sang Sewing Bird.
“She’s not only sweet,
But timely and neat”
“She certainly does, dear Magic and Mystery,” laughed Mary Frances. Then to Fairy Lady,—“and I shall need your help so much! I’m simply too excited to tell you rightly about all the rest of my perfectly beautiful surprise—but I will try.”
Then she told of Mary Marie and her trunk.
“Bring in the trunk,—will you, please?” asked Fairy Lady, who had come at once, in answer to the magic word.
“I’m the
richest
Mother in
the world”
“Yes, indeed!” said Mary Frances; “I’m the richest mother, I guess, in the world, with such beautiful goods, dear Thimble People—oh, such a wonderful lot!”
Then she brought in the trunk and spread out all its pretty contents before the admiring eyes of the Thimble People.