If you go too fast, you're very likely to snip off your strips; and if you go too slow, somebody else will beat you.
Hurry up, Ruth, you're going evenly, but you'll never get there at that rate! Oh, hold up, Harry! if you go so fast you'll snip it off.

You're terribly close to one edge, now! Ah, there you go! one strip is chopped right off.

Well, never mind, my boy, stand here by me, and watch the others.

What, Tom out, too?
Well, well, Tom, the more haste the less speed! Careful, Midget, you'll be out in a minute.

There you go! Out it is, for Mehitabel! Well, we have three still in the running.