soda water fountain and your lollipop
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: garden has gone with it. Grampy Hoppy Toad winked his
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 7: eye at Raggedy Ann as if to say, I'm just teasing. Well,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: something is wrong with the magical wishing pebble, cried the voice,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 7: because I've never had any trouble making anyone stand upon
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 7: their heads when I wished it. I'm going home and
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 7: have a glass of ice cream soda water and leave
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 7: you there to think how nice it tastes, isn't he mean?
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 7: Laughed Raggedy Ann. But when a person grows stingy, it
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 7: isn't very long before they lose all they have, And
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 7: then my, how quick they are to ask favors of
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 7: those they have been stingy with. Yes, laughed Granpy happy Toad.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 7: The best way to be is to do as many
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 7: pleasant and kindly things as possible for others. Then others
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 7: love you and help you in return when you need it.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: I'll keep my two large goggle eyes open for the
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 7: person who has the magical wishing pebble, said Grumpy Hoppy
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 7: Toad as he shook hands good bye with Raggedy Ann
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 7: and Raggedy Andy. And if I find out who has it,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 7: I'll hunt you and tell you thank you very much,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 7: said Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. I believe some day
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 7: we will find the magical wishing pebble, and then we
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 7: can have lots of fun wishing. Do you know what,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann asked Raggedy Andy. I bet you that whoever
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: has the magical wishing pebble can't make its wishes come
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 7: true any more, because they keep wishing unkind things. I'll
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: bet so, too, laughed Raggedy Ann. And it wouldn't surprise
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 7: me a little teeny weeny bit to find out that
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 7: the magical ice cream soda water fountain will not taste
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 7: very good. Whoever has the magical wishing pebble, and the
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 7: lollipops won't taste good to them either, said Raggedy Andy.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 7: I can hear you talking about me, cried the voice
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 7: of whoever had the magical wishing pebble. And you'd better
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 7: be careful what you say. Why don't you come out
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 7: from behind those weeds so we can see you, asked
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Andy, because the voice said angrily, I went home
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 7: and I found my magical ice cream soda water fountain
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 7: and my lollipop gardens just as I left them. How
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: did the soda water taste, asked Raggedy Andy. I didn't
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: taste any the voice replied, And I believe you two
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 7: old rag dolls are the cause of my soda water
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 7: fountain tasting bitter and my lollipop's tasting like burnt candy.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 7: Why we haven't anything to do with it, said Raggedy Ann.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 7: The magical wishing pebble worked very nice when I had it,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 7: and all the little creatures thought the ice cream sodas
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 7: were so nice. And I know just why it worked
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 7: such nice magical things for Raggedy Ann. The selfish person cried,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 7: I believe it will work just as well for you
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 7: if you wish unselfish things, said Raggedy Ann. You can't
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 7: fool me that way. The selfish person cried, I know
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 7: that you have a candy heart, Raggedy Ann, and that
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 7: is the reason you can work the magical wishing pebble
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 7: so nice. That isn't the reason at all, laughed Raggedy Ann.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 7: If you wish nice things, you'll soon find that they
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 7: come true. You just wait, cried the voice. I'll show you.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 7: Just as soon as I catch Raggedy Ann asleep, I'll
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 7: take her candy heart. Then all my wishes will come true,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 7: just the same as hers did. You won't ever get
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann's candy heart, Raggedy Andy cried, for I shall
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 7: watch over her all the time she sleeps, And if
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 7: I ever catch you, i'll see who you are, cried
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Andy as he ran and jumped into the looking
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 7: glass brook, intending to swim across and chase the disagreeable person.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 7: But when Raggedy Andy lit in the water, he kicked
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 7: and splashed about, and only succeeded in swimming in a circle.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann got a long stick, and as she fished
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Andy out, she saw a queer little creature run
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 7: out of the weeds on the other side of the
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 7: looking glass brook and go scampering away as fast as
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 7: his thin legs would carry him. Raggedy Andy was dripping wet,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 7: but he still wore his cheery smile. When you get
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 7: nice and dry, Raggedy Andy, we'll start and follow the
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 7: little man, for I saw which way he ran, said
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann. And the two Raggedys sat in the warm
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 7: sunshine and left as happily as they ever had before
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 7: they lost the wonderful, magical wishing Pebble. End of chapter nine.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 7: Read by M. J. Frank, Portland, Oregon, February twenty six,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty one. Chapter ten of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 7: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 7: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: visit LibriVox dot org. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruell.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 7: When the nice, warm sunshine had thoroughly dried Raggedy Andy
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 7: after his splash in the looking Glass Brook, the two
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 7: dolls walked down the bank looking for a place to cross.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 7: After a while, they came to a funny little hole
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 7: in the bank, and all about the hole the mud
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 7: had been built up into a small wall about an
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 7: inch high. Hum mused Raggedy Ann as she noticed the
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 7: queer hole. I wonder what that is. Raggedy Andy laid
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 7: flat upon the ground and looked down into the hole.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 7: Can you see anything, asked Raggedy Ann. I can't see
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 7: a thing, dear be subthigs grabbed by dose and a
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 7: cad tog played. Did you say something grabbed your nose
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 7: and you can't talk, plain, laughed Raggedy Ann. Yes, Raggedy
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 7: Andy replied, still with his ragged face over the hole.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 7: Subthig is pig jig by doze something pinching your nose,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann repeated, in surprise, That's what I'd said, raggedy ad.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Andy laughed, but I can't see what it is.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 7: I don't heard a bit though you talked just like
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 7: you had a cold in your nose, Raggedy Andy. Raggedy
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 7: Ann could not help laughing. Shall I pull you away
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 7: from the hole? It may be a pinching bug. I'm
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 7: not a pinching bug, A queer little voice said from
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 7: down beneath Raggedy Andy's face. It isn't a pinching bug,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 7: laughed Raggedy Andy. I just said so, I heard it,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 7: laughed Raggedy Ann. I guess it would be best if
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 7: I pulled you away from the hole. And with this,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann lifted Raggedy Andy away from the queer little hole.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 7: And there, hanging on Raggedy Andy's painted nose was Clifton Crawdad.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 7: Clifton Crawdad flapped his tail as hard as he could,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 7: but he did not let go of Raggedy Andy's painted nose.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 7: Clifton Crawdad pinched Raggedy Andy's painted nose so hard it
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 7: was all pinched up into a wrinkle. And to keep
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 7: from losing his hold, Clifton Crawdad reached up with his
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 7: other claw and caught hold of Raggedy Andy's shoe button.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 7: Eye here said Raggedy Ann, reprovingly, I wouldn't do that.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 7: Clifton Crawdad, you may scratch all the shininess off Raggedy
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 7: Andy's shoe button eye. Clifton Crawdad only flapped his tail,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 7: and as he had water at the bottom of his
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 7: queer little home, he splashed mud all around Raggedy Andy's chin.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 7: I guess i'll pick him up off, said Raggedy Ann.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 7: After thinking a while. He may get your necktie all muddy. Baby,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 7: you bed better pigib off, said Raggedy Andy. But be
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 7: careful you don't hurt him. Raggedy Ann caught hold of
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 7: Clifton Crawdad with her two soft rag hands. Does that
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 7: hurt you, she asked in her kindest raggedy tone. No,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 7: not a tiny speck, said Clifton Crawdad. You see I
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 7: have a very hard shell and your hands are nice
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 7: and soft. Raggedy Ann pulled upon Clifton crowded until she
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 7: held him out from Raggedy Andy's red face and Clifton
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 7: Crawdad's arms stretched up till Andy cried, wait a bit it,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ad, you bustn't pull his arms off. She won't
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 7: pull my arms off, said Clifton Crawdad. For I'll let
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 7: go before she pulls that hard, then you'd better let go,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 7: suggested Raggedy Ann. For I'm going to pull hard now,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 7: then I'll let go, said Clifton Crawdad. And when he
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 7: did let go, Raggedy Ann was pulling so hard she
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 7: fell over backwards, carrying Clifton Crawdad with her. Raggedy Ann
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 7: put Clifton Crawdad down upon the sand and smoothed out
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 7: her apron. Just see how muddy you made Raggedy Andy's chin,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 7: she said, reprovingly. Raggedy Andy should never have put his
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 7: face over my front door, said Clifton Crawdad. Well, I'll
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 7: wash it off before the mud dries, laughed Raggedy Andy.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 7: You might have lost one of your claws, said Raggedy Ann. Yes,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 7: said Raggedy Andy, after he had washed his face. Would
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 7: if I had been some one else and just picked
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 7: you off in a hurry, I might have pulled one
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 7: of your claws right off. I know it, Clifton Crawdad answered,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 7: But after a while it would have grown on again.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 7: I'm glad you didn't do it, though, Raggedy Andy, I
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 7: always thought you crawdads lived in the water, said Raggedy Ann.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 7: We do most of the time, Clifton Crawdad answered, but
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 7: sometimes we dig little round homes in the banks of
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 7: the streams and lived there. Have you seen a queer
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 7: little man with thin legs and a wishing pebble? Asked
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann. And then she told Clifton Krawdad all about
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 7: the wishing pebble and the muskrat's ice cream soda water fountain.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 7: When she had finished telling him, Clifton Crawdad said, I
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 7: know who you mean. For one day he came here
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 7: and filled my front door full of mud, and it
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 7: took me a long time to clean it out.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 8: Again.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 7: It's Meinky, and he's very unkind and selfish. I didn't
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 7: know he had a magical wishing pebble, though you'd think
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 7: that any one with such a wonderful pebble would be
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 7: very happy and kindly. Indeed he should be, said Raggedy Ann. Well,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 7: if Minky ever puts his face down like Raggedy Andy
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 7: did at my front door, I'll hold him until you
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 7: come and take the pebble away from him. No, you
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 7: mustn't do that, Clifton crawded, said Raggedy Ann. For although
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 7: it did not hurt Raggedy Andy when you pinched him,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 7: it would hurt Minky very much. And we must never
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 7: hurt others, even when they are mean to us. End
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 7: of chapter ten. Read by M. J. Frank, Portland, Oregon,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 7: February twenty sixth, twenty twenty one. Chapter eleven of Raggedy
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 7: Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 7: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 7: to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Raggedy Ann's Wishing
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 7: Pebble by Johnny Gruel, Chapter eleven. Isn't it nice to
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 7: sit here in the sunshine? Raggedy Ann exclaimed. It makes
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 7: me feel so nice and sleepy. It feels just as
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 7: if I was getting so light and fluffy I could fly,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 7: said Raggedy Andy, as he laid back and put his
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 7: arms under his raghead. Put your head on me for
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 7: a pillow, Raggedy Ann, he said. The sky is as
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 7: blue as blue can be, and the clouds are as
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 7: white as popcorn. It's nice to lie here and look
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 7: up at them. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dozed and
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 7: had hardly been asleep for five minutes when the grass
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 7: beside them was parted and the two little eyes looked
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 7: out at them. I wish I knew for sure whether
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 7: they are asleep or not, said Minky. Minky was the
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 7: selfish and disagreeable person who had found the magical wishing
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 7: pebble when Raggedy Ann had buried it in the sand.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 7: I guess they are asleep for sure, chuckled Minki as
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 7: he crept out of the grass toward the sleeping Raggedy's.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 7: I must get raggedy Ann's candy heart, he said out
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 7: loud to himself. Then if I eat the candy heart,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 7: I am sure that I can make the magical wishing
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 7: pebble work. And as Minky had b this time reached
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 7: the sleeping Raggedy's he took a piece of string from
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 7: his pocket and tied their rag hands to their bodies
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 7: and tied their feet together. Then he pushed sticks in
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 7: the sand and tied their rag bodies to the sticks.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 7: From his pocket. Minki took a pair of scissors and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 7: was just about to snip a hole in raggedy Ann's
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 7: apron so that he could snip another hole in her
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 7: rag body and get her candy heart. When Raggedy Ann awakened,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 7: ha ha ha, laughed Minkie, I've got you tied tight
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 7: and I mean to have your candy heart. It won't
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 7: do you a speck of good, laughed Raggedy Ann, For
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 7: it wasn't the candy heart that made the magical wishing
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 7: pebble so magical. Well, now I'll get it and we
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 7: will soon see, cried Minky as he came toward Raggedy
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 7: Ann to snip a hole in her rag body. Minky
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 7: sat down beside Raggedy Ann to begin the snip, and
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 7: had hardly got seated before he let out a howl
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 7: and tried to get to his feet. Wow, he cried,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 7: as tears streamed down his nose. Something is biting me
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 7: and won't let go.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 7: And turning over and over, Minky rolled until he splashed
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 7: into the looking glass brook and came up kicking and squealing,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 7: wet and soaking. The selfish creature scrambled to the other
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 7: side and went howling over the bank and into the bushes.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 7: There said Clifton Crawdad, I am even with Minky for
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 7: filling my doorway with mud. What's o the fuss about,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Andy asked as he rubbed his shoe button eyes sleepily.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 7: Clifton Crawedad, and Raggedy Ann told him about Minky. Well,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 7: I guess we had better walk down the side of
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 7: the looking glass brook until we find a place to cross,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 7: said Raggedy Andy. Yes, I guess we had better go now.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann agreed as she held out her hand to
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 7: shake Clifton Crawdad's claw. Good Bye, good bye, said Clifton
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 7: Crawdad as he held out his left claw. Why you
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 7: must never shake hands left handed, said Raggedy Andy. I
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 7: have to, laughed Clifton Crawdad. I left my right claw
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 7: hanging on mister Minkie's pants, and I hope it is
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 7: still pinching him to beat the band. Oh dear, Raggedy
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 7: Ann cried as she got on her hands and knees
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 7: beside Clifton Crawdad. I am so sorry you lost your
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 7: claw just for me. I would rather have had Minky
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 7: get my candy heart many times than to have seen
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: you hurt.
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  Speaker 5: You two.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: Wait here just a minute, I'll be right back and
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: up the bank. She scrambled and out across the yellow meadow.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 7: At the first spider telegraph wires she came to, Raggedy
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 7: Ann found Jenny Cricket calling up the grocery for her
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 7: next day's dinner. When Jenny Cricket had finished with her marketing,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 7: Raggedy Ann asked, Jenny Cricket, do you know how to
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 7: telegraph the little Nome who works magic cures? Yes, indeed,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 7: Jenny Cricket replied. It took Jenny Cricket only a moment
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 7: to call mister Nome, and he said he would be
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 7: over in a few moments. Raggedy Ann told Jenny Cricket
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 7: all about the magical wishing pebble and selfish mister Minky
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 7: and all about how Clifton Crawded lost his claw helping
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 7: her and Raggedy Andy escape from mister Minkie. That was
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 7: kind of Clifton Crawdad, said Jenny Crockett. Well, here is
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 7: mister Nome. Raggedy Ann lost no time in telling mister
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 7: Nome about Clifton Crawdad, and mister Nome lost no time
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 7: in flying to the looking Glass Brook, so by the
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 7: time Raggedy Ann reached there, mister Nome had a new
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 7: claw upon Clifton Crawdad and had hurried back home. Now
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 7: we can shake hands good bye with you, Clifton Crawdad,
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  Speaker 7: laughed Raggedy Ann, and thank you so much for helping
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  Speaker 7: Raggedy Andy and me, oh, laughed Clifton crawded. I am
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  Speaker 7: so glad that I could help you, and I hope
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 7: you can find the magical wishing pebble again. So Raggedy
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 7: Ann and Raggedy Andy shook hands good bye with Clifton Crawdad,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 7: and arm in arm, they walked down the bank looking
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 7: for a place to cross the looking Glass Brook. Clifton
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 7: Crawdad was an and the ugly little fellows, said Raggedy Andy.
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  Speaker 7: But he surely was a good friend to have when
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 7: we needed one. End of chapter eleven, read by M. J. Frank, Portland, Oregon.
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  Speaker 6: Chapter twelve of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a
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  Speaker 6: Recorded by Gracie Lynn Wichita. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by
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  Speaker 6: Johnny Gruell. Chapter twelve well, Raggedy Andy said, after this,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: Raggedy Ann, when you feel sleepy, I'll try and not
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 6: feel sleepy at the same time, because I do not
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 6: want to be asleep when old mister Minky comes snooping
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 6: around trying to get your candy heart. If it had
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 6: not been for kind Clifton crawled head, I guess mister
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 6: Minky would have had my candy heart, but it would
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 6: not have been of any use to him, laughed Raggedy Ann.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think you would be as kindly if you
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 6: did not have a candy heart? Raggedy Ann, Oh, yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 6: Raggedy Ann replied, it does not make any difference with
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 6: either of us. Raggedy Andy. You are just as kindly
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 6: as I am, and you have no candy heart. That
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 6: is true, Raggedy Ann. Raggedy Andy said, perhaps it is
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 6: the nice, clean white cotton which we have in our ragheads.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 6: Maybe it is Raggedy Ann agreed. Ha ha ha, laughed
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 6: a voice from a tree back of the two raggedys.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 6: I am glad to hear you say that, and looking up,
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 6: who should Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy see, but old
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 6: mister Minky looking at them from the lower branches. I
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 6: do believe he is going to fish, said Raggedy Andy.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 6: Mister Minky, from his perch in the tree, let a
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 6: line with a hook on it fall down amongst the
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 6: tall grass at the bottom of the tree. How do
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 6: you expect to catch any fish in the tall grass,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 6: mister Minky, Raggedy Ann asked, Oh, I'm not fishing for fish.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 6: Mister Minky said, with a sly wink, what do you
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 6: spect he's fishing for? Raggedy Andy? Whispered Raggedy Ann. Let's
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 6: go over and see Raggedy Andy whispered back to Raggedy Ann.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 6: When mister Minky saw the two raggedys coming over to
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 6: see what he was fishing for, he almost fell off
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  Speaker 6: the limb he was so tickled for mister Minky was
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 6: really fishing for Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, although they
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 6: did not know it, and mister Minky wished to get
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 6: the two rag dolls underneath the tree so he could
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  Speaker 6: jerk upon the line and catch the hook in their
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 6: clothing and pulled them up to the limb. So the Raggedy's,
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  Speaker 6: not knowing what mister Minki intended doing, walked right over
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 6: under the tree and looked in the grass to see
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 6: what mister Minkie was fishing for. Hee yee, Minkie chuckled,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 6: dear me, sus, Raggedy Ann cried. Mister Minkie's hook had
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 6: caught in Raggedy Ann's apron, and then Raggedy Andy's pants,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: And there the two rag dolls hung in the air,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: twisting and twirling about as mister Minkie hauled them up
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 6: to the limb. Now, I told you I was glad
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: to hear you say it was the nice, clean, white
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 6: cotton in your heads that made the wishes come true.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 6: We didn't say that, cried Raggedy Andy. We said that
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: it only made us kindly. You can't fool me, mister
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 6: Minkie replied. So I will pull you up to the
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  Speaker 6: limb here and tie you tight. Then I'll take Raggedy
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  Speaker 6: Ann's candy heart and all the cotton out of your ragheads.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 6: We won't I have fun then, No, indeed, you will
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 6: not have fun, Raggedy Ann said, as she wiggled and kicked,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 6: For no one can have fun with anything they take
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: from another. And you will find that instead of making
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 6: your wishes come true, it will keep your wishes from
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 6: coming true. We'll soon see about that, shouted Minkie as
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  Speaker 6: he reached into his pocket for his scissors so that
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  Speaker 6: he could snip a hole in Raggedy Ann's dress and
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 6: get her candy heart. But mister Minkie evidently did not
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: see Bertha Bumblebee sitting upon the tree trunk right behind him.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 6: I guess you'd better not snip Raggedy Ann's dressed today,
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  Speaker 6: said Bertha Bumblebee, very buzzy like, and with that she
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  Speaker 6: flew and gave mister Minkie such a pop upon the
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  Speaker 6: top of his little round head. He gave out a
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 6: great cry and tumbled right out of the tree, and
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 6: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy fell right on top of him.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 6: Mister Minkie got to his feet as quickly as he could, and,
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  Speaker 6: without looking behind him to see what had happened, ran
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  Speaker 6: across the great Yellow Meadow, holding his hand to the
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 6: place where Bertha Bumblebee had popped him. It took Raggedy
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 6: Ann and Raggedy Andy only a moment to get the
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  Speaker 6: hook out of their clothes. Isn't it funny? Said Raggedy
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 6: Ann that when we tried to get fun from injuring
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 6: another trouble always bounces up and hits us a pop,
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  Speaker 6: and we get fooled every time. And Berta Bumblebee winked
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  Speaker 6: her eye at Raggedy Ann and flew out across the
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  Speaker 6: looking Glass Brook, singing a loud, buzzy tune as she went.
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  Speaker 6: End of chapter twelve.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: Chapter thirteen of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a
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  Speaker 5: Read by Caroline Spencer Carriage Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 5: Johnny Gruhle. Chapter thirteen, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy went
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  Speaker 5: skipping along the shore of the looking Glass Brook, stopping
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 5: here and there to lift up the head of a
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  Speaker 5: pretty little flower to see if there are any fairies
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  Speaker 5: sleeping inside, said Raggedy Ann. They were careful each time
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 5: they looked into a flower not to jiggle it too
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  Speaker 5: much and awaken the little fairy. And when they found
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 5: a little teeny weeny fairy sound asleep inside a pretty
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 5: little flower, Raggedy Ann's and Raggedy Andy's little shoe button
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 5: eyes twinkled with excitement and fun. The two rag dolls
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  Speaker 5: strolled along until they came to a log which had
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  Speaker 5: fallen across the looking Glass Brook, forming a nice bridge
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  Speaker 5: over which they could walk and get upon the side
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  Speaker 5: of the brook where mister Minky lived. I guess the
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  Speaker 5: best thing for us to do, said Raggedy Ann, is
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 5: to try and get the wishing pebble away from Minky,
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  Speaker 5: and then we can wish him to be real kind
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  Speaker 5: and loving. Yes, agreed Raggedy Andy, that would be a
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  Speaker 5: good plan. For while old mister Minky has the wishing pebble,
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  Speaker 5: no one gets any good out of it. And if
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  Speaker 5: we can get it and wish mister Minky to be
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  Speaker 5: real good and generous, then we can give the wishing
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 5: pebble back to him and he will have lots of
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 5: fun wishing nice things for others. Then let's cross the
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  Speaker 5: brook upon this log, said Raggedy Ann, and we will
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 5: try and find mister Minki and ask him for the
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 5: wishing pebble. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy had just reached
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 5: the center of the log bridge when their feet slipped
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 5: out from under them, and they both went splash into
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 5: the looking glass brook. And as they looked up, who
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  Speaker 5: should they see coming out upon the log with a
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 5: long stick in his hand. But mister Minky, that's the
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 5: time I fooled you, he shouted, as the raggedys splashed
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 5: about in the water.
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  Speaker 6: I thought you.
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  Speaker 5: Would try to cross here, and I put soap sods
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  Speaker 5: upon the log and made it slippery so that you
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 5: would slip and fall into the water. Now I will
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  Speaker 5: fish you out with this long stick and drag you
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  Speaker 5: to the bank and get Raggedy Ann's candy heart. Mister
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 5: Minky reached out with the long stick and poked at
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  Speaker 5: Raggedy Ann, trying to get the end of the stick
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  Speaker 5: fastened in her dress or apron. But each time mister
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 5: Minky thought he had Raggedy Ann's dress fastened upon the stick,
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  Speaker 5: Raggedy Andy gave Raggedy Ann a pull and the stick
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 5: came loose. If you don't quit loosening Raggedy Ann's dress,
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  Speaker 5: when I get the stick fastened in it, I'll tie
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  Speaker 5: a stone around your neck when I fish you out,
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  Speaker 5: Raggedy Andy. Then i'll throw you back into the water
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  Speaker 5: and you'll sink. Ha ha ha laughed Raggedy Andy. That
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't hurt me a spec, mister Minkie, And you might
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  Speaker 5: as well know now that you will never get Raggedy
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  Speaker 5: Ann's candy heart if I can help it, dear me,
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  Speaker 5: Raggedy Ann said. To hear you talk, mister Minkie, one
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 5: would think Raggedy Andy had done something mean to you.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care, mister Minkie, replied, I am tired of
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  Speaker 5: having Raggedy Andy keep me from getting your candy heart
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  Speaker 5: and having my wishes come true. If you would just
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  Speaker 5: let us take the magic wishing pebble for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 5: we would wish something nice for you, and you would
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 5: then be able to meet the loveliest wishes and have
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  Speaker 5: them all come true. I wouldn't trust you with a
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  Speaker 5: magic wishing pebble, for I know you would wish something
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  Speaker 5: very unpleasant for me, said the selfish little creature. I'll
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  Speaker 5: fish Raggedy Andy out first and tie the stone about
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 5: his neck. Ha ha, he cried, as his long stick
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 5: caught in Raggedy Andy's pants. Now I have you, and
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 5: with many winks and chuckles, mister Minky drew Raggedy Andy
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 5: up to the log. Raggedy Ann kicked and splashed about
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 5: in the water, trying to swim to Raggedy Andy and
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 5: pull him from the stick, But Raggedy Andy did not
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 5: even wiggle as mister Minky pulled him up on the log.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 5: Now for a large stone, Minky cried and, leaving Raggedy
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 5: Andy laying across the log, Minky ran ashore and came
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  Speaker 5: back carrying a large stone and a piece of string.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 5: But just as mister Minky ran out to where Raggedy
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 5: Andy lay across the log, Minky's feet flew out from
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 5: under him, and with a cray and a splash, he
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 5: fell into the looking glass brook. Ha ha ha, laughed
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 5: Raggedy Andy as he got to his feet, and was
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 5: careful not to step up on the soap sudsy place
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 5: on the log. That's the time you got forward, mister Minki,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 5: for I moved back over the slippery place on the
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 5: log when your back was turned, and you came running
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 5: right out upon the soap SuDS. It took Raggedy Andy
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 5: only a moment to pull Raggedy Ann ashore, and then
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 5: by putting sand upon the log where the soap SuDS
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 5: had been, the two rag dolls crossed the log in safety.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 5: Shall we pull Minky out of the water, Raggedy Andy asked,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 5: as the two rag dolls looked back and saw the
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 5: naughty little fellow kicking him out. Raggedy Ann nodded her head,
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  Speaker 5: and Andy soon reached mister Minky with the long stick
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 5: and pulled him ashore. You just wait until I catch
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 5: you the next time. Minky shook his fists and shouted
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 5: as he ran through the weeds. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy
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  Speaker 5: Andy laughed softly to themselves and followed the wet trail
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 5: Minky left on the ground. I'm glad that we can
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  Speaker 5: make our troubles lighter by laughing at them, smiled Raggedy Ann.
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  Speaker 5: End of chapter thirteen.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 8: Chapter fourteen of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a
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  Speaker 8: Read by DJ Whitney. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Grewell,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 8: Chapter fourteen, Where in the world are you Raggedy's going?
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 8: Winnie would chuck asked as she stepped out in the
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 8: path in front of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Then,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 8: seeing that the two were soaking wet, Whinny would Chuck
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 8: shook her head. My my Land's sake. Raggedy Ann and
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy, your clothes are soaking wet. You must come
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 8: right home with me and let me get you dry ones.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 8: Walter Woodchuck was sitting upon the front steps smoking a
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 8: pipe full of mullen leaves, for someone had told him
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 8: mullen leaves were good for hug titus, whatever that may be.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 8: Oh goody, Walter cried as he knocked the ashes from
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 8: his pipe. I was just wishing when he would bring
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 8: someone home with her. We haven't had visitors for almost
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 8: two hours. Come right in, Winny wood Chuck hurried and
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 8: got some nice dry clothes for Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 8: And Walter Woodchuck made a fire in the fireplace so
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 8: the Raggedys could get their feet dry. You know, both
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy's shoes were just sewn upon
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 8: their feet, and there was no way of taking off
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 8: their shoes without spoiling them. The little fire of birch
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 8: bark sputtered and crackled merrily, and in a few minutes
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 8: the raggedys were just as nice and dry as could be. Now,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 8: we will have some liquor shroot tea, Whinnie Woodchuck said,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 8: as she brought in a tray of teacups and Woodchuck cookies,
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  Speaker 8: for I know how hungry you must be after falling
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 8: in the brook. So Winnie and Walter Woodchuck and Raggedy
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 8: Ann and Raggedy Andy sat in front of the little
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 8: crackling fire and drank the liqoric root tea. And it
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  Speaker 8: was ever so nice and did not make the cotton
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 8: stuffing of the raggedies the least bit damp because it
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 8: was made so nicely. And while they sat drinking the
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 8: nice liquoric root tea, the door opened and without even
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 8: knocking the teeny weeniest knock in walked Minky. I guess
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 8: I'll just have a cup of that lickory shroot tea,
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 8: he said. Now everyone knows that Woodchucks are very friendly
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 8: little folk. When they find anyone in trouble, they are
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 8: always ready to help them. But when Minky came stomping
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  Speaker 8: into their nice, clean woodchuck living room with his muddy
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 8: feet and without knocking. Winnie Woodchuck did not like it. Now,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 8: you just march right out, mister Minky, She said, you
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 8: are very rude.
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  Speaker 4: Ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 8: You better be very careful how you call me rude,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 8: Winnie Woodchuck. Minky said, I spect you don't know that
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  Speaker 8: I have a very magical wishing pebble and I can
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  Speaker 8: work magic on you. The wishing pebble doesn't work for
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 8: him at all, Raggedy Andy told Winnie and Walter Woodchuck.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 8: And the reason it doesn't work magic for him is
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 8: because he always tries to do selfish things. Just you
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 8: wait until I catch you alone, Raggedy Andy Minky shouted,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 8: much louder than was necessary. Just you wait, that's what well,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 8: Winny Woodchuck said, as she ran into the kitchen and
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 8: came back with her broom. Magic wishing pebble or not.
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  Speaker 8: You cannot stay here and spoil our nice little party,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 8: mister Minky. And she patty whacked the mean little fellow
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  Speaker 8: so hard with the broom he was glad to dash
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 8: out of the door. Now then, just for that, I
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 8: shall change you all into monkeys with my wishing pebble,
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 8: Minky cried as he shook his fist in the door,
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 8: and I spect, I shall wrestle you and take the
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 8: wishing pebble away from you, Raggedy Andy said, as he
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 8: ran toward Minky. My how they tussled this way and that.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 8: First Minky tried to put his foot behind Raggedy Andy
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 8: and trip him. Then Raggedy Andy tried to put his
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 8: foot behind Minky and trip him, but neither one could
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 8: throw the other. Finally, Minky grew very angry, and catching
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 8: hold of Raggedy Andy's pretty collar, he tore it from
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy's nice striped shirt. Anyway, even if you did
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 8: tear my nice pretty shirt, I shall not tear your coat,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy said, for it is wrong to destroy anything.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 8: But I shall wrestle you much harder now. And sure
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 8: enough Raggedy Andy did. He just wrastled twice as hard,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 8: and the first thing Minky knew he had tumbled up
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 8: on his back and Raggedy Andy was on top. Ah Ah,
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  Speaker 8: mister Minky, now will you be good? Walter Woodchuck cried
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 8: as he danced about Minky and Raggedy Andy. Now take
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 8: the magical wishing pebble away from him, Raggedy Andy. Oh no,
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann cried. It would be wrong for Raggedy Andy
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 8: to take the wishing pebble from Minky. That would break
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 8: all the magic of the pebble. And besides, it is
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 8: wrong to do anything like that. Then I shan't take
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 8: away the wishing pebble, Raggedy Andy said, as he got
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 8: to his feet and helped Minky get up. Ha, I
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 8: guess you won't take it away from me, Minky said,
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 8: it is home, and before Raggedy Andy could jump to
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 8: one side, Minky gave him a push and sent Raggedy
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 8: Andy flying head over heels. Then Minky ran home as
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  Speaker 8: fast as he could scamper, laughing as if he had
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 8: played a good choke on Raggedy Andy. Don't you care,
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  Speaker 8: Walter and Winnie Woodchuck said, as they helped Raggedy Andy
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 8: stand up and brush the leaves from his clothes. Minky
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 8: is a very, very very rude little fellow, and someday
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 8: I'll bet he will be sorry. Winnie Woodchuck got out
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 8: her sewing box and in a few minutes she sewed
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy's collar on his pretty striped shirt just as
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 8: good as new. I suspect, if you only had that
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 8: wonderful wishing pebble, you would make some nice wishes. Why,
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 8: Woodchuck said to Raggedy Ann, you bet she would Winny Woodchuck.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy answered, when Raggedy Ann had the wishing pebble before,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 8: she wished for the nicest things in the muskrat house.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 8: But she lost the pebble, and as soon as mister
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 8: Minky got it, he wished for the ice cream soda
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 8: water fountain and the patch of lollipops to disappear. So
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 8: now the kinly Muskrats have no soda fountain in their
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 8: front room. Hm, Walter Woodchuck mused as he rubbed his chin.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 8: I spect I'll be back in a few minutes. Raggedy
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 8: Ann and Raggedy Andy, he said, please excuse me, Yes, indeed,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 8: the Raggedy said, as Walter Woodchuck went out the door,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 8: I spec maybe speaking of ice cream sodas made Walter
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 8: Woodchuck hungry for candy. When he Woodchuck chuckled, maybe he
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 8: has gone to the store to buy some candy. So
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 8: she got out a roly Poly game and she and
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 8: the Raggedy sat on the floor in front of the
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 8: crackling fire and played with the game while they waited
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 8: for Walter Woodchuck to return. End of chapter fourteen. Chapter
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 8: fifteen of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is the LibriVox recording.
• 1:45:25
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• 1:45:35
  Speaker 8: by DJ Whitney. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruel,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 8: Chapter fifteen. As soon as Walter Woodchuck got outside his
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 8: front door, he winked both little brown eyes at a
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 8: tree and said to himself, if old mister Minky was
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 8: mean enough to get the nice magical wishing pebble and
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 8: wish all the nice things to disappear from the kind
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 8: muskrat home after raggedy Ann had given things to them,
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  Speaker 8: I believe someone should borrow the magical wishing pebble from
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 8: selfish old mister Minky. And Walter Woodchuck winked again at
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  Speaker 8: another tree and smiled to himself, So I shall just
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 8: walk over to mister Minky's house and borrow the wishing
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 8: pebble from him, and he chuckled his soft Woodchuck chuckle.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 8: As he walked along, Walter Woodchuck knew just where old
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 8: mister Minky lived, and in a few minutes he was
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 8: knocking at the door. Host knocking at my door. Minky
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 8: shouted in a growly voice. It's Walter Woodchuck and I've
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 8: come to see you. Walter Woodchuck replied, Then you can
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 8: run right smack dab back home. Minky shouted. I shall
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 8: not let you in. Then you come out, Walter said,
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  Speaker 8: I shan't do it, mister Minky said, and if you
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 8: don't run home right away, you'll be sorry. That's what hah,
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  Speaker 8: what will you do? Just tell me that, mister Minky,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 8: What will you do, Walter Woodchuck asked. Minky did not reply,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 8: and he was so quiet. Walter thought, surely, mister Minky
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 8: must have gone to sleep. But the first thing he knew,
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 8: he was lifted clear off his feet and jerked up
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 8: in the air. Ha, that's the time I fooled you,
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 8: Walter Woodchuck. Minky shouted as he pulled and pulled on
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 8: the rope until Walter Woodchuck was almost as high as
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 8: the roof of Minky's house. Now I shall fasten the
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 8: end of this rope to the chimney and you can
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 8: just hang there. So the mean creature tied the end
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 8: of the rope to the chimney and left poor Walter
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 8: Woodchuck hanging against the side of the house. Walter Woodchuck
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 8: wiggled and twisted and kicked this way and that, but
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 8: he could not get loose. Minky had fastened a hook
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 8: in the end of the rope and had caught the
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 8: hook on Walter Woodchuck's suspenders and back, and of course
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 8: Walter could not reach around there and unfasten it. I
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 8: wonder what Winnie Woodchuck will think when I do not return,
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 8: Walter Woodchuck thought to himself. While Walter was wondering this,
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 8: Winnie Woodchuck was wondering why Walter did not return from
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 8: the store with the candies. She thought he'd gone for.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 8: Maybe Walter Woodchuck stopped to visit with someone along the way,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann suggested, when Winnie spoke of it, Oh no,
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  Speaker 8: Winnie Woodchuck replied, Walter always hurries right home from the store.
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  Speaker 8: I spect I'll run down the path and medium. So
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 8: Winny Woodchuck went down the path, and pretty soon she
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 8: met Wallace Woodpecker. Wallace Woodpecker was the mail carrier in
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  Speaker 8: the Deep Deep Woods and knew all the news. Have
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 8: you seen Walton Woodchuck. When he asked, yes, Sir, Wallace
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 8: Woodpecker replied, he's down at mister Minky's house. At least
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 8: he was going that way when I saw him. But
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell you one thing, Winnie, if I were you,
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't let Walter Woodchuck go to see mister Minky
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  Speaker 8: very often, because mister Minky is a disagreeable creature. Indeed
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 8: he is. When he agreed, then she thanked Wallace Woodpecker
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  Speaker 8: and ran down to mister Minky's house. And when she
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  Speaker 8: saw Walter hanging by a suspender on the hook at
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 8: the end of the rope, Winnie was very angry. She
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 8: knew in a moment that Minky had played a trick
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 8: on Walter. So she went and thumped upon Minky's door,
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  Speaker 8: tump tump, tump, like that, Only a great deal louder
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 8: can anne. Minky called through the door. So Winnie Woodchuck
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  Speaker 8: walked into Minky's house, intending to give mister Minky a
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  Speaker 8: great piece of her mind. But she had hardly opened
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  Speaker 8: the door before Minky caught her and had her tied
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  Speaker 8: to a chair. Now, I spect you won't say much,
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  Speaker 8: he said. Then, when he saw Winnie Woodchuck did intend
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  Speaker 8: on saying a great deal, he stuffed a large hanky
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  Speaker 8: in her mouth so she couldn't talk.
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha.
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  Speaker 8: Minky said, pretty soon, I'll bet a nickel Raggedy Ann
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  Speaker 8: and Raggedy Andy will come to hunt you, and I
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  Speaker 8: shall capture them as easy as I did you and Walter.
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  Speaker 8: End of chapter fifteen. Chapter sixteen of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 8: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 8: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 8: visit LibriVox dot org. Read by DJ Whitney. Raggedy Ann's
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 8: Wishing Pebble by Johnny Grewell. Chapter sixteen, Raggedy Ann and
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy sat upon the floor of the Woodchuck home
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  Speaker 8: and played with the roly Poly game for a long time.
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  Speaker 8: First Ann won the game and Raggedy Andy won the game.
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  Speaker 8: Isn't it time? Whinnie Woodchuck returned. Raggedy Ann asked, maybe
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  Speaker 8: we had better go and see what can be keeping
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  Speaker 8: the Woodchuck so long, Raggedy Andy replied, maybe they've caught
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  Speaker 8: their feet in a trap. Oh no, Raggedy Andy. Raggedy
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  Speaker 8: Ann said, there are no traps in this deep deep woods.
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  Speaker 8: I am certain there are too many cunning little gnomes
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  Speaker 8: and elves and fairies living here. And you know, she added,
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  Speaker 8: they watch out for the other little woodland creatures. So
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  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann put away the roly poly game and she
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  Speaker 8: and Raggedy Andy ran down the path through the woods
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  Speaker 8: until they came to Minkey's home. There they saw Walter
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  Speaker 8: Woodchuck hanging way up in the air near the house top. Aha.
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  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann said, I'll bet Minky did that. Let us
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  Speaker 8: ask Walter Woodchuck. Yes, it was Minkie, Walter Woodchuck said
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  Speaker 8: when Raggedy Andy asked him, who had pulled him up there,
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  Speaker 8: and Walter said, Whenny Woodchuck came to rescue me. And
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  Speaker 8: I am certain the Minky has captured her, for she
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  Speaker 8: hasn't come out of the house, and I'm sure she
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  Speaker 8: went in the side door. Dear me, Raggedy Ann said,
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  Speaker 8: what shall we do, Raggedy Andy. Raggedy Andy took off
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  Speaker 8: his cap and scratched his head with a little stick,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 8: but he could not think of anything to do unless
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  Speaker 8: I go inside and rastle Minky. He finally said, yes,
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  Speaker 8: and have him capture you too. Indeed, you shall not
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 8: go inside Minky's house until we find out just what
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 8: he has done with poor Winny Woodchuck. So the Raggedys
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 8: slipped up to one of Minky's windows and peeped inside.
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  Speaker 8: There they saw a poor Winny Woodchuck tied fast to
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 8: a chair, and she wiggled and twisted trying to get loose.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 8: We must plan some way to rescue Walter Woodchuck first,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann said, Then we will plan a way to
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 8: rescue Winny Woodchuck. Next, I'll tell you what let's do,
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  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy said. I'll pretend that I'm returning to the
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  Speaker 8: Woodchuck house, and you can pretend that you were going
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  Speaker 8: inside Minky's house. Then I will run around to Minky's
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  Speaker 8: back door while you talk to Minky at the front door.
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  Speaker 8: If I could run inside, I will untie Winny Woodchuck,
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  Speaker 8: and then we will run out. So Raggedy Ann and
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  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy did just as Raggedy Andy had suggested, and
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 8: when Raggedy Ann came walking up to his door, Minky
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  Speaker 8: said to himself, Ha, goody, here comes Raggedy Ann all
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  Speaker 8: by yourself. Now I can capture her and take her
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  Speaker 8: candy heart. Then I'm sure my magic wishing pebble will work.
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  Speaker 8: And he waited for Raggedy Ann to knock upon the door.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann thought to herself, maybe Minky is hiding right
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  Speaker 8: behind the door, just waiting for me. So she knocked
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  Speaker 8: upon the door and then had to smile to herself
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  Speaker 8: for as soon as she knocked, Minky said, come in,
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  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann. And Raggedy Ann knew Minky had been watching
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  Speaker 8: her all the time. I spect I shall not come
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  Speaker 8: in today, mister Minky. Raggedy Ann replied, you must open
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  Speaker 8: the door. I wish to talk with you. So Minky
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  Speaker 8: opened the door and poked his long nose out. What
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  Speaker 8: do you wish to say, Raggedy Ann, he asked, Hum,
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  Speaker 8: let's see. Raggedy Ann mused, oh yes, I remember now,
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  Speaker 8: mister Minkie. I want to ask you something. Did you
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  Speaker 8: ever hear of slap Winkie's?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 8: What a silly thing? Minkie said, of course not. What
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 8: are slap winkies, Raggedy Ann. Why, Raggedy Ann replied, as
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  Speaker 8: if greatly surprised. If you would only come out here
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  Speaker 8: and look in the grass, you might see a slap winkie.
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  Speaker 8: Who knows if you're trying to fool me, Raggedy Ann,
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  Speaker 8: you'll be mighty sorry, Minkie said, as he opened the
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 8: door and stepped out. I should like very much to
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  Speaker 8: see one, though, and he closed the door behind him.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 8: Then Raggedy Ann began singing a song just as loud
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 8: as she could, for she knew by this time, Raggedy Ann,
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 8: he must be inside Minkie's house, and she did not
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 8: wish Minky to hear Raggedy Andy. And while Minky was
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 8: looking in the grass, Raggedy Andy had quietly sneaked into
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 8: the house untied Winny Woodchuck, and the two had slipped
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 8: out the back door again and over into the bushes
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 8: where they were hidden. Then Raggedy Andy told Winny Woodchuck,
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 8: now you stay hidden here in the bushes, Winny, and
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 8: I will run up the path toward Minky and he
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 8: will never know but that I had just come from
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 8: your house. You must keep very quiet, though, and not
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 8: let Minky, see you, so, Raggedy Andy ran away and
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 8: then came running up the path to where Minky and
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann were looking for slap winkies in the grass.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 8: Now what are you looking for, mister Minky, Raggedy Andy asked,
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 8: very politely, I am looking for slap winkies. Minky gruffly replied, hm.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy said, I ever heard of slap winkie's. Then
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 8: I'll bet Raggedy Ann was fooling me. Minky howled as
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 8: he jumped to his feet. I spect I will capture
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann and take her candy heart. Then my wishing
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 8: pebble will work nicely, and he started as if he
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 8: would catch Raggedy Ann. But Raggedy Andy said, wait, mister Minky,
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 8: I spect if you would run up to winny Woodchuck's
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 8: house and ask her, she would tell you if she's
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 8: ever seen a slap winky ha. Minky laughed forgetting himself
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 8: whinny Woodchuck isn't at home? So there?
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: Is that so?
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Andy asked why I just left winny Woodchuck not
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 8: two minutes ago. Minky looked queerly at Raggedy Andy and
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 8: then ran into his house and out again. She's escaped,
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 8: he cried, How did she get away when I had
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 8: her tied to a chair. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 8: did not reply, for they did not wish to tell.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 8: But Raggedy Ann said, I spect that Winny Woodchuck escaped,
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 8: just like Walter Woodchuck will escape if you do not
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 8: hurry and let him down yourself.
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  Speaker 9: There must be a lot of magic going on around here,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 9: Minky said, And for fear some of the magic will
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 9: be worked on me before I can get the wishing
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 9: pebble working properly.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 8: I will untie the rope and let Walter down. So
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 8: he ran indoors, up the stairway to the attic, and
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 8: then to the roof, and let Walter down to the ground.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 8: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy and Walter Woodchuck walked away,
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 8: never saying a word in reply to Minky, And when
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 8: they came to Winny Woodchuck, they all caught hold of
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 8: hands and ran toward the Woodchuck home, laughing heartily at
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 8: the way they had played a good trick on old
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 8: mister Minky. End of chapter sixteen.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 5: Chapter seventeen of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 5: library box recording. All Libraryvox recordings are in the public domain.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 5: For more information or to volunteer, please visit libraryvox dot org.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 5: Read by Caroline Spencer. Carriage Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 5: Johnny Gruhle, chapter seventeen. When Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 5: left the Woodchuck home, they walked down the path towards
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 5: Minky's house, for they wished if they could to get
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 5: the fine wishing pebble so that they could make some
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 5: lovely wishers and have the ice cream soda fountain in
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 5: the living room of the muskrat's cheery home. And when
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 5: they reached Minky's home, there was a sign on the
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 5: door which read gone fishing for the day. Let's go
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 5: to where he is fishing. Raggedy Andy said to Raggedy Ann,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 5: that is a good planggedy Ann agreed, as she started
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 5: toward the stream where she knew Minky had gone. When
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 5: they came to the stream, there upon a log sat
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 5: Minky fishing away. For dear life, have you caught anything,
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 5: Raggedy Andy asked, no, Sir, Minky replied, I haven't even
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 5: had a single bite. Just as he said this, Minky's
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 5: pole gave a big jerk, and before he could catch himself,
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 5: the little fellow was pulled from the log and went
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 5: splashing into the water below. Raggedy Ann thought he would
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 5: never come to the top again, for the water was
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 5: so deep. But finally Minky came to the surface and
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 5: he was blowing and puffing to catch his breath. Raggedy
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 5: Andy got a long stick and held it out so
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 5: Minky could catch hold of it. Then Raggedy Andy, with
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 5: Raggedy Ann's aid, pulled until Minky came ashore, all dripping wet.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 5: That settles it, Minky said, when he could get his breath.
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 5: Settles what Raggedy Andy asked, I shall never try to
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 5: capture Raggedy Ann. Minky said, I know now that both
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 5: of you Raggedy's are nice, kind folks, and it was
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 5: very wrong of me to take Raggedy Ann's lovely wishing
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 5: pebble and make the ice cream soda water fountain disappear
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 5: from the home of the Muskrats. Raggedy Ann looked from
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 5: Minky to Raggedy Andy and smiled. It pleased her to
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 5: think that Minky had changed from a mean little creature
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 5: to a good little creature, and raggedy Ann's shoe button
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 5: eyes wiggled with happiness. Yes, sir, Raggedy Andy, Minky said,
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 5: I am so very, very, very very But Minky could
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 5: say no more, for his eyes filled with tears again,
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 5: and he began crying loudly. Raggedy Ann wiped the tears
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 5: from Minky's eyes, and when he had stopped weeping, she said,
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 5: do not feel so sad, mister Minky, if you will
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 5: get the magical wishing pebble, I am certain in a
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 5: few moments, we can wish for the nice ice cream
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 5: soda water fountain to return to the muskrat's home, and
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 5: we can make them a lollipop garden and wish a
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 5: whole lot of nice things for them. Then we can
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 5: go down to their house, and I am sure they
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 5: will be glad to have you share in their pleasures.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 5: Oh do you really believe they would do that after
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 5: the mean trick I played on them? Minky asked, then
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  Speaker 5: when Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy told him yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 5: Minky said, then I shall run right home and get
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  Speaker 5: the wishing pebble, for I have it in a teacup
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  Speaker 5: up on the top shelf in my cupboard. I will
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  Speaker 5: be right back and I shall give it to you
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  Speaker 5: and let you make the nice wishers. So Raggedy Ann
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  Speaker 5: and Raggedy Andy sat down on a little log and
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  Speaker 5: twiggled their thumbs and waited for Minky to return with
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  Speaker 5: the wishing pebble. When they had waited a long long time,
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  Speaker 5: Raggedy Andy said, I wonder why Mink he doesn't return
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  Speaker 5: with the wishing pebble. Maybe he has gone to sleep.
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  Speaker 5: Raggedy Ann said in reply, let us walk to Minky's
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  Speaker 5: house and see. So the two dolls caught hold of
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  Speaker 5: hands and went trippity trip down the path to Minky's house.
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  Speaker 5: The front door stood wide open, and after knocking, Raggedy
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  Speaker 5: Ann and Raggedy Andy went inside. There they found the
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  Speaker 5: furniture all turned topsy turvy and the back door standing
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  Speaker 5: wide open. Many dishes were broken and lay scattered about
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  Speaker 5: the floor. I suspect something has been going on here,
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  Speaker 5: like a fight or a scuffle, Raggedy Andy said, See
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 5: how the chairs are topsy turvy and everything broken. Raggedy
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 5: Ann agreed, with Raggedy Andy. Yes, she said, Minky has
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 5: had a fight with some one shore pop, and Minky
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 5: has chased whoever it was, right out of the back door.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 5: Raggedy Andy called from the back porch, Let's follow down
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 5: through the woods. We can follow their tracks through the
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 5: grass where they have trod it down. So, with Raggedy
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  Speaker 5: Andy in the lead, the two rag dolls ran as
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 5: fast as they could in the direction the trail led.
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  Speaker 5: In a few minutes, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy saw
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 5: Minky comeing towards them, and he was crying as hard
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 5: as he could. Why Minky, Raggedy Ann exclaimed, whatever in
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 5: the world has happened? Your clothes are torn and all muddy.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 5: So Minky sat down on a stone and wiped the
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 5: tears from his eyes. Then he looked sadly from Raggedy
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 5: Ann to Raggedy Andy and said, the magical wishing pebble
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 5: is gone, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, and we shall
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  Speaker 5: never get it again to make nice wishes with Why Minky,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 5: Raggedy Andy said, who has it? Bertram Bear? Minky replied,
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  Speaker 5: when I left you, I ran home just as fast
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  Speaker 5: as I could, for I wanted Raggedy Ann to have
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 5: her wishing pebble as soon as I could get it.
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 5: But when I was running up the path near my house,
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 5: I saw Bertram Bear come dashing out of the bushes
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 5: and go running right into my front door. Hey, Bertram Bear,
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 5: I shouted, don't go into my house. But into the
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 5: house he went just the same, and of course I followed.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 5: And what do you think, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy,
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 5: there was Bertram Bear climbing up on a chair after
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 5: the cup which held the wishing pebble. I knew then
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 5: that Bertram Bear had listened to us talking back there
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 5: in the woods, and that he intended having the wishing pebble.
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 5: So just as Bertram Bear jumped from the chair, I
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 5: caught him and tried to take the wishing pebble away
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 5: from him. We tussled this way and that, and upset
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 5: all the furniture and all the dishes. But Bertram Bear
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 5: finally pushed me over a chair, and when I got
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 5: to my feet, the mean creature was running out of
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 5: the back door, and he has the wishing pebble in
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 5: his pocket. I saw him put it there. Dear me,
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 5: was all Raggedy Andy could think of to say, but
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 5: Raggedy Ann said, well, never mind, mister Minki, you run
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 5: home and change your clothing and wash the mud from
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 5: your face. Raggedy Andy and I will go to Bertram
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  Speaker 5: Bear's house and tell his mama how naughty he has been,
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  Speaker 5: and you can follow us there. I suspect Bertram Bear's
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 5: mama will make him return the Wishing Pebble mighty quick.
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 5: So Minky went sadly home, while Raggedy Ann and Raggedy
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  Speaker 5: Andy went toward the home of Bertram Bear. End of
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  Speaker 5: chapter seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter eighteen of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a
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  Speaker 3: Read by Nan Dodge. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Grewell,
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  Speaker 3: Chapter eighteen. The Bears lived high up on a hill
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  Speaker 3: in the deep deep woods, where the ground was very
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  Speaker 3: stony and there were great boulders as large as chicken coops.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 3: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy had never been there, but
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 3: they could follow Bertram Bear's trail through the grass until
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 3: they came to the stony ground, and from there they
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 3: could see the home of the Bears. So Raggedy Ann
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  Speaker 3: and Raggedy Andy followed the path up the hill, in
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 3: and around the large bowlders until they came to the
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  Speaker 3: home of Missus Bolliver Bear, and they knocked upon the
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  Speaker 3: door with their cotton stuffed hands. Thump, thump, thump. Missus
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 3: Bolliver Bear came to the door. Why, she cried, it's
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 3: two rag dolls and they are alive. May we come in,
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 3: Missus Bolliver Bear, Raggedy Ann asked, certainly, Missus Bolliver Bear
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 3: replied as she held the door open, But she wondered
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 3: what two little rag dolls could be doing way up
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  Speaker 3: at her house. We were just having some nice ice
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 3: cream soda water, Missus Bolliver Bear said, as she led
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  Speaker 3: the way into the dining room to where Daddy Bolliver
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  Speaker 3: Bear and Bertram Bear sat near a sizzling soda water fountain.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 3: Missus Bolliver Bear brought Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy each
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 3: a glass of ice cream soda water and told them
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  Speaker 3: to sit down. Bertram just made the soda fountain with
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 3: a magical charm he found. Missus Bolliver Bear said, of course,
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 3: Bertram Bear knew right away that Raggedy Ann and Andy
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 3: had come for the wishing pebble, for he had heard
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 3: them talking about it with Minky and knew that the
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 3: wishing pebble really belonged to Raggedy Ann. So he thought,
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  Speaker 3: I must think of some way to fool Raggedy Ann
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  Speaker 3: and Raggedy Andy so that they cannot tell my nice mom,
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 3: what are you two rag Doll's doing way up here
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 3: amongst the rocks, he asked Raggedy Ann. Raggedy Ann tried
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 3: to speak, but she could not say one word.
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 3: How funny? She thought, I can think just as well
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  Speaker 3: as ever, but I can't talk even a smidge. Then
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 3: Bertram Bear turned to Raggedy Andy and said, didn't you
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 3: get tired climbing up this high? And Raggedy Andy tried
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  Speaker 3: to answer Bertram Bear, but like Raggedy Ann, he could
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 3: not speak one word. They could talk very well a
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 3: while ago. Missus Boliver Bear said something must have happened
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  Speaker 3: to their clockwork insides. She did not know that Raggedy
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  Speaker 3: Ann and Raggedy Andy were just stuffed with nice white cotton,
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  Speaker 3: and their bodies had no clockwork. I spect I will
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  Speaker 3: take Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy out to the work
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  Speaker 3: shed and fixed their clockwork. Bertram Bear said, maybe it
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  Speaker 3: just needs some oil. But to Hi, he said, I
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  Speaker 3: will take the Raggedyes out and throw them as far
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  Speaker 3: as I can from the highest rock, so that they
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  Speaker 3: will not come back again. So Bertram Bear picked up
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  Speaker 3: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy and carried them out of
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  Speaker 3: the house, and neither of the Raggedys could say even
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  Speaker 3: one word. When he had gone far enough from the house,
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 3: so is Mamma and Daddy could not hear him. He said,
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  Speaker 3: now I shall tell you just what I intend doing
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  Speaker 3: with you. I shall throw you both away, and when
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 3: you hit upon the ground way down below, you must
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 3: run home as fast as you can, or the next
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 3: time I will treat you far worse. And when the
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 3: Raggedys did not reply, Bertram Bear said, Daddy cannot hear
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 3: you from here. And of course then the Raggedys could talk,
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 3: and Raggedy Ann said, you should feel so ashamed of yourself,
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  Speaker 3: Bertram Bear, you told your nice mamma and Daddy the
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  Speaker 3: biggest fib at the magical wishing pebble, and I am
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  Speaker 3: sure the wishing pebble will not work for you when
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 3: you tell fibbs or do anything wrong.
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  Speaker 7: Ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 3: Bertram Bear laughed, don't you believe it, Raggedy Ann. Didn't
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  Speaker 3: you see how my mamma and daddy liked the nice
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 3: soda water. Now I shall throw you from this high stone,
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 3: and you had better never come back. And the mean
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 3: bear swung the raggedyes around his head and threw them
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 3: just as far as he could. Bertram Bear turned and
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 3: walked back into the house, but the Raggedys just laid
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  Speaker 3: where they had fallen, not that the fall had hurt
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  Speaker 3: them at all, but because they were lying side by
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 3: side and wanted to think just what to do? Isn't
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  Speaker 3: he a mean bear? Raggedy Andy said, how nice it
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 3: is that all creatures are not like Bertram Bear. Oh,
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 3: Raggedy Ann said, as she sat up and smoothed out
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  Speaker 3: her yarn hair. We will let Bertram Bear keep the
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 3: magical wishing pebble, for it will not be magical very long.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 3: The two Raggedys caught hold of hands and walked down
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 3: the hill the way they had come and talked of
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 3: the wishing pebble as they went along. Then when they
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 3: came to a bend in the path, there sat Freddy
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 3: Fox upon a log, and he was all out of
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 3: breath from running. Why have you been running, Freddy Fox,
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 3: Raggedy Ann asked as she came up to him. Freddy
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  Speaker 3: Fox squinted his eyes until they were just tiny slits
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  Speaker 3: and smiled. Oh, he said, Sometimes I just like to
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 3: run and run and run, Raggedy Ann. But in his
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 3: mind Freddy Fox was thinking, I must find out from
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 3: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy all I can about this
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 3: wonderful wishing pebble I heard them talking of back there. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 3: Freddy Fox went on. I run and run and run
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 3: to keep in practice so if anything chases me, I
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 3: can get away. But I wish I had a fine
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 3: wishing stick or a magic ring, so that I could
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 3: make nice wishes and never have anything chase me. It
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 3: would be nice if you had one, Raggedy Ann said,
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  Speaker 3: once I found a wishing pebble, and she told Freddy
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 3: Fox all about Minky and how now Bertram Bear had it,
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  Speaker 3: but she did not tell how they were not able
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  Speaker 3: to work magic with it. After they had it a while,
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 3: so Freddy Fox said, well, I guess I shall never
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  Speaker 3: own one, so it is no use wishing for one.
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  Speaker 3: And with that he bounced up and dashed away through
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  Speaker 3: the woods. Isn't he a strange creature? Raggedy Ann said,
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  Speaker 3: he did not look into our eyes when he talked
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 3: to us, And you can never trust any one who
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 3: cannot look into your eyes when they speak to you.
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  Speaker 3: End of chapter eighteen Chapter nineteen of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 3: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 3: visit LibriVox dot org. Read by Nan Dodge. Raggedy Ann's
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 3: Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruell, Chapter nineteen. Raggedy Ann and
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 3: Raggedy Andy are such silly things, Freddy Fox said to
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 3: himself as he left the two and ran away through
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 3: the woods. But then, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy are
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 3: only two old rag dolls, and their heads are just
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 3: stuffed with cotton. No one could expect them to be
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 3: as smart and cunning as I am. And Freddy Fox
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 3: made a turn in the woods and circled until he
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 3: was headed up the hill toward the home of Bertram Bayer.
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 3: Burt Trom Bear is a silly thing, too, Freddie Fox thought,
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 3: And it will be very easy for me to fool
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 3: him and get the magical wishing pebble away from him.
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  Speaker 3: Then I shall wish for everything I can think of,
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 3: and I will not give any one a single thing. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I shall easily fool Bertram Bear, just as easily as
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 3: I fooled the Raggedies. And up he went and called
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 3: outside Bertram's house, Oh, Bertram Bear, Oh, Bertram Bear, come out.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 3: So Bertram Bear came out when he heard Freddie Fox,
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 3: for often they had lots of fun together. Though Freddie
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 3: Fox always teased Bertram Bear a great deal, Freddie Fox
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 3: was too sly to mention the magical wishing pebble, for
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 3: he did not care to have Bertram Behar know that
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 3: he knew Bertram had it. So he said, I have
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 3: found something I wished to show you. Bertram Behar, come
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 3: down to my house and see it. So Bertram Behar
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 3: to himself, Freddie Fox does not know that I have
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 3: a wonderful wishing pebble, and I will look at his find,
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 3: then I shall wish for it to be in my
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 3: house after I see if it is any good, my
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 3: won't Freddie Fox be surprised when he discovers it has disappeared,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 3: And Bertram Bear chuckled to himself to think how he
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 3: would fool Freddie Fox. And while Bertram Behar was thinking
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 3: how he would fool Freddie Fox, Freddie Fox was thinking
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 3: how he intended fooling Bertram Bear. The Raggedies had told
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 3: Freddie Fox that the magical wishing pebble was very white,
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 3: so Freddie Fox had picked up a white pebble just
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 3: the size of the real wishing pebble, and he thought
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 3: he could easily exchange it for Bertram Bear's wishing pebble
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 3: when Bertram wasn't watching, And so Freddie Fox and Bertram
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 3: Behar walked along through the woods toward the home of
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 3: Freddie Fox. By this time, Minkie had decided he would
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 3: run up to Bertram Bear's house and tell Bertram Behar's
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 3: nice mamma how Bertram had taken the wishing pebble. So
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 3: Minki walked up the path just a moment or two
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 3: after Bertram Bear and Freddie Fox had walked down the path,
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 3: and Minkie had gone but a short distance. When lying
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 3: right in the center of the path, he saw a
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 3: white pebble. Can this be the magical wishing pebble? Minki wondered,
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 3: I will just make a wish and see if it
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 3: really is. So he held the pebble in his right
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 3: hand and closed his eyes and wished, I wish that
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 3: I was with Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, he whispered
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 3: to himself. Then he opened his eyes and was so
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 3: surprised to find himself standing right in front of Raggedy
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 3: Ann and Raggedy Andy. Why, mister Minkie, where did you
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 3: come from? Raggedy Ann asked, as she told Minky how
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 3: Bertram Bear had treated Raggedy Andy Anne herself. Do you
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 3: think Bertram Bear could have lost the real, for sure
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 3: magical wishing pebble, Raggedy Ann. Minky asked, There may be
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 3: more than one wishing pebble. Raggedy Ann replied, we could
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 3: wish to find out whether Bertram Bear lost it. Raggedy
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 3: Andy suggested, so Minky wished that he and Raggedy Ann
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 3: and Raggedy Andy would know just how bertram might have
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 3: lost the wonderful wishing pebble. And as soon as Minky
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 3: made the wish, the three friends laughed, for they saw
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 3: right away that the wishing pebble had dropped through a
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 3: little hole in Bertram Bear's pocket, and now it is
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 3: yours again Minky. Raggedy Ann said, Oh no, Minky replied,
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 3: the wishing pebble is really yours, raggedy Ann, and I
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 3: am so glad that I can return it to you.
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 3: I am so sorry that I was so stingy when
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 3: I had it before. So you take it and make
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 3: a lot of nice, lovely wishes with it. And Minki
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 3: handed the magical wishing pebble to raggedy Ann. Thank you,
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 3: mister Minky. Raggedy Ann said, I know that now you
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 3: will find a lot more happiness in the deep deep woods,
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 3: because you have changed from a mean little fellow into
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 3: a nice little fellow. So she and Raggedy Andy shook
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 3: hands with Minky and watched him as he walked sadly away.
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 3: But there was a twinkle in raggedy Ann's shoe button eyes,
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 3: and she said to Raggedy Andy, I spec mister Minky
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 3: will be shouting with joy when he walks into his home.
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 3: What makes you spec that, Raggedy Ann. Raggedy Andy wished
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 3: to know, cause, Raggedy Ann replied, I have already wished
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 3: that there will be a nice ice cream soda water
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 3: fountain in Minky's living room, and right at the side
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 3: of his kitchen porch, that there would be a nice
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 3: lollipop garden. So now Minky can find out just how
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 3: much fun it will be having his friend help him
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 3: enjoy the nice things he has. And after the two
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 3: friends had walked along in silence for a few minutes,
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 3: Raggedy Ann laughed and said, there you see, Raggedy Andy.
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 3: See what Raggedy Andy asked, in surprise. Why Raggedy Ann chuckled,
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 3: I just wished that I would know what you were wishing.
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 3: And when I found out that you were wishing the
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 3: muskrats would also have a lollipop garden and another ice
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 3: cream soda water fountain, I wished for it with the
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 3: wishing pebble. And I'll bet by this time the muskrats
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 3: are all calling in their friends to share in their pleasures.
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 3: Then let's run down and see if the wishes came true.
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  Speaker 3: Raggedy Ann, Raggedy Andy cried as he caught raggedy Ann's
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  Speaker 3: hand and ran with her down the path through the woods.
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  Speaker 10: End of chapter nine, Chapter twenty of raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble.
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  Speaker 10: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 10: Wishing Pebble by Johnny Grewell, Chapter twenty. At the Muskrat
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  Speaker 10: Home by the side of the looking Glass Brook, there
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  Speaker 10: were sounds of merriment, squeals of delight, and happy chattering
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  Speaker 10: and laughter. Mister Muskrat was out upon the bank of
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  Speaker 10: the looking Glass Brook, calling through a horn made of
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  Speaker 10: birch bark. Everyone is invited to the Muskrat holme We
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  Speaker 10: are having a grand party. Hurry and come. And when
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  Speaker 10: the little meadow creatures and the wood folk heard the
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  Speaker 10: cheery invitation, they flew and ran and wiggled toward the
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  Speaker 10: Muskrat home. And when mister Muskrat went around to his
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  Speaker 10: kitchen porch, he saw that the lollipop garden was in
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  Speaker 10: the backyard, and there upon small sticks growing like thousands
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  Speaker 10: of colored dandelions were lovely candy lollipops. So he called
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  Speaker 10: to Freddy field Mouse and Herbert Hedgehog and some of
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  Speaker 10: the other meadow folk, and had them help him pick
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  Speaker 10: enough lollipops for each and every guest. Along the bank
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  Speaker 10: of the looking Glass Brook came Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy,
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  Speaker 10: their little cloth faces wreathed and smiles, happy in their
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  Speaker 10: knowledge that through their wishes they had brought pleasure to
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  Speaker 10: so many kindly little creatures. Hurrah for Raggedy Ann with
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  Speaker 10: the candy heart, everyone cried.
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  Speaker 2: Hurrah for Raggedy Andy too.
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  Speaker 10: Everyone cried as they all ran to meet the Raggedys
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  Speaker 10: and crowded about to hear how they had recovered the
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  Speaker 10: magical wishing pebble. So ragged Giddy Ann and Raggedy Andy
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  Speaker 10: sat down upon the soft yellow grass beside the looking
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  Speaker 10: Glass Brook, and with the happy little creatures of the
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  Speaker 10: great Meadow and the deep deep woods about them, they
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  Speaker 10: related all the difficulties and adventures through which they had passed. Then,
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  Speaker 10: when old mister Sun had slipped down out of sight,
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  Speaker 10: and the blue of the evening had settled, changing the
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  Speaker 10: purple shadows of the deep deep woods into a mysterious blackness.
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  Speaker 10: The little fireflies came flitting up from the tall grasses
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  Speaker 10: and lighted the way for the wood folk and the
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  Speaker 10: little meadow creatures to reach their homes, And the brilliant
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  Speaker 10: stars and the face of the crescent moon were reflected
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  Speaker 10: in the looking glass brook. Raggedy Ann, seeing this, laughed
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  Speaker 10: and said, isn't the reflection of the moon and stars
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  Speaker 10: in the surface of the looking glass Brook, just like
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  Speaker 10: the reflection of happiness we may send out when someone
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  Speaker 10: gives us a moment of happiness. That happiness makes our
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  Speaker 10: hearts sing with joyousness, and we reflect that happiness from
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  Speaker 10: our sunny hearts to someone else, and so in turn
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  Speaker 10: it is reflected to others.
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  Speaker 7: On and on.
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  Speaker 10: Then the Raggedy's and mister and Missus Muskrat went into
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  Speaker 10: the Muskrat home, and in ten minutes all were sound
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  Speaker 10: asleep in their little soft beds, dreaming the dreams which
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  Speaker 10: are always brought to heads filled with happy thoughts. End
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  Speaker 10: of chapter twenty read by Jody Holman. Chapter twenty one
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  Speaker 10: of Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 10: All LibriVox recordings are in the public Domain. For more
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  Speaker 10: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Read
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  Speaker 10: by Jody Holman. Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble by Johnny Gruell,
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  Speaker 10: Chapter twenty one, Bright and early the morning. In fact,
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  Speaker 10: the smiling face of the great mister Sun had just
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  Speaker 10: peeped over the trees in the deep deep woods, again,
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  Speaker 10: painting the great meadow in its morning bath of golden light.
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  Speaker 10: Missus Muskrat hopped out of bed and slipped quietly to
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  Speaker 10: the kitchen, intending to make no noise and awaken the raggedys.
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  Speaker 10: Missus Muskrat knew how to make the loveliest pancakes, all
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  Speaker 10: a golden brown on both sides. She wanted to make
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  Speaker 10: a lot before she called mister Muskrat and Raggedy Ann
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  Speaker 10: and Raggedy Andy. But when Missus Muskrat opened the kitchen door,
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  Speaker 10: she gave a squeal of surprise, for there, sitting upon
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  Speaker 10: a chair by the kitchen door, his face washed nice
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  Speaker 10: and clean, and his shoe button eyes with all the
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  Speaker 10: sleep dust wiped from them, sat Raggedy Andy there beside
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  Speaker 10: the kitchen table, her sleeves rolled up and wearing a
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  Speaker 10: large apron, was Raggedy Ann. Now you just sit down
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  Speaker 10: beside Raggedy Andy. Missus Muskrat laughed up early so I
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  Speaker 10: could make the pancakes. Then, when I had a lot baked,
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  Speaker 10: I meant to call you both. Presently, mister Muskrat came
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  Speaker 10: from his bedroom, and as soon as he had washed
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  Speaker 10: his face, breakfast was ready. What did you do with
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  Speaker 10: the wishing pebble, Raggedy Ann, Mister Muskrat asked, after all
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  Speaker 10: had eaten sixteen pancakes with maple syrup on them? Did
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  Speaker 10: you push it down in the sand again? And he
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  Speaker 10: and all the rest laughed at the recollection of how
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  Speaker 10: they had searched for the lost pebble. Indeed, I didn't,
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  Speaker 10: mister Muskrat, Raggedy Ann replied, as she wiped the syrup
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  Speaker 10: from around Raggedy Andy's mouth with her napkin. I have
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  Speaker 10: it wrapped up carefully in my pocket hanky, and here
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  Speaker 10: it is. She took her hanky with the blue order
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  Speaker 10: from her pocket and showed mister and Missus Muskrat the
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  Speaker 10: wonderful wishing pebble, and the light of the morning sun
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  Speaker 10: shone into the height of the wishing pebble and seemed
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  Speaker 10: to wink cheerily.
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  Speaker 3: Is it in it?
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  Speaker 10: White and smooth and round? Missus Muskrat said, no, wonder,
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  Speaker 10: it is so magical. But Raggedy Ann, you should not
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  Speaker 10: carry such a magical thing in a pocket hanky.
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  Speaker 2: What if you should lose it?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know what else to do with it, Raggedy
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  Speaker 10: Ann replied. If I just put it in my apron pocket,
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  Speaker 10: and that's the only pocket I have, I would be
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  Speaker 10: sure to lose it. But if I keep it wrapped
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  Speaker 10: in my pocket hanky and lose the hanky, it will
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  Speaker 10: be much easier to find. I know, missus Muskrat cried
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  Speaker 10: as she ran into her bedroom and came out with
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  Speaker 10: a sewing basket. I will sniff a little hole in
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  Speaker 10: Raggedy Ann's body. And oh dear no, mister Muskrat cried,
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  Speaker 10: jumping up when Missus Muskrat took out a pair of scissors.
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  Speaker 10: You mustn't hurt Raggedy Ann. Silly, missus Muskrat laughed as
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  Speaker 10: she gave mister Muskrat a playful pinch on his nose.
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  Speaker 10: Don't you know, Raggedy Ann and raggedy and you are
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  Speaker 10: made of cloth, stuffed with nice, clean, white cotton it
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  Speaker 10: doesn't hurt them to be snipped open with a pair
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  Speaker 10: of scissors. Then, when I have made a tiny slit
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  Speaker 10: in raggedy Ann's cloth body, I will poke the magical
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  Speaker 10: wishing pebble way into the soft cotton stuffing and sow
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  Speaker 10: the hole up. Then she cannot ever lose the wishing
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  Speaker 10: pebble unless she gets lost herself. So Missus Muskrat took
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  Speaker 10: off raggedy Ann's apron and dress and snipped a tiny
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  Speaker 10: hole in raggedy Ann's cloth back. Then she poked the
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  Speaker 10: wishing pebble way into the cotton stuffing, and in a
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  Speaker 10: few moments had the hole sewed up. Raggedy Ann kissed
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  Speaker 10: Missus Muskrat and thanked her. Is there any other nice
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  Speaker 10: thing I could wish for you, missus Muskrat, Raggedy Ann asked,
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  Speaker 10: dear me, No, waggedy Ann, Missus Muskrat replied, we have
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  Speaker 10: the lovely ice cream soda water fountain in our living
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  Speaker 10: room and the lolllypop garden at the kitchen door. What
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  Speaker 10: more could we wish for to make our friends any happier?
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  Speaker 10: Then I spect our adventurers at an end, raggedy Ann said,
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  Speaker 10: for Raggedy Andy, and I must return to the nursery,
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  Speaker 10: and we have a long way to go. The kindly
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  Speaker 10: Muskrats did not like to see Raggedy Ann and Raggedy
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  Speaker 10: Andy leave, but they also knew they must not be
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  Speaker 10: selfish with their friends, so they gave Raggedy Ann and
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  Speaker 10: Raggedy Andy a lot of tight hugs, then watched the
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  Speaker 10: two dolls as they walked away through the tall yellow grass.
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  Speaker 10: What a pleasure it is to have generous, kindly friends
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  Speaker 10: who love us, missus Muskrat said, as she waved her
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  Speaker 10: eyes with the corner of her apron, And as Raggedy
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  Speaker 10: Ann and Raggedy Andy, with an arm about each other,
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  Speaker 10: walked towards their home, the same pleasant thoughts ran through
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  Speaker 10: their little cotton stuffed heads. And while they said never
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  Speaker 10: a word to each other, each knew and felt the
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  Speaker 10: others shared the same joyousness. And as you sure we
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  Speaker 10: must know, there is no feeling which brings as much
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  Speaker 10: true sunshine to our hearts as the happiness of honest,
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  Speaker 10: loving friendship. End of Raggedy Anne's Wishing Pebble by Johnny
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  Speaker 10: Gruell