We folded the breadths into three parts; we took a third at one end, and two-thirds at the other, and folded the slope accordingly.

It became quite exciting.
"Who would have thought it was so easy ?" said I.
Eleanor was almost prone upon the table, cutting the gores with large scissors which made a thoroughly sempstress-like squeak.
"The higher education fades from my view with every snip," she said, laughing.

"Upon my word, Margery, I begin to believe this sort of thing _is_ our vocation.

It is great fun, and there is absolutely no brain wear and tear." The gores were parted as she spoke, and (to do us justice) were exactly the shape of the tarlatan ones Aunt Theresa had cut.

But when we came to put them together, they wouldn't fit without turning one of them the wrong side out.