"Oh, I haven't written it out. It's just told in pictures with 1, 2, 3, through 9 at the head of each page. They'll understand."
"Do you see what an opportunity the different colored cambric gives?" said Helen. "Sometimes Della uses colored pictures or she paints them, and then she makes the background harmonize with the coloring of the figures."
"Why couldn't you make a whole book of my silhouettes?" demanded Ethel Brown.
"Bully!" commended James.
"You can work out all sorts of topics in these books, you see," Della went on. "There are all the fairy stories to illustrate and 'Red Riding Hood,' and the 'Bears,' and when you get tired of making those you can have one about 'The Wonders of America,' and put in Niagara."
"And the Rocky Mountains," said Tom.
"And the Woolworth Building," suggested Ethel Brown.
"And a cotton field with the negroes picking cotton," added Ethel Blue.
"There wouldn't be any trouble getting material for that one," said Helen.
"Nor for one on any American city. I've got one started that is going to show New York from the statue of Liberty to the Jumel Mansion and the Van Cortland House, with a lot of other historical buildings and skyscrapers and museums in between."