CHAPTER XXVI MARY FRANCES REALLY KNITS
MARY FRANCES had so much trouble getting the knack of this lesson that her fingers seemed like “all thumbs,” try as she would.
“You are a little nervous, my dear,” said Fairly Flew. “Do not get discouraged. Some day you will laugh at yourself for having trouble in doing this, because knitting will be as easy—what is very easy?” she asked.
“Billy says, ‘as easy as rolling out of bed,’” laughed Mary Frances.
“Well, ‘as easy as rolling out of bed,’” finished the fairy.
How Mary Frances wished that that time had come, or that the fairy would offer her her magic needles.
“I cannot offer you my magic needles you know,” went on Fairly Flew; “but I can help you learn the lesson. Just watch me closely.”
She pulled two tiny gold knitting needles from her pocket. The heads of the needles sparkled so that Mary Frances thought they must be diamonds.
Then the fairy drew some fine yarn from her pocket and began to do the lesson just as she had given the directions to Mary Frances.
“Now, watch me closely,” she said, “and take your needles and do exactly as I do.”
Before Mary Frances realized it, she had fifteen nice rows of knitting done.
“Isn’t that splendid!” exclaimed Fairly Flew. “Now you are ready to learn—