The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
! ~Adventures # KasseAX, Rnn KaoAeAy AnAy

I guess you have been out in a deep, deep woods filled with fairies | n everything lots of times! And If you have, then you know just how lovely every thing is. The great trees above your head, whispering as you pass beneath There is a nice little boy!' or, There is nice little girl" whichever you happen to be. And perhaps one whispering tree will say to another:
 Don't you wish that nice little boy Cor girD could see all the Fairies n everything?'s And the next tree will rustic it's leaves and whisper back: Tt would be nice. Oh, yes. ndeed!' And although you hear the trees whisper to each other, maybe you cannot understand just what 1t Is they say, But with Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, it is different. for they know just what the trees were whispering about. They knew just what the lovely birds were sing
 ing and whysthe pretty little flow CTS nodded their heads to each other. And 1t was because all the deep, deep woods was so beautiful, everything
 in it just had to be happy. And that is why, when you walk through 1 the deep. deep woods you feel so happy and why you laugh and shout and love everything you see. It is only just once in a while that some one comes through the deep, deep woods who Is selfish himself. and of course then, that person does not | feel the joy and happiness about him.
 So, when Raggedy Ann and Rag gedy Andy walked through the deep, deep woods. and suddenly heard Jas per Jay high up in a tree, quarrel ing at someone down below; and Charlie Chipmunk chattering in an gry tones at some one down below, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy tip toed up and peeped through the
 bushes. And there they saw old Mister Meany fixing something down in the grass at the side of the laugh | ing brook. And Charlie Chipmunk and Jasper Jay chattered and quar- reled at Mister Meany until he had finished what he was doing and had gone away. Even then, Jasper Jay flew above Mister Meany and scolded him. And Charlie Chipmunk came down beside Raggedy Ann and Rag gedy Andy when they walked over I to see what Mister Meany had been doing.
 "Glack" Something snapped right where Raggedy Andy stepped and before he could even say My two steel clamps jumped up and caught Raggedy Andy right where his blue pants buttoned to his striped waist It was lucky for Raggedy Andy that he was made of cloth and stuffed with cotton, or else the clamps would have knocked the wind out of him. And it was bad enough as it was. 1 for the clamps squeezed so tight. 1 Raggedy Andy's cotton stuffed stom- ach was only a quarter of an inch thick. ''Hum," Raggedy Andy said, very much surprised.
 "Oh, dear.' Charlie Chipmunk cried. "Now you are caught in old Mister Meany's trap and he will take you home, like he does all the other animals he catches. and sell your clothes!'
 l Raggedy Andy pushed upon the clamps of the trap, and so did Rag gedv Ann and Charlie Chipmunk, but they could not budge them even one I speck. And if Nester Gnome had not heard them talking and come to the rescue, there is no telling how ! long Raggedy Andy would have had to stay in the trap. But Nester | Gnome,s hands were very strong, even though he was no larger than Raggedy Andy and as soon as Nes- | ter Gnome had rescued Raggedy Andy from Mister Meany's steel trap. 1 they carried the trap and hid It where Mister Andy would never, never find it. And when Raggedy Ann and Nester Gnome had patted Raggedy Andy's stomach until it was nice and round again, then Nester Gnome gave each lemon Jolly pop, for Iolly pops are very good to eSt after being caught in trap, or at any other time. And l wish you had one now, just to sec how good they are Don't YOU?