Her mother said to her, “Rikka, if you will learn to knit, I will give you a ‘Wonder-Ball.’”
“A ‘Wonder-Ball!’ What is that, mother?” asked Rikka.
“It is a ball of yarn,” said her mother. “There are little presents or surprise gifts wound up in the ball. As you knit the yarn from the ball, the gifts fall out.”
“Oh, I should like a Wonder-Ball, Mother,” cried Rikka. “I will learn to knit and I will knit fast so that I can knit my presents from the ball.”
Rikka’s mother made her a “Wonder-Ball.” It was a very big, blue ball. She gave Rikka some shining needles and taught her how to knit.
Rikka tried and tried, and at last she learned to knit. It was very hard at first, but she did not give up.
The first gift she knit from her ball was a little silver pencil. She was much pleased with it.
She knit hard every day.