“I think not to-day for I must go and study my lessons now. To-morrow we’ll finish the dress,” said his little mistress.
“Very good,” replied Sir Bodkin. “Just fold your work up neatly and lay it in the work-basket on top of us.”
“Thank you all so much,” said Margaret to the One-Eyed Fairies as she placed the pincushion in the work-basket and laid the doll’s dress, neatly folded, on top.
The One-Eyed Fairies nestled down in the red tomato pincushion very comfortably and waited for to-morrow to come so they could show their little mistress how to hem the pretty dress she was making for her doll.
CHAPTER IV DAINTY HEMMER
Next day Margaret ran happily home from school. She put her books, hat and coat in the closet and then rushed up to her room to finish her doll’s dress.
“Goody me, such dirty hands! I must go to the bathroom and give them a good scrubbing with soap and water before I touch my work,” she said importantly to Sir Bodkin, who sang:
“Clean white fingers,