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    THE
    MARY FRANCES
    KNITTING AND CROCHETING
    BOOK

    OR
    ADVENTURES AMONG THE
    KNITTING PEOPLE


    BY
    JANE EAYRE FRYER


    Illustrated by
    JANE ALLEN BOYER
    and from
    ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS


    THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
    PHILADELPHIA




    COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
    JANE EAYRE FRYER

    ————CAUTION————
    The entire contents of this book are protected
    by copyright, and all persons are
    warned not to reproduce the text, in whole
    or in part, or any of the illustrations without
    permission of the publishers.




PREFACE


DEAR GIRLS:

After reading about Mary Frances’ many adventures among the Kitchen
People, and the Thimble People, and the Garden People, and with the
Doll Family and the Brave Family, in the Mary Frances books—perhaps you
thought that no girl, not even Mary Frances, could find any more funny
little fairy helpers right in her own home.

But Mary Frances