“Oh, ho! Hee-hee!” laughed Scissors Shears. “I bet we’ll have to use Jubey.”
“What for?” asked Tommy Pin Cushion.
“For the fur,” said Scissors Shears.
“I guess not, I guess not,” said Mary Frances stepping into the room. “Use Jubey! I’d rather Mary Marie would never have a fur-lined cape, Magic and Mystery!”
“Of course,” said Fairy Lady. “Oh, of course! By the way,—where is that cat?”
“She’s down-stairs,” said Mary Frances, “hunting mice in the cellar. Grandma asked me to let her be there.”
“That’s all right,” said Fairy Lady, “I feel a little more comfortable to know she is more interested in mice than in birds, at present. You see, she seems to birds very much as lions do to people.”
“Hunting mice in the cellar”