"How are you going to fasten that seat so it won't let the sitter down
on the floor?" inquired Ethel Blue, as James explained what he was
going to do.
"Do you see these cleats, ma'am? These are each a foot long. I nail
one of these standing up straight at each edge of the sides and the
back--six of them altogether. Then I lay three other cleats across
their tops--thusly."
"O, you've made a sort of framework that will support the seat! I get
that!" exclaimed Ethel Blue.
"All you have to do now is to nail your seat boards on to those
horizontal cleats and it's as firm as firm can be."
"Aren't you going to do something with those sides--those arms, or
whatever you call them?" inquired Ethel Brown. "They seem sharp and
uncomfortable and in the way to me."
Both boys studied the chair seriously before answering. Then they took
a pencil and paper and consulted.
"I should think it would look pretty well to cut out a right angle on
each aide," suggested James. "That would leave a sort of wing effect
like a hall porter's chair, only not so high, and at the same time it
would make an arm to rest your elbow on.
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