“I beg your Majesty’s pardon,” said the little fellow turning to Sewing Bird Fairy Lady—“but perhaps Miss Mary Frances doesn’t understand that all needles are my swords!”
“Am I to be forgotten?”
“He thinks himself so brave a soldier,” laughed Sewing Bird Fairy Lady—“when all the time he is perfectly useless by himself.”
“But he is a great help,” said Mary Frances. “I don’t see how I could sew without him.”
“Good!” said Fairy Lady. “But he’ll be prouder than ever! That’s all for to-day—next lesson we will make something for your dolly to use.”
“Oh, how lovely!” exclaimed Mary Frances, finishing her last stitches. “What is it?”
“Oh, well! oh, well, O!