“Please try it, Mary Marie”
“Look out
there,
don’t fall”
“Oh, she’s only a baby!” said Tommy Pin Cushion. “Babies can’t talk!”
“Humph, I s’pose you know, ’cause you’re a cry-baby!” exclaimed Scissors Shears.
“I’m not a cry-baby!” exclaimed Tommy Pin Cushion.
“Yo’ are! Yo’ are!” cried Scissors Shears. “I can prove it!”
“I’m not! Am I, Sewing Bird,—am I?” asked Tommy Pin Cushion, the tears rolling down his fat red cheeks.
“If you could see yourself, you’d know you are!” snapped Scissors Shears.