“You tell me what to do,” said Scissors Shears, wagging his ears back and forward. “I like my ears. They do not help me work—but I can hear almost anything with them. I can hear what Tommy Pin Cushion is thinking.”
“Goodness!” exclaimed Tommy Pin Cushion. “You must be most unhappy!”
Mary Frances laughed.
“What is to-day’s lesson?” she asked.
Sewing Bird began to sing:
“I see you haven’t guessed it yet—
It’s just a little flannel pet.
A period after pet. you’ll note;
It’s short for flannel petticoat.
Oh, de de dum dum!