"It's an entirely new stitch to me, Bobs," she averred. "I don't think
I have ever before seen just this method employed." And she turned to
Stephen O'Mara. "Do you suppose, Mr. O'Mara," she asked, "that I might
learn it from the one who did this work for you? It's rather"--and her
head tilted to one side--"it's rather a pretty thing!"
Again they succumbed to mirth, and then Joe rose, bristling, and went
forward much as a gamecock might step out to do battle. He took the
cushion from the hands of the girls, who no longer had strength enough
even to hold it.
"If you are aiming to do any sewing around this camp," he stated, "you
can start in sewing on buttons. This kind of work is entirely too
nerve-wearing for amateurs."
He carried the cushion across the room and placed it, not where it had
been hidden by the deer-hide, but in colorful prominence against the
back of the chair. Long after he had crossed with Steve and Garry to
their tents he continued to explode with soft chuckles.
"I never did say," he defended himself, "that that sentiment was
strictly appropriate. I always stated that it was the best I could.
And as for my technique--well, either of you guys try it some time!
You just take a needleful of that yellow worsted and start tracking
across a couple of yards of red and pathless desert, and see where you
come out.
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