WORK AND PLAY
Reading edition
Mother made Betty’s everyday dress.
She bought a pattern and laid it on the cloth.
She cut it out and basted it.
When it was basted, Mother called Betty.
“Come, Betty,” said Mother. “I want to fit your dress.”
“You are a dressmaker today, Mother,” said Betty. “I’m a fine lady that has come to have a dress fitted.”
“Then you must stand very still, Betty, while I fit your dress.”
When the dress was fitted, Betty said, “Now I’ll play I’m a dressmaker. This is my shop. Come, Bobby. Be a fine lady. Let me make you a dress.”
“I don’t want to be a fine lady,” said Bobby. “I don’t want a dress. I’m a tailor. This is my shop.”
“You can’t make a suit of clothes,” said Betty.
“I can make an apron,” said Bobby. “See, Teddy-bear is a shoemaker. I’ll make the shoemaker an apron.”
Mother gave them some pieces of cloth.
She gave each a needle and thread.
They played Bobby was a tailor and Betty a dressmaker.
For study and play:
When I was a dressmaker, a dressmaker, a dressmaker, When I was a dressmaker, a dressmaker was I. It was this way, and that way, And this way, and that way, Oh, when I was a dressmaker, a dressmaker was I. When I was a tailor, a tailor, a tailor, When I was a tailor, a tailor was I. It was this way, and that way, And this way, and that way, Oh, when I was a tailor, a tailor was I.
“Sing, sing!” “What shall I sing?” “The cat ran away with my apron string!”
Game:
Thread the needle to begin, Sometimes out and sometimes in. Tailor’s blind and cannot see, So thread the tailor’s needle.