the little girl would wonder and
wonder how I could ever get into the nursery without awakening the rest
of the folks, for she will never suspect that you dolls and Fido let me
in!"

So with Raggedy Andy leading the way, they ran up to the nursery and
there, 'way back in a corner, they watched the Easter bunny make a
lovely nest and put the Easter eggs in it.

And in the morning when Marcella came in to see the dolls you can
imagine her surprise when she found the pretty gift of the Easter
bunny.

"How in the world did the bunny get inside the house and into this room
without awakening Fido?" she laughed.

And Fido, pretending to be asleep, slowly opened one eye and winked over
the edge of his basket at Raggedy Andy.

And Raggedy Andy smiled back at Fido, but never said a word.

[Illustration: How did the bunny get into this room?]

[Illustration: Looking out the window]

[Illustration: Raggedy Andy under the quilt]

THE NEW TIN GUTTER

All day Saturday the men had worked out upon the eaves of the house and
the dolls facing the window could see them.

The men made quite a lot of noise with their hammers, for they were
putting new gutters around the eaves, and pounding upon tin makes a
great deal of noise.

Marcella had not played with the dolls all that day, for she had gone
visiting; so when the men hammered and made a lot of noise, the dolls
could talk to each other without fear of anyone hearing or knowing they
were really talking to each other.

"What are they doing now?" Raggedy Andy asked.

He was lying with his head beneath a little bed quilt, just as Marcella
had dropped him when she left the nursery; so he could not see what was
going on.

"We can only see the men's legs as they pass the window," answered Uncle
Clem. "But they are putting new shingles or something on the roof!"

After the men had left their work and gone home to supper and the house
was quiet, Raggedy Andy cautiously moved his head out from under the
little bed quilt and, seeing that the coast was clear, sat up.

This was a signal for all the dolls to sit up and smooth out the
wrinkles in their clothes.

[Illustration: Lifting the penny dolls]

The nursery window was open; so Raggedy Andy lifted the penny dolls to
the sill and climbed up beside them.

Leaning out, he could look along the new shiny tin gutter the men had
put in place.

"Here's a grand place to have a lovely slide!" he said as he gave one of