"Yes, indeed, we will have to build some stands for type, too, with the boxful you got for us," answered Ned.
"We Blue Birds spent all of our afternoon engaging editors to take charge of the pages," ventured Ruth, who thought the Blue Birds had been quiet too long.
"You'll have to have all the pages ready to hand over to me by the tenth of October, you know; I'll need about three days for making linotype and then you can have the proofs back," said Uncle Ben.
"Oh, we will have everything ready long before the tenth," laughed Mrs. Talmage.
"From the way the Blue Birds are working, I should say that each one will have about five hundred pages written by that time," added Aunt Selina, smilingly.
"In that case, we will have to have each page add a notice at the bottom: 'To be continued in our Nest.'"
"There! my page is all done!" exclaimed Ruth, holding a sheet of paper away to admire the neatly written notes for "Household Hints."
"Mine's done, too, but I'm going to copy it over to-night to make it look neat as a pin," said Norma.
"Did you get any new candy recipes?" asked Dot eagerly.
The little Blue Bird who took charge of the "Candy Kettle" smacked her lips emphatically.
"I haven't started to ink the pencil lines of my cut-out paper furniture, but that won't take long," explained Dot. "I started with the kitchen because Mumzie said no good housekeeper would furnish a parlor if she had no kitchen equipment."
"I did my drawing lesson, but I haven't written the lesson telling the children how to make the picture," said Betty, with a worried look toward Mrs. Talmage.
"Plenty of time, dear," soothed Mrs. Talmage. "You know Uncle Ben said we would have until the tenth of the month."
The Blue Birds were gathered in the cherry-tree Nest after school, one day, waiting for the signal from the Publishing House which would tell them they might run over and inspect the huge pieces of machinery that had arrived that day from New York. Ike and Simon had to help the three truckmen as they placed rollers under the press and rolled it from the truck and into the room. The stitcher, cutter and other pieces were not so unwieldy to move and place. At noon, Ned saw the men struggling with the press and so refrained from going near the house, but he told the other Bobolinks, and immediately after school was dismissed a crowd of boys ran to their shop.