“Tie the ends tightly together and your marble-bag is made,” the little fellow said to his mistress, as he bowed very low.
“Thank you, thank you,” said Margaret. “Won’t Jim be tickled to get this to hold his snappers, croakies, agates, and glassies.”
CHAPTER IX MARGARET’S NEW MIDDY BLOUSE
“Yes, he was pleased,” said Margaret to Sir Bodkin and the One-Eyed Fairies who asked her how Jim liked his marble-bag.
“Well, I say it’s very pleasant when people like what you make for them,” said the King wisely.
“To-day I want to do something for Mother. Of course it’s on something for me but she had such a lot of baking to do to-day she couldn’t finish the new middy blouse that I need to wear to-morrow. We wear them in ‘gym,’ you know, and out in the country in the summer,” said Margaret.
“In Jim?” asked Sir Bodkin somewhat mystified.
“Gymnasium,” explained Margaret, suddenly remembering that her little friends, though sharp, might not be so keen on knowing about things belonging to the great outside world.
