"Where did you get your pattern?" asked Tom who also was a jig sawyer.
Jumping Jack
"I took an old one of Dicky's that was on the downward road and pulled it to pieces so that I could use each part for a pattern. I cut out ever so many of each section. Then I spent one afternoon painting legs and arms and jackets and caps, and Ethel Blue painted the faces for me. I'm not much on expression except my own, you know."
"Have you put them together yet?"
"Dorothy has been tying the pull strings for me this afternoon and I'm going to do the glueing now while you people are learning baskets."
"James ought to do the glueing for you," suggested Margaret in spite of James's protesting gestures.
Roger laughed.
"I wouldn't be so mean as to ask him," he said. "He's stuck up enough for one lifetime, I suspect."
"I've been jigging, too," confessed Tom.