"Why couldn't we use our stenciling designs?"
"You could, if they are the right size. That star pattern you put oh a doll's skirt would be just the ticket—just one star for each corner."
"We might put U. S. C. in each corner."
"Or U. in one corner and S. in another, and C. in a third and a star or something in the fourth."
"Or the initials of the person you give it to."
"We've got the size of the corner piece as it is when it's unfolded and with its design on it, all drawn on this piece of paper. Now you tack your sheet of brass on to a block of wood and lay a sheet of carbon paper over it and your design on that and trace ahead."
"I see, I see," commented Margaret. "When you take it off, there you have the size of your corner indicated and the star or whatever you're going to ornament it with, all drawn in the right place."
"Exactly. Now we tackle the brass itself."
"It seems to me we ought to have some tools for that."
"A light hammer and a wire nail—that's all. See the point of this nail? It has been filed flat and rather dull. I made enough for everybody to have one—not you, sir," and he snatched away one of them from Dicky just as that young man was about to nail Ethel Brown's dress on to the edge of her chair.