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    Racketty-Packetty House, as Told by Queen Crosspatch
    Racketty-Packetty House, as Told by Queen Crosspatch
    Racketty-Packetty House, as Told by Queen Crosspatch
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    Racketty-Packetty House, as Told by Queen Crosspatch

    By Harrison Cady and Frances Hodgson Burnett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1971
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    Racketty-Packetty House, as Told by Queen Crosspatch - Harrison Cady

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    Title: Racketty-Packetty House

    Author: Frances H. Burnett

    Release Date: August 11, 2004 [EBook #8574]

    Last Updated: October 24, 2012

    Last Updated: November 10, 2012

    Language: English

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    Racketty-Packetty House, by H. Burnett

    RACKETTY-PACKETTY HOUSE

    As told by Queen Crosspatch

    By Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Author of Little Lord Fauntleroy

    With illustrations by Harrison Cady

    Now this is the story about the doll family I liked and the doll family I didn't. When you read it you are to remember something I am going to tell you. This is it: If you think dolls never do anything you don't see them do, you are very much mistaken. When people are not looking at them they can do anything they choose. They can dance and sing and play on the piano and have all sorts of fun. But they can only move about and talk when people turn their backs and are not looking. If any one looks, they just stop. Fairies know this and of course Fairies visit in all the dolls' houses where the dolls are agreeable. They will not associate, though, with dolls who are not nice. They never call or leave their cards at a dolls' house where the dolls are proud or bad tempered. They are very particular. If you are conceited or ill-tempered yourself, you will never know a fairy as long as you live.

    Queen Crosspatch.

    RACKETTY-PACKETTY HOUSE

    Racketty-Packetty House was in a corner of Cynthia's nursery. And it was not in the best corner either. It was in the corner behind the door, and that was not at all a fashionable neighborhood. Racketty-Packetty House had been pushed there to be out of the way when Tidy Castle was brought in, on Cynthia's birthday. As soon as she saw Tidy Castle Cynthia did not care for Racketty-Packetty House and indeed was quite ashamed of it. She thought the corner behind the door quite good enough for such a shabby old dolls' house, when there was the beautiful big new one built like a castle and furnished with the most elegant chairs and tables and carpets and curtains and ornaments and pictures and beds and baths and lamps and book-cases, and with a knocker on the front door, and a stable with a pony cart in it at the back. The minute she saw it she called out:

    Oh! what a beautiful doll castle! What shall we do with that untidy old Racketty-Packetty House now? It is too shabby and old-fashioned to stand near it.

    In fact, that was the way in which the old dolls' house got its name. It had always been called, The Dolls' House, before, but after that it was pushed into the unfashionable neighborhood behind the door and ever afterwards—when it was spoken of at all—it was just called Racketty-Packetty House, and nothing else.

    Of course Tidy Castle was grand, and Tidy Castle was new and had

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