"You will enjoy them better by and by," Kathie went on, softly. "Some day you may be able to make pretty frames for the pictures. And I brought you a set of crochet-needles. Can you crochet?"
"Only to make a chain. I can do that with my fingers. I wish I did know how. And if I could ever knit a cap like the baby's!"
"We will sit down here and talk, and I can show you one or two patterns of edgings that are simple and pretty."
"How good you are!"
Sarah was no dullard, after all. Though her fingers appeared rather clumsy at first, she soon managed to conquer the intricate loops, turnings, and stitches.
"Why, I wouldn't have believed it!"—in great joy. "I've done a whole scallop by myself."
Kathie laughed in answer.
"Now, if you'll only tell me something more about grammar, and putting the right word in—the place where it belongs. You see all the big girls at school know so much more than I do—"
Kathie understood. She explained several matters that had been great mountains to her in the beginning.