Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-27
The ADVENT RES of
Raggedy
Ann end
y oHNNY Ellie

There IS something so thrilling about
the call Of the Red Winged Blackbird as
he futters about the marshy places and
teeters on the tall cat tails along the
sides of brooks so when Rocky Red
Wing lit upon the tall weed above Rag
gedy Ann and Baggedy Andy and
sweted his throat into melody, the two
rag dolls remained as quiet as Grandpa
! Mole when Puppy dog Is trying TO
dig him out OF his long burrow home.
Hickey Red Wing ended his song with
4 flick Of his wings showing the brill
liant patches Of scarlet on his shoulders.
Then lowering his head to preen his
eathers. he noticed the two rag dolls
sitting in the grasses. but he noticed
Raggedy AIMS twinkly shoe button
eyes. so hejumped down upon Raggedy
AIMS shoulder and pecked at her right
shoe button eye. OF course this did
not hurt Raggedy Ann even n teebyi
weeny, suidgin for her shoe button
eyes were sewed on with strong linen
thread. Ricky Red Wing pulled so hard
he leaned way back and Raggedy AIMS
face was pulled over tn one side. This
made her smile that much wider and
she enjoyed It. Finally Ricky Red Wing
gave up and looked at RaGGedy Andy.
Raggedy Andy wiggled one Of his shoe
button eyes at Ricky Red Wing He
could do this, because one eye had not
been sewn as close to his face as the
! other and the shoe button eye hung
down with a sort of sly wlnky look.
II never saw berries like those be-
forew Ricky Red Wing said out loud.
",They are not berries :" Raggedy Ann
could not help laughing right in Ricky
Red Wings car and startling his 80 he
fel into Raggedy Andys lap. Raggedy
Andy took his soft rag hand and with
the thumb scratched Ricky Red Wings
| head This pleased Ricky Red Wing for
1t was the first time he ever had his
head scratched except with his own foot.
Ricky Red Wing told Raggedy Andy as
much and added, zone can think so
much better when one scratches ones
head but when you have to stand upon
one foot and use the other to scratch
with, 1t makes you forget what you are
| trying to think about"
| Raggedy Ann said she had never tried
It, 30 she stood up and with her two
hands tried scratching her head with her
foot. but her leg was so soft and lOppy,
when she tried 10 stand alone upon it.
1t wrinkled up in under her and sat
down again. your wings are so lovely
Ricky Red Wing" Raggefy Ann said
as she reached over and smoothed the
birds back with her soft hand. How
did you get the brilliant patches Of scar
let on them?" Andy asked, "Are you re-
lated to the Red Bird?"
II do not know" Ricky Red Wing
answered, But Grandpa told us once how
we came to have the scarlet patch on
our shoulders"
Ricky Red Wing threw back his head
and sang little melody before startling
his story. 1--WE always do that" he ex-
plinaed. "And when you hear the story,
you will know why! A long, long time
ago our family was all back. and we lived
in the deep, deep woods filed with Fair
les n everything; and at tile edge Of
| the woods there was a lake. And in
this lake lived Muckydoodles. Some said
she was a Witch. NAckydoodles riled
up the waters when she was angry. Our
family came every day to the lake for
our water and krew Muckydoodles was
really unhappy instead Of cross, so we
always said, Good Morning Mucky' as
! pleasantly as we could. One day our
family found Muckydoodles sitting in
the mud crying so hard the tears ran
down her face and made it all muddy.
And they felt so sorry for Muckydoodles
they flew to the deep, deep Woods and
! brought back Crystal, the fairy who lived
In the laughing tinkling brook. And
when Crystal saw Muckydood]es with