So Mary Frances started bravely to work again. When she had done the seven rows which she had ripped out Fairly Flew said, “How well you have done, little girl! Now, you may finish the shawl with my magic needles.”

You can imagine, can’t you, just how pleased Mary Frances was when the fairy’s golden diamond-headed needles finished the shawl in a minute?

All this time Crow Shay had watched with sparkling eyes everything that happened.

Fairly Flew now turned to him and said, “You have been so very good, Crow Shay, that you may make the fringe on this shawl.”

Mary Frances couldn’t help laughing to see the little fellow tumble head foremost into the little shawl and kick the fringe on the ends in less time than it would take to tell you how to do it.


CHAPTER XXVIII DOLL’S KNITTED HOOD