LILL’S BRIGHT IDEA. 37

Max carried Trotty up into the attic, and fixed his chair by
the printing-table. Nate came over, and Nita was coming if
she could, and they cut the book out in excellent spirits.
First, they made the binding, — of red paper, with gold stars.
Lill said they had better put that away till they were ready
for it, because it would tumble. So they put it away. Then
they cut out the pages, out of white printing-paper that Lill
had bought for three cents a sheet. They had twelve sheets.
They folded each sheet up six times, and so made twelve
pages of it. Trotty thought they should print a great deal
more than twelve times twelve pages. Lill said they would
see.

“ What shall we begin with?’ asked Nate. They looked
the stories over, to see what they should begin with. Some
of them were printed, and some of them were written.
Some of them were for big children, and some of them were
for little children. Some were about boys, and some about
girls. They did n’t know what to do.

“Let ’s print all the girls at once, and all the boys at tho
same time,” said Trotty. :

“T would n’t,” said Nita, who had just come in.

“O yes,” said Trotty.

Now the first story Lill took up proved to be a boy’s story,
so they began with that. It was a written one, so they
began to print it.

Lill was very patient. Max came in too, and helped ; but
it was slow work. When the supper-bell rang they had a
page and a half set up.