“Yes, that’s fine, but I guess you don’t know how much trouble it is to make the chairs stick together. Well, I’ll do a set or two, and stain the wood green, and you girls can make green satin cushions for ’em.”
“All right,” said Kitty; “I’ll help you with the cushions, and then you can help me with the scrap-books. And, King, we can paint things green—baskets, you know.”
“Yes, and tin cans, and old tea-chests, and then tie ribbons on ’em! No, thank you, I won’t do any of that kind of stuff.”
“Well, but pretty little baskets would be all right,” said Marjorie, laughing; “and flower pots, too.”
“Oh, yes,” said Delight; “little flower pots with just a hyacinth or a fern in them. Then paint the pot green, and there you are!”
“That isn’t so worse,” said King; “and I might make a few window boxes.”
“Oh, they would be lovely!” exclaimed Miss Larkin. “They’d look so pretty under our tree. We could get a couple like those you have, and fill them, and I’m sure they’d sell well.”
“I shall make some penwipers,” said Kitty. “You just cut a leaf like a maple-leaf out of green leather or kid, and then cut two or three leaves just like it of green felt, and fasten them together at the stem.”
“And make some little lamp-shades,” said Delight; “I mean, candle-shades. They’re lovely of green paper—Mother has some.”
“I can’t make them neatly enough,” objected Kitty. “You girls make me some of those, and I’ll make some orange candies for you. I’ll cut you out some orange baskets, if you want me to—made out of the orange-skins, you know.”