help it but t get back what he had already issued as fast as he could by working for it and thus he could issue it again so he went to work at once on mary s he first drew a plan of it under mary s direction at his desk at the window called the morning window in the sitting room i think every boy ought to have a desk or something of the kind in some convenient place in the sitting room where it is always and comfortable and have it provided with everything necessary for writing and drawing and doing other such work � that is i mean every boy that has intelligence and enough to take care of such a place and to keep it in order he might call it his office that was the name that john gave to his corner by the morning window by having such the for the execution of any literary work that he may have to do a boy will often employ himself in this way when without them he would do nothing of the kind and by thus himself he will make great improvement and acquire a facility in managing a pencil or a pen which will be of great service to him in his studies and in his general progress at school when john began to talk with mary about the the first thing he said was come to my and we will make a drawing of it so mary went with john to his office � and there john took out a pencil and a ruler and also his book of plans the ruler was a foot long and it had the inches and tenth of inches marked upon it john called it a scale i don t see what you it a scale for said who was standing by you can t weigh anything with it no said john it does not mean a scale for weighing it comes from the latin word which means ladder i don t think it is a ladder either said a john s in summer you can t climb up on anything by it no said john but don t you see all those little divisions along the edge they look something like the rounds of a long ladder that is the reason why they call it by a name that means ladder john asked mary how large her was to be she could not tell very well in feet and inches but she reached her hand up as high as she could and said she would like to have it as high as that or higher my climbing rose said she is already almost as high as my head and i am sure it would grow a great deal higher if it had a good it has not anything now but some old sticks and the rose is so heavy upon them that they are all ready to tumble down after as well as he could the dimensions that mary indicated john decided on making the six feet high and four feet wide he would have it formed he thought of two upright pieces for the sides and a number of cross bars to be nailed across � the bars to project a the few inches beyond the on each side he thought it would be sufficient to have the bars two inches wide and about six inches apart and to have the lowest one two feet from the ground as the was to be six feet high above the ground and as the side pieces ought to be driven down about one foot that would require them to be seven feet long john made his drawing in accordance with these first he drew the forms of the side pieces arranging them up and down the page and making them seven feet long and pointed at the lower ends and about three inches wide he placed them too three feet apart from inside to inside then he drew the cross bars he made them four feet long of course they projected three inches beyond the side pieces he placed the first cross piece four inches below the top of the side pieces and the next one six inches below that and the rest at the same distances from each other till he came within about three feet of the bottom of the side pieces which would john gay s work in summer make the lowest cross piece come two feet from the he made a little dot at each crossing of the cross pieces and the side pieces to represent the nail by which they were to be nailed together john drew his plan on what he called the scale of half an inch to a foot and he took so much pains to measure every part exactly and to rule hb lines neatly that the drawing when it was done presented a very and scientific appearance what a pretty it will be said mary � if you make it like that john began the work that day and worked upon the job an hour out the there was of course a great deal of to be done to get out so many pieces john proceeded with the work however very first selecting a smooth and straight board and it to the length of the cross pieces � four feet � and then dividing it by chalk lines into the requisite number of parts two inches wide each and finally working steadily with his saw until they were all cut out he made the the end pieces id the same way this was all he could do the first day the second day he bored the holes and then nailed the parts together he first softened the however by them red hot on a in the this was not taking the temper out as you might at first 