Doctor Foster
is also ten inches high ([Fig. 154]). His head, with smiling face, is given in [Fig. 143]. His brown paper hands are cut like J ([Fig. 144]), and his black shoes like E ([Fig. 144]). He wears his trousers quite short, that they may not get wet in the famous Gloster puddle, or if they do they will dry quickly. The trousers are made of wrapping paper, double, of course, and pasted together at the edges after they have been adjusted. They are cut like [Fig. 155].
| Fig. 154—Doctor Foster. | Fig. 155—Doctor Foster's short trousers. |
CHAPTER XII
VISITING-CARD HOUSES
From old visiting cards you can build all the different houses and furniture seen in the accompanying illustrations.
