The girls laughed appreciatively, and declared it was fine! Then Julie had an inspiration.
“Verny, I’ve got just the upholstery goods for the cushions!”
The captain smiled for she wondered if this scout had thought of the same material she had planned to use later.
“What is it?” demanded the other girls.
“We’ll take the burlap bag that came with Hepsy’s oats, die it with some vegetable or wood dye, and stuff it with excelsior that came packed about the pans.”
“Oh, Julie! How did you ever think of it?” cried Betty, admiringly.
“Just what I would have said, had you not found it out first!” declared Mrs. Vernon.
“But I don’t know where to find any dyes,” admitted the scout.
“I’ll tell you of some later. Now I wonder if you girls want to use the large barrel and copy my chair. Yours will be larger, however, as my chair was only a half-barrel size, you know.”
Being only too anxious to copy Verny’s chair, the four girls began work with a will. They took turns in sawing through the staves, even as they had been advised to do in building the hut, and this spared their muscles feeling lame or tired from the movement of the arm while sawing the hard wood.