CHAPTER XXVI MARY FRANCES REALLY KNITS
MARY FRANCES had so much trouble getting the knack of this lesson that her fingers seemed like “all thumbs,” try as she would.
“You are a little nervous, my dear,” said Fairly Flew. “Do not get discouraged. Some day you will laugh at yourself for having trouble in doing this, because knitting will be as easy—what is very easy?” she asked.
“Billy says, ‘as easy as rolling out of bed,’” laughed Mary Frances.
“Well, ‘as easy as rolling out of bed,’” finished the fairy.
How Mary Frances wished that that time had come, or that the fairy would offer her her magic needles.