Form the chain into 6 flat loops and sew on left side of turban, using gray yarn in a zephyr or darning needle.
As soon as it was finished, Mary Frances put the turban on Mary Marie. Then she put the scarf which matched it around the dolly’s neck.
“Doesn’t she look sweet!” she exclaimed. “I’ll let you all kiss her.”
“Oh, excuse—!” began Crow Shay, but he never finished the sentence, for there came a voice at the door. It was Katie’s voice.
[Illustration: “Doesn’t she look sweet!”]
“Miss Mary Frances! You haven’t been out at all to-day!” she said. “Your mother wouldn’t like that.”
Mary Frances ran to the door. “Why, Katie, that’s so! I must go out. I’ll get ready right away. I’ve been doing some crocheting.”
“That’s fine,” Katie said. “I wish I knew how to crochet.”
“Maybe I can teach you some time after I learn more myself,” said Mary Frances.
“I should love to learn.” Katie looked pleased. “Well, I must be about my work now,” she added, and went downstairs again.
When Mary Frances turned back to the sewing table nothing was to be seen but the empty rocking-chair and the knitting bag.
“Oh, dear,” she thought, “where can everybody be?”
She lifted the bag. Underneath was Mary Marie just as she had dressed her.
She put her hand into the bag and found Wooley Ball and the Yarn Baby, but could not find Crow Shay.
“What is the little rascal hiding for?” she wondered.
“Look in the chest of yarns,” said Wooley Ball.
Mary Frances opened the lid. Out popped Crow Shay’s little round head.
“So scared was I, I thought I’d die; So ran and hid— That’s why! That’s why!”
“And Fairly Flew,” asked Mary Frances; “where is she?”
“She’s gone! She’s gone! Been gone before; But she’ll come back Some more, some more,”
promised Crow Shay, and the little girl went happily out to play.
FOR DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING KNITTED ARTICLES SHOWN IN THIS ILLUSTRATION SEE SHOPPING BAG—242 CROCHETED HAND BAG—248 CROCHETED PURSE—255 CROCHETED WOOL FLOSS SCARF—84 CROCHETED TOQUE OR CAP—93]
THE next morning, after breakfast, Mary Frances hurried to her room, hoping to have another delightful lesson.
“Aunt Maria will be so surprised to see what I’ve done,” she whispered. “And mother will be so pleased.”
“You surely will surprise them,” said the Yarn Baby, “and if I am not mistaken we will have to work with all our might to get everything ready by the time they come home.”