"Oh, quite! Let us have it by all means."
Arthur lifted it out, and laid his novel T square as carefully as he could on the cardboard, and then drew a bold line with his pencil from end to end.
"Now another," said his mother.
When he had measured and drawn two lines both ways, he proceeded to cut the sheet into nine squares, which turned out to measure nearly ten inches by seven each.
Nellie sat by with her thimble on, and Christina had been also invited to tea to-night, specially to help. Ada quickly seized upon a piece, threaded her needle with pink silk, and taking one end of the pink ribbon was the first to set off binding. Arthur passed Christina another piece, and she took the other end of Ada's pink ribbon.
"How close ought the stitches to be?" asked Ada.
"About a quarter of an inch; do not backstitch it, they will look better on both sides if you do not."
"Here's a piece for you, Nell," said Arthur, cutting off another, "and one for mamma."
"But there are Netta and Isabel," said Nellie.
"Can they do it well enough?" asked Ada.