“Then I shall fold it in three lengthwise folds as Mother does, with the center on top to show the letters, and wrap it up in white tissue paper!” cried Margaret. “Thank you three so much. Auntie will be pleased with her birthday present, I know.”
“You’re very welcome, My Lady, so say I and so say they!” cried the King, very much pleased, too.
After Margaret had run off to show her mother the pretty towel finished, Sir Bodkin said to his two subjects, “She is a pretty nice little girl. She’s always thinking up something to do for other people.”
They both agreed with him and all three slipped into the work-basket to the needle-book and went to sleep with the other One-Eyed Fairies.
CHAPTER XI A THREE-CORNERED TEAR
“Dear me, it’s so lovely outdoors,” sighed Margaret, one day in May. She had torn her new dress on a nail when she was climbing over a fence.
“Mother says it was very careless of me and I s’pose I can’t go out again until it’s mended!” She looked very unhappy indeed as she said this.