THE MAGIC PAPER
MARY FRANCES carried her new dolly over into the playroom and laid her
down on the little bed by Mary Marie. Then she returned to the sewing
room.
[Illustration: The new dolly.]
[Illustration: “Without my dear friends.”]
“It seems lonesome without my dear friends,” she thought, “but I
believe they will all come to life again if I really need them. I
couldn’t expect to keep Fairly Flew all the time, for many other little
girls will need her.”
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I wish I could tell you about the good times she had making the
garments and gifts which were told about on the fairy’s paper; how Mary
Marie and the new baby came to life when Mary Frances was following
baby, and petted it, and held it in her lap even though it was nearly
as big as herself; how pleased Billy was with his airship doll; how
surprised and delighted and proud Aunt Maria was when she found out how
much Mary Frances knew; how Mary Frances did form a Knitting Club and
how the girls and a few boys made many, many useful garments for people
who needed them—but that would take another book as long as this one.
[Illustration: Proud Aunt Maria]
But I can give you the directions which were on the paper that the
Queen of All Fairies sent her by Fairly Flew, and you will find them in
the next chapter.
[Illustration: Mary Frances told me.]
Mary Frances told me this whole story herself, and asked me to write
this book so that you who read it may have some such pleasure as she
had in learning how to crochet and knit.