138 GRAY LADY AND THE BIRDS 
“All that we need, or that can help us with the story of 
the bird on its travels, is that large map of North and 
South America, for this will be a geography, as well as a 
bird, lesson. 
(A fine map of the western hemisphere having been 
the first thing that Gray Lady had given Miss Wilde for 
the use of the school at Foxes Corners, the little old one 
being out of date and indistinct.) 
“Clary, you may take charge of the pointer to-day and 
sit here by me, for this will be a rather long lesson, and you 
will need help with the binding of your iron-holder, for 
I’m afraid if you draw the stitches so very tight it will 
pucker and not lie flat and smooth like the model that Ann 
Hughes made. 
“And what work has Jacob given you boys for your 
penknives to do?” 
“Wooden spoons out of white wood,” answered Dave, 
“big strong ones such as’ll beat up cake and apple-sauce, 
and, when they’re shaped, we are to smooth them down 
fine with sandpaper. I’m going to give mine to my 
mother; she broke hers yesterday, the handle snapped 
right in two. She says the bought spoons are sawn out 
crossgrain, any which way. There was an old man who 
used to come down from the charcoal camp with wooden 
spoons and butter-scoops and hickory baskets, and he 
sold lots of ’em all through the town, but he died last 
winter.” 
“Then surely wooden spoons and butter-scoops will be 
very good things for the Kind Hearts’ Club to make for 
its Christmas sale, and we shall be interfering with nobody, 
for that is one of the things that we must remember when 
