THE RAG DOLL

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 10

THE RAG DOLL

(Original.) - The Bag Doll was a very jealous doll who hated all the other toys. They were very nice dolls, but Baggy, as the Bag poll was called, was unlike the others in every way.

• One day, as Baggy was saying to Teddy, the Teddy Bear, that Joan the Dutch Doll had much better • clothes than herself, one of her ribbons,started to pull her. She tied it up again, while Teddy looked at her ribbon in astonishment, for the ribbon was starting to pull again;

"I am going to throw this ribbon away, because I do not like it," cried Kaggy.

But just as she gripped hold of the ribbon a blue fairy came into her hand. ,> "Where have you-come from?" asked Baggy. ' ,■■' v . ' ■ "From your hair-ribbon, of course," answered the fairy. , • ."How could you come from my hairribbon?" asked Baggy. , "I was hiding in the ribbon,'!? answered the Jtoiry. "It wasTwho.pnlled your hair-ribbon" to remind yon not to talk about other people's clothes.' "I won'ttalk^about other p-people's clothes any more," said *Baggy. » '.'I hope that .is true," said the fairy, and she flewaway. Teddy h*di)eeh liitening to this conversation,' and hoped the same as the fairy. .' ■ ■■ • "I hope -that will teach you," said Teddy at-last. ■ "I don J.t think it would be much good, do you?" asked Baggy. "Not much use, because all the others have been complaining of your jealousy-and" bad 'behaviour," answered Teddy. "I will try to be good, anyhow," said Baggy. Those yrords helped: her along, for, after that* she was as-good as the other tqys., ::, ' ' ' ' "BROWN BETTY" (3). Petone. . ; v '