The next morning Anne was awakened by loud yells. As she slowly opened her eyes she saw Kloppman, Pieboy, and Jack shaking her. "It's time to wake up!" Kloppman roared.
In her head she wondered how such a gentle looking man could be so loud.
She just groaned and covered her head with her pillow. The three were then joined by Mush, Blink, and Race who asked, "What's da matta'" "She won't get up," Pieboy replied.
They all looked from one to another. "Well, if ya ain't gunna get up were gunna have ta use da secret method," Blink said sneakily.
She slowly uncovered one eye from her pillow and asked suspiciously, "What do you mean?" "I guess we're jist gunna have ta show ya." Race replied and with that all of the boys began to tickle her. She got up quickly and began to playfully punch all of the hysterically laughing boys.
"Uh... oh" Blink said. "What's da matta Blink?" they all said at once. "I guess we forgot, but girls ain't aloud ta sell papes." he replied sadly. "Well, why not!" Anne said angrily, placing her hands on her hips. "We don't know it's jist a rule," Jack said.
She sadly sat back down on the bed and began to think intensively. Then a light bulb came on in Race's head, "What about a disguise?" "That's a great idea!" Mush exclaimed.
"Hold up...hold up!" Race said, trying to calm down the excitement. "What are we going to do about dis?" he asked, fingering her beautiful golden locks. "Yeah that is a problem."
Pie replied. Anne who was terribly confused about what they were talking about asked, "What...what?" and began to look at them fiercely.
"What do you think we should do with it?" The conversation continued causing Anne to get more and more angry by the second. "Well, we can't cut it..." Mush said, causing her to finally catch on. "No.... no.... no....no ....You can't," she stuttered. "There's no way that you are going to cut my hair!" she exclaimed and climbed to the top of the bunk bed.
Noticing that she was trying to get away they all began to climb up the bunk to chase after her. Finally Pieboy herded her into a corner of the room and wrestled her to the ground. "We ain't gunna cut it...we're jist gunna braid it," he said as he struggled to keep a hold of her.
Finally they got her to sit still long enough for Kloppman to braid it and attach it under a cap. She got dressed in her newsie attire and headed downstairs. She slowly glanced down at her pants and button down shirt. Finally she said, "I feel funny" as she shook her pants. "Yeah dey might take a bit of getting used to." Jack said.
"So how do I look?" she asked with a smile. "Beautiful" Mush smiled. "No! I don't want to look beautiful," she said as she quickly ran to a mirror and tried to smudge up her face.
"Alright let's go to carry the banner." she laughed, putting an arm around Pieboy.