![]() ![]() “Well, first of all, when Freddy was covered with the sand, he enjoyed it immensely. “No, what did happen to him?” Marcella asked. “But it turned out all right after all, for do you know what happened to Freddy?” “Yes, indeed it was!” the new friend replied as he took Raggedy Ann up and made her dance on Marcella’s knee. ![]() “It was too bad they forgot Freddy,” said Marcella. Virginia and Doris were very sad and they talked of Freddy all the way home.” “Now when it came time for us to go home, Virginia and Doris remembered Freddy and ran down to get him, but the tide had come in and Freddy was ‘way out under the water and they could not find him. And when they had covered Freddy they took their little pails and shovels and went farther down the beach to play and forgot all about Freddy. They were playing that Freddy was in bathing and that he wanted to be covered with the clean white sand, just as the other bathers did. “Their names are Virginia and Doris, and one time when we were at the sea-shore they were playing in the sand and they covered up Freddy, Doris’ boy-doll in the sand. “I have two little girls,” he told Marcella. ![]() He took Marcella upon his knee and ran his fingers through her curls as he talked to Daddy and Mamma, so, of course, Raggedy Ann liked him from the beginning. ![]()
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