[Illustration: Shaking the French doll upside down]
[Illustration: Hole in her head]
Laughingly they scrambled to their feet and sat the French doll up, so
they might look into the hole in the top of her head.
Yes, the sticky "medicine" had grown hard and would not let the French
doll's eyes open.
Raggedy Andy put his hand inside and pushed on the eyes so that they
opened.
This was all right, only now the eyes would not close when the French
doll lay down. She tried it.
So Raggedy Andy ran down into the kitchen and brought up a small tin cup
full of warm water and a tiny rag.
With these he loosened the sticky "medicine" and washed the inside of
the French doll's head nice and clean.
There were lots of cooky and cracker crumbs inside her head, too.
Raggedy Andy washed it all nice and clean, and then wet the glue which
made the pretty curls stay on.
So when her hair was placed upon her head again, the French doll was as
good as new.
"Thank you all very much!" she said, as she tilted backwards and
forwards, and found that her eyes worked very easily.
Raggedy Andy again wound up the little music box and, catching the
French doll about the waist, started a rollicking dance which lasted
until the roosters in the neighborhood began their morning crowing.
Then, knowing the folks might soon be astir, the dolls left off their
playing, and all took the same positions they had been in when Marcella
left them the night before.
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