Then, standing up, he surveyed his work with a look of satisfaction, and said,
“There!”
He returned to the shop again. When he came to the door he opened it a very little way, and paused, calling out to Phonny, to know if the squirrel was anywhere near.
“No,” said Phonny, “come in.”
So he went in. The squirrel had run along the beams to the back part of the shop, and was nibbling about there among some blocks of wood.
“I have a great mind to feed him,” said Phonny. “He is hungry.”
“Well,” said Stuyvesant.
So Phonny took the ear of corn out of the trap, and breaking it into two or three pieces he carried the parts into the back part of the shop, and put them at different places on the beams. Then he crept back to his work again.
Stuyvesant went to work making his button. He selected a proper piece of wood, sawed it off of the proper length, and then shaped it into the form of a button by means of a chisel, working, in doing this, at the bench. As soon as this operation was completed, he took a large gimlet and bored a hole through the center of the button. He measured very carefully to find the exact center of the button, before he began to bore.