He----" "Girls! girls!" cried Aunt Theresa; and we went to sleep.
Soon after we returned from our visit to the Bullers, Eleanor and I resolved to prove the benefit we had reaped from Aunt Theresa's instructions by making ourselves some dresses of an inexpensive stuff that we bought for the purpose.
How well I remember the pattern! A flowering creeper, which followed a light stem upwards through yard after yard of the material.

We had picked to pieces certain old bodies which fitted us fairly, and our first work was to lay these patterns upon the new stuff, with weights on them, and so to cut out our new bodies as easily as Matilda (whose directions we were following) had prophesied that we should.

When these and the sleeves were accomplished (and they looked most business-like), we began upon the skirts.

We cut the back and the front breadths, and duly "sloped" the latter.

Then came the gores.