The Thrifty people were very, very small and looked like real fairies. One little Fairy called,
“I’d make a four-poster bed to-day,
If I had your pencils, Girl Throw-Away.”
Little Girl Throw-Away looked in her dress pocket and apron pocket, but she could not find any pencils at all. Then the Fairy said,
“I like paper sheets, you think it funny,
But they would save me lots of money.”
Then Little Girl Throw-Away, sighed, “Oh dear, oh dear, I do throw away things so much, I never save my paper, I never write on both sides of a sheet.”
The Fairy next said in a sing-song kind of way,
“I would be glad of everything,
If I only had a ball of string.”