Is on the wing:

Miss Never-Try

Never can do;

Miss Never-Begin

Never gets thru.”

“I love
to sit
And sing
and sing”

“Oh, dear me! Sewing Bird, I want to begin right away,” said Mary Frances. “I hope to get so much done!”

“Well,” said Sewing Bird, “we will begin at once with that pretty canvas and Turkey-red working cotton (D. M. C. No. 8). You may cut some pieces of canvas seven inches long and one and one-half inches wide. Work on the sewing table—that will be easier.”

“Oh, I know,” guessed Mary Frances, “the Java canvas is to learn the stitches on.”