"You'll need eight spokes sixteen inches long and one nine inches long"
"Sharpen them to a point. Have you put them through so they make a cross with the arms of even length? Then put the single short piece through on one arm—no, not way through, James; just far enough to catch it."
"That's pretty solid just as it is," commented Tom with his head on one side.
"Nevertheless, you must wrap it with a piece of raffia. Watch me; lay your raffia at the left side of the upright arm and bring it across from left to right. Now pass it under the right hand arm and over the bottom arm and under the left hand arm. Instead of covering the wrapping you've just done you turn back and let your bit of raffia go over the left hand arm."
"This weaving process makes the spokes stand out like wheel spokes"
"That binds down the beginning end of the raffia," cried Helen.
"Exactly. That's why you do it. Go under the bottom arm and over the right hand arm behind the top arm."
"Back at the station the train started from," announced Margaret.