. Little helpers . ip affairs of both. As the rag-bag yielded sails forboats, and covers for balls, and • bobs for kites, so did thewaste-paper basket yield colored paper wherewith to dress paperdolls, and stiff cards which made excellent cardboard furniture,not to mention those pieces of blank-on-both-sides writing paper,which could be cut into small sheets and envelopes. And if amonogram is really handsome, why shouldnot one person use it as well as another ? Johnny was beginning to be famousfor his kites, and as he was a warm-hearted and generous little boy, with alarge number of friends, h
. Little helpers . ip affairs of both. As the rag-bag yielded sails forboats, and covers for balls, and • bobs for kites, so did thewaste-paper basket yield colored paper wherewith to dress paperdolls, and stiff cards which made excellent cardboard furniture,not to mention those pieces of blank-on-both-sides writing paper,which could be cut into small sheets and envelopes. And if amonogram is really handsome, why shouldnot one person use it as well as another ? Johnny was beginning to be famousfor his kites, and as he was a warm-hearted and generous little boy, with alarge number of friends, he frequentlymade a kite to give away. Tiny wasalways ready to help him, and was partic-ularly handy at making the devices ofbright paper with which the kites were generally ornamented, and pasting them neatly on. When thekite was very large, she did even more than this, and Johnnynever gave one away, without explaining that Tiny had sharedin the making. They had been saving all the best paper of every sort lately. 42 LITTLE HELPERS. for the largest kite they had ever undertaken; it was so largethat it was already named the Monster, and it was stretched,half finished, upon the floor of the spare garret, where it wouldnot be disturbed. It was designed for a birthday present to oneof Johnnys very best friends, and everybody in the house wasinterested in it. It was to be pure white, with a pair of wings,and a birds head and tail, in brilliant red paper, pasted uponone side, and on the other, in large blue letters, the initials ofthe boy for whom it was intended. But, with the perversity of things in general, or ratherbecause it had been a very warm summer, and most of the poorauthors had been taking holidays as much as they could, thewaste-paper basket of late had not been worth the trouble ofemptying. So it was with no very great expectations that Johnny wentto it one Saturday morning to see if by chance there should bea rejected manuscript of sufficient length to satisfy the Mo
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