As every one knows.
So mind the old adage,
You’ll find it quite fine—
That one timely stitch
Is sure to save nine!”
Every one laughed and clapped their hands at the Fairy who ran back in confusion to the pincushion.
CHAPTER XV A CREWEL FROLIC
School had begun, and Margaret was so busy for the first few weeks with her lessons, her play, and her friends, that she had not seen much of her little One-Eyed Fairy friends.
“It’s much better for her to be outdoors a lot this nice weather than sitting indoors sewing. Plenty of time for that later on,” said the King one day. “Of course it’s very fine to know how to sew, but ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,’” he quoted to his shining subjects in the work-basket.