Stitch after stitch, Amy is embroidering(刺绣) her hand-made napkin.
"Well, Amy, how are you getting on?" asked Lizzy, whose 1 seemed to fly over her work.
"Not very fast," replied Amy. At the same time, she didn't 2 her eyes, "I have finished one side."
"One side?" said Lizzy, "I'm now at the fourth side!
"I know that I am 3but, I'll try my best." said Amy.
"As I sew(缝) so fast," said Lizzy, "I'm sure to have finished my napkin 4 the bell rings for dinner. I'll run to see if the roses are out in the garden." Lizzy 5 went out of the room, leaving her work on a chair.
Amy also longed for the flowers, but she kept on sewing and finished the 6 side of her napkin before her sister came back.
"Ah, you slow little thing!" cried Lizzy "You will never 7 I'll have time to go to my room to put up my picture.
Off went joyful Lizzy. Amy went on with her work. Before her sister 8 the room again, the third side of her napkin was done.
"Why not finish your sewing first?" said Amy. "It must be near the time for 9.
"Oh! I can finish it in two minutes. I want to read that funny storybook." "What if 10 can't?"
"No fear of that!" cried Lizzy, "No one is so likely to be as a slow little thing like you!"
Poor Amy made no 11. Quietly she worked on. Lizzy was soon deep in her story and she forgot all about her 12, till suddenly the sound of the bell woke her up.
"Can it be dinner time?" she cried. "My napkin is not hemmed! And yours..."
"It is just 13" said Amy, as she quietly put it away.
"This is like 'The Rabbit and the Turtle(龟)', the faster, but not the winner, "thought Lizzy, who, though 14, had enough sense to take lesson: The quick may have the start, but the slow may 15 in the end.
