Margaret thought she could find it and went out of the room to search for one among her Mother’s things. While she was gone Sir Bodkin and the One-Eyed Fairies tried to bend and twist and turn as they had just seen their little mistress doing a short time before. They looked very funny as they tried to do these exercises. They were so stiff. [Illustration] “Is this it?” Margaret asked running back into the room and holding up a white bone stiletto. Sir Bodkin turned around quickly to look. Margaret was laughing to see how funny they all looked doing stunts. “Yes,” answered he, “that is what we are looking for. Where do you want the eyelets placed, My Lady?” Margaret took up the new white middy blouse to show the King the slit down the front. [Illustration] “This makes it easier to put my head through and has to be laced with a lacing after I slip it on,” she said. “Three eyelets on a side would be about right, I think, don’t you?” he asked Margaret. “Yes,” said she. Then he told her to measure, with the tape measure, the eyelet places evenly apart on each side of the slit. She marked them with a lead-pencil dot one-half inch from the edge. “Now we are ready to punch the holes,” he said. [Illustration] Margaret took the stiletto and pushed the sharp point up through the two thicknesses of goods where each dot was marked. She turned it around and around to make the hole evenly shaped. “Some like to punch from the right side down, but I prefer to punch from the wrong side up,” Sir Bodkin said. When the holes were ready Sir Bodkin told Margaret to get some fine white twist or embroidery cotton. Calling a large-eyed Stitcher, the King had Margaret harness him ready to begin. “Have your stiletto ready and keep pushing it through the eyelet as you go along whipping the edge. This keeps the shape nice and round,” said the King. “Now, sir, do your work,” he then said to the Stitcher, who stepped from the wrong side through to the edge of the hole and sang: “First run around the edge, We take a little run. Then over it and over it The stitching is done. Step over to the wrong side, Then through to the right Not far from the edge, And pull the thread tight. Then over again, And so on, you see, Keeping stitches as tiny And close as can be.” [Illustration: Making eyelets] Every few whipping-stitches Margaret would leave Stitcher sticking in his tracks on the edge and take up the stiletto with her right fingers and put it through the eyelet from the wrong side. This kept the shape round. “When you have gone around the eyelet edge, step through to the wrong side and fasten the thread,” said Sir Bodkin.