sang Sewing Bird, hopping up and down on one leg.

“Why, I know how to thread my needle,” said Mary Frances, to whom the talking of Sewing Bird seemed just as natural as the talking of Tea Kettle and the other Kitchen People.

Sang Sewing Bird, hopping up and down.

To
thread a
needle

“I know, too, that you should put the end of the thread broken off next the spool through the eye of the needle, so that it will not kink.”

“Very good,

And very true;—