“Oh,” said Mary Frances, breaking off some thread. “Thank you, I didn’t know that. I suppose it is easier to use only an arm’s length of thread.”
“Yes,” said Sewing Bird. “Now, it would be well to open the skein of cotton.”
Mary Frances did so.
“Next clip both ends through—and you will have several threads of the same length.”
“That’s so much easier,” said Mary Frances, “than cutting it each time.”
“Now, for a new kind of puzzle,” said Sewing Bird. “Take one piece of canvas already cut. For convenience we will call the regular open spaces in the canvas, ‘holes.’”
“Yes,” said Mary Frances. “I understand, dear Sewing Bird; but please tell me the puzzle.”
“Now, for a new kind of puzzle”