“I’ll show you something else you can do with a wooden shoe,” she told the Brownies. “Watch!”
Picking up the wooden shoe that Vevi had lost she carefully set it down in the shallow water.
“See, a boat!” she laughed.
The wooden shoe turned slowly around in the sluggish water. Then toe forward, it began to drift lazily away.
“Hey, get it quick!” cried Vevi in alarm.
“Oh, it won’t sail far,” laughed Hanny.
She was right too, because in just a minute the shoe snagged on a stick and was held fast.
“Say, that’s fun, sailing boats!” cried Vevi. “Where is the other shoe?”
“On your foot, stupe!” laughed Jane.
The joke certainly was on Vevi, for in the excitement of watching the “boat” she had forgotten that its mate still was on her left foot.