"Dicky will have to be interned at home if he isn't quiet." The president shook her head at the honorary member.
"First you go around the whole outline, tapping the nail gently, stroke by stroke, until the line of the design is completely hammered in."
"That isn't hard," said Tom. "Watch me."
"When the outline is made you take another wire nail that has been filed perfectly flat on the bottom and go over the whole background with it."
"I see, I see," cried Ethel Blue. "That makes the design stand out puffily and smooth against a sort of motheaten background."
"For eloquent description commend me to Ethel Blue," declared Margaret.
"She's right, though. You can make the moth holes of different size by using nails of different sizes. There are regular tools that come, too, with different pounding surfaces so it's possible to make quite a variety of backgrounds."
"This mothy one is pretty enough for me," declared Margaret.
"I don't much like that name for it, but it is pretty, just the same," insisted Roger. "When you've hammered down the background you take out the tacks and cut out your whole corner with this pair of shears that is made to cut metal. Then you fold over the backs just the way you folded over the paper to find the shape originally."
"It's not so terribly easy to bend," commented Ethel Blue.