To make it firm upon the
ground, however, they sawed a piece of heavy plank a little larger than
the end upon which the box was to stand and nailed it on from the
inside.
When the high chair was done the boys complimented their co-workers on
the success of their first experiment.
"I hardly could have done it better myself," said Roger grandly.
All the high chairs were covered with blue and white cretonne to match
the blue and white of the dining room and the girls set to work to tack
on the outside covering and to cut out the covers of the small cushions
that were to make the seat and back comfortable. The cushions
themselves they had made from ticking filled with excelsior when they
had calculated the number of high chairs they must have.
The boys, meanwhile were constructing two chairs of quite different
build. One was a heavy chair for the hall or the veranda, its original
condition being a packing box a foot and a half deep, about twenty
inches wide and three or four feet long. This also was set on end, and
the other end and the cover were laid aside to be used in making the
seat and in shutting in the openings below the seat.
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