"I forgot all about bringing anything to put them in.

You take a pinch on their wings until I make a poke." Mrs.Comstock removed her apron, tearing off the strings.

She unfastened and stepped from the skirt of her calico dress.

With one apron string she tied shut the band and placket.

She pulled a wire pin from her hair, stuck it through the other string, and using it as a bodkin ran it around the hem of her skirt, so shortly she had a large bag.