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When they were dry, Nagami was taught to add a rim to her basket, by sewing it over and over as in the picture. Then Akoko said, "Good, my little Bird-Singer, you have done well, you have made some old black roots into a beautiful basket." N.B. The Guide will remember that rattan and raffia can be used for this when it is impossible to get spruce roots and willow bark.
"Come, little Nagami, my Bird-Singer, you are ten years old, it is time you learned to make baskets. I made my first when I was but eight," said Mother Akoko proudly, for she was the best basket-maker on the river. So they took a sharp stick, and went into the woods.
And less likely things have happened. Indeed, Jerry Blunt is engaged in training a young bullfinch as a wedding-present, though nobody can induce him to say for whom. But people cannot help shrewdly guessing, when they remember that Theo gave away the first bird-singer Jerry presented to her to Mrs. Vesey, as a Northbourne keepsake, when she left the Vicarage. And the Carnegy boys?
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