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,