We unriveted the handle, and then I held the bottom edge of the saucepan to the grindstone, while Rectus turned, and we soon ground the bottom off.

This left us a deep brass band, quite big enough for a crown, and as the top edge was rounded off, it could be turned over on a person's head, so as to sit quite comfortably.

With a cold-chisel I cut long points in what would be the upper part of the crown, and when I had filed these up a little, the crown looked quite nobby.

We finished it by punching a lot of holes in the front part, making them in the form of stars and circles.

With something red behind these, the effect would be prodigious.
At ten o'clock, sharp, the next morning, we were all at the queen's house.