When the second one was done, Sir Bodkin showed Margaret how to lap the buttonholes over the other end of the band and mark the place for the buttons with a pin. Then she sewed each button on with strong black cotton thread.
Just as she finished she heard her mother calling to her that dinner was ready.
“I wonder what she’ll say when she sees these,” Margaret said to her little friends.
“She’ll think you’re a very smart little girl, I’ll wager,” replied Sir Bodkin, bowing and scraping.
“Thank you both,” said Margaret, and ran out of the room carrying the bloomers over her arm.
CHAPTER XVII TUCKING GRANDMA’S APRON
One day Margaret and her little friends, the One-Eyes, were talking together about grandparents.
“You never had any grandmother or grandfather, did you?” Margaret asked Sir Bodkin.