"Roger cut a slip ten inches long and four inches wide"
Corner for Blotter Pad
"Where's this professor of leather?" called Tom as he heard Roger's steps on the attic stairs.
"And brass," added Roger grandly as he appeared in the doorway.
"No one disputes the brass," returned Tom, and Roger roared cheerfully and called out "Bull's-eye!"
"Now, then," began Roger seating himself at the head of the table, "with apologies to the president I'll call this solemn meeting to order—that is, as much order as there can be with Dicky around."
Dicky was even then engaged in trying to make a hole in Ethel Blue's shoe with a leather punch, but he was promptly suppressed and placed between the Ethels before his purpose was accomplished.
"You've got him interned there," remarked James, using a phrase that was becoming customary in the newspaper accounts of the care of prisoners.
"I'm going to start you people making corners for a big blotting pad," said Roger, "not because the orphans will want a blotting pad, but because they are easy to make and you can adapt the idea to lots of other articles."