CHAPTER XXVII DOING IT OVER AGAIN
AS soon as Mary Frances opened her eyes the next morning she thought of the promised lesson.
“I’ll hurry and dress,” she whispered. “Perhaps I can start my lesson before breakfast. I wonder if the Knitting People are awake yet?”
Soon she was dressed, and ran to the sewing room.
“Good morning,” everybody greeted her as she entered.
This surprised her quite a little.
“Why, good morning, my dear friends,” she replied. “I thought maybe you wouldn’t be awake yet. It is so early.”
“Give me a shake
If I’m not awake
Before anyone else
Jumps into the cake,”
sang Crow Shay.
“Jumps into the cake!” exclaimed Mary Frances. “Why, what has that to do with your waking up?”
“Oh, nothing,” answered Crow Shay, “only I couldn’t think of any other word to rhyme.”
Then Mary Frances laughed and said the little magic verse,
“Fairy Fairly Flew,
Please come, for I need you.”
“Good morning,” Fairly Flew said; and before Mary Frances could reply, she added, “How pleased we are to see you so bright and early because you are so anxious to learn your lesson.”
“And because I am so anxious to make something for my dolly,” said Mary Frances.
“Well, you may start right away,” and Fairly Flew began to give the instructions for making—
