“Hush!”
said Silver
Thimble
“I know,” guessed Mary Frances. “It’s for a casing to hold the drawing strings.”
“Oh, to my heart
That music rings,
For you to guess
It’s ‘drawing strings,’”
sang Fairy Lady.
“How could her heart draw strings,” asked Scissors Shears of Thimble, in a whisper.
“Hush!” said Silver Thimble, raising his sword-needle.
“Snip!” snapped Scissors Shears. But Fairy Lady, not noticing, continued the lesson.