“O dear,” said Margaret, “the thread gets so twisted as he goes over and over.”
“Let him hang for a minute from the end and he’ll swing it around straight again,” laughed Sir Bodkin.
This was done and the overcasting went on. After a while they were around the four sides of the handkerchief.
“What shall we do now!” cried Margaret.
“Fasten the red thread, take a blue one, then turn around and go the other way from left to right and you’ll see how pretty it looks,” said the King. The Fairy sang:
“Over and over from left to right,
To cross our first steps we go.
Jump over the edge, stick my toe ’neath the hem
Where I came through the first time you know.”