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Updated: May 4, 2025
"She didn't look like our dear old Raggedy Ann at all!" said the tin soldier, who wiped the tears from his eyes so that they would not run down on his arms and rust them. "The paint covered her lovely smile and nose and you could not see the laughter in her shoe-button eyes!" said the Indian doll. And so the dolls talked that night and the next.
He found a quiet spot in the waiting room near the subway entrance and dug into his day pack for the pressed biscuit and the canister of water he had there. He broke off a piece of the biscuit and held it up for Fuzzy to see. Fuzzy wriggled down onto his hand, and a tiny mouth appeared just below the shoe-button eyes.
Marcella watched the sewing while Grandma told how she had played with Raggedy Ann when she was a little girl. "Now!" Grandma laughed, "Raggedy Ann, you have two fine shoe-button eyes and with them you can see the changes that have taken place in the world while you have been shut up so long in the attic!
When he faced round again, the shoe-button eyes were shining triumphantly, and he was holding both fore-paws together tightly. "I found one!" he cried. And wabbling over to Jane, stationed himself on one side of her, at the same time motioning the Officer to steal round to the other side on quiet hands.
She took a rag and wiped off my shoe-button eyes and then I saw that she was a very pretty, sweet-faced lady and she got some cleaner and wiped off most of the paint on my face. "But you know," Raggedy continued, "the paint had soaked through my rag head and had made the cotton inside all sticky and soggy and I could not think clearly. And my yarn hair was all matted with paint.
And Raggedy Ann, with a merry twinkle in her shoe-button eyes, lay back in her little bed, her cotton head filled with thoughts of love and happiness. "Why, Dinah! How could you!" Mamma looked out of the window and saw Marcella run up to Dinah and take something out of her hand and then put her head in her arm and commence crying. "What is the trouble, Dear?"
And before I left the big clean white room there where hundreds of rag dolls so like me you would not have been able to tell us apart." "We could have told you by your happy smile!" cried the French dolly. "But all of my sister dolls have smiles just like mine!" replied Raggedy Ann. "And shoe-button eyes?" the dolls all asked. "Yes, shoe-button eyes!" Raggedy Ann replied.
"I think you'll find," assured the latter, "that a proper amount of cotton-batting is most refreshing." "Once I wanted Jane to take me to the Doll Hospital," complained Puffy, his shoe-button eyes hard with resentment; "but she said I was only a little beast." Gwendolyn looked severe. "Jane, you'll be sorry for that," she scolded.
Raggedy jumped into her bed and pulled the covers to her chin, but lay so that her shoe-button eyes could see towards the window. Little Fairy forms radiant as silver came flitting into the nursery, singing in far away voices. They carried a little bundle. A beautiful light came from this bundle, and to Raggedy Ann and Fido it seemed like sunshine and moonshine mixed.
For a short second a little gleam as of surprise shone in his shoe-button eyes. Then he put out his hand, shoving the pink sheet aside. "Hello, Buck," he cried genially. "Where'd you blow in from?" "Poison Hole," briefly. He spun a silver dollar on the bar and ignored the hand. Blackie reached for bottle and glass, and putting them before the cowboy bestowed upon him a shrewd, searching look.
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