The kite, released from the weight of Raggedy Ann began darting and swooping to the ground. Marcella jumped from the ground, too surprised to say anything. Suddenly the rag parted and Raggedy Ann went sailing away as the wind caught in her skirts. Marcella did not like to leave Raggedy Ann with the boys, so she sat down upon the ground to wait until they pulled down the kite.īut while Marcella watched Raggedy Ann, a dot in the sky, she could not see the wind ripping the rag to which Raggedy was tied. “We’ll bring her home when we pull down the kite! We’re going to get another ball of twine and let her go higher!” “Let her ride up there!” the boy replied.
“Will you please pull down the kite now?” she asked the boy with the twine.
There was more fun in tea parties out under the apple tree.
But after the kite had been up in the air for five or ten minutes, Marcella grew restless. When Marcella watched Raggedy Ann rise high above the field, she wondered how much Raggedy Ann enjoyed it, and wished that she, too, might have gone along. As each puff of wind caught her the rip widened. Suddenly a great puff of wind came and carried Raggedy Ann streaming ‘way out behind the kite! She could hear the wind singing on the twine as the strain increased. How Raggedy Ann enjoyed being up there! She could see for miles and miles! And how tiny the children looked! The boy with the ball of twine unwound it until the kite and Raggedy Ann were ‘way, ‘way up and far away. This time the kite rose straight in the air and remained steady. So Raggedy Ann was tied to the tail of the kite. The boys all shouted with delight at this new suggestion. “I know she would enjoy a trip ‘way up in the sky!” “Let’s tie Raggedy Ann to the tail!” suggested Marcella. Then the children asked each other where they might get more rags to fasten to the tail of the kite. “It needs more tail on it!” one boy shouted. How nicely it climbed! But suddenly the kite acted strangely, and as all the children shouted advice to the boy with the ball of twine, the kite began darting this way and that, and finally making four or five loop-the-loops, it crashed to the ground. Marcella held Raggedy up so that she could watch the kite sail through the air. There was a nice breeze blowing, so the boy with the twine called, “Let ‘er go” and started running. When a tail had been fastened to the kite and a large ball of heavy twine tied to the front, one of the boys held the kite up in the air and another boy walked off, unwinding the ball of twine. Raggedy Ann heard some of the boys talk of “The Kite,” so Raggedy Ann knew this must be a kite. Raggedy Ann watched with interest the preparations.Ī number of sticks were being fastened together with strings and covered with light cloth.
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