How does that strike you ?"
Roger nodded. "It hits me all right. I was thinking of a curve
instead of a right angle, but the right angle will be easier to make.
Go ahead."
So the right angle was decided on and James proceeded to cut it.
Roger, meanwhile, had been sorting out the wood he needed for a chair
of another pattern.
"I wish Dorothy would heave in sight," he growled as he piled some half
inch thick strips in one heap. "She told me she'd tell me all she knew
about chair legs when I reached this stage of proceedings."
"She will," answered a cheerful voice, and gray-eyed Dorothy appeared
from the house. "I felt in my bones that you'd be beginning this lot
this afternoon, so I ambled over to see if I could help in any way."
"Keep right on ambling till you reach this end of the platform and tell
me whether you said that chair legs could be made of this stripping or
whether I'll have to get solid pieces, square-ended, you know, joist or
scantling or whatever it's called."
"Strips will do, only you'll have to use two for each leg. Nail them
together at right angles. It will make a two-sided leg, but it will be
plenty strong enough, though perhaps not truly handsome.
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