She looked so beautiful, Mary Frances would have liked to kiss her—then just to sit still, and look at her; but she thought,

“When she is so dear and kind, and when all the Thimble People want to help me so much, I ought not to loiter.”

Make button-holes in band

“I’m here!”
said a
little tiny
voice

“I’m here!” said a little tiny voice, and, to be sure, it was Silver Thimble.

“And I!”—it was Needle Book.

“And I!”—Scissors Shears.