She would not tell anyone what she wanted the string for.
By and by the Thrifty Fairies took Little Girl Throw-Away home.
She sat in her little red rocking chair and said, “I cannot see the Fairies now, but I will begin to save for them!”
So she saved her little bits of pencils and paper and string, and laid them in a little box on the window-sill every night, and every morning they were gone.
She saved all the paper bags too, that came to the house for the Fairies.
By and by at the end of a year and a day, she saw a Fairy balloon.
It sailed down, down, down, and the little Fairy from Thrift Town stepped out and said,
“Our balloon is made of your paper and string
And kites too we have made, and everything.”