Chapter VI
The Stitch Grandma Learned
MARY FRANCES stopped on the stairs to listen.
“Surely,” she thought, “Sewing Bird is talking with some one. I wonder if it’s one of the Thimble People. Oh, I do hope so!” and, as she tripped into the sewing-room, she asked,
“What’s
that
I heard?”
“Oh, Sewing Bird, what’s that I heard as I came up the stair? It really doesn’t matter much—for Grandma wouldn’t care.”
“I cannot tell you what you heard,