Held it out towards Mary Frances
“Poor
Pinny”
“I do thank you—very—gratefully,” she said, not knowing exactly how to behave toward the ambassador of the Thimble King.
“For shame, Tommy Pin Cushion!” exclaimed Fairy Lady, who overheard him mimicking Needle Book. “Don’t make fun! Never, never will you be Bearer of the Needle-of-Don’t-Have-to-Try for the King of Thimble Land.”
“I beg your pudden!” said Tommy Pin Cushion to Needle Book, getting very red in the face.
“Poor Pinny!” exclaimed Needle Book, looking very disdainfully toward Tomato Pin Cushion, “always getting ‘squelched!’”
“Come,” said Fairy Lady. “No more of that needle-and-pin talk!” Then to Mary Frances: