the penny dolls a scoot down the shiny tin gutter.

"Whee! See her go!" Raggedy Andy cried.

All the other dolls climbed upon the window sill beside him.

"Scoot me too!" cried the other little penny doll in her squeeky little
voice, and Raggedy Andy took her in his rag hand and gave her a great
swing which sent her scooting down the shiny tin gutter, "Kerswish!"

Then Raggedy Andy climbed into the gutter himself and, taking a few
steps, spread out his feet and went scooting down the shiny tin.

The other dolls followed his example and scooted along behind him.

When Raggedy Andy came to the place where he expected to find the penny
dolls lying, they were nowhere about.

"Perhaps you scooted them farther than you thought!" Uncle Clem said.

"Perhaps I did!" Raggedy Andy said, "We will look around the bend in the
eave!"

"Oh dear!" he exclaimed when he had peeped around the corner of the
roof, "the gutter ends here and there is nothing but a hole!"

"They must have scooted right into the hole," Henny, the Dutch doll
said.

Raggedy Andy lay flat upon the shiny tin and looked down into the hole.

"Are you down there, penny dolls?" he called.

There was no answer.

"I hope their heads were not broken!" Raggedy Ann said.

[Illustration: In the gutter]

"I'm so sorry I scooted them!" Raggedy Andy cried, as he brushed his
hand over his shoe button eyes.

"Maybe if you hold to my feet, I can reach down the hole and find them
and pull them up again!" he added.

Uncle Clem and Henny each caught hold of a foot of Raggedy Andy and let
him slide down into the hole.

It was a rather tight fit, but Raggedy Andy wiggled and twisted until
all the dolls could see of him were his two feet.

"I can't find them!" he said in muffled tones. "Let me down farther and
I think I'll be able to reach them!"

Now Henny and Uncle Clem thought that Raggedy Andy meant for them to let
go of his feet and this they did.

Raggedy Andy kept wiggling and twisting until he came to a bend in the
pipe and could go no farther.

"I can't find them!" he cried. "They have gone farther down the pipe!
Now you can pull me up!"

"We can't reach you, Raggedy Andy!" Uncle Clem called down the pipe.
"Try to wiggle back up a piece and we will catch your feet and pull you
up!"

Raggedy Andy tried to wiggle backward up the pipe, but his clothes
caught upon a little piece of tin which stuck out from the inside of the
pipe and there he stayed. H