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"The wimmen does the washin', ye know, Si, up where we live," said Shorty, "'n' I don't quite like the notion o' doin' that kind o' workt, but I can't jest see how we're goin' to git out of it. It's got to be done, that's sure!" On the bank of the stream they quickly threw off their clothes for a bath. Si cast rueful glances at his nether garments as he laid them on the ground.

"Mother says that she'll board you, an' see to your clothes, an' do your washin', for two dollars'n a half a week, an' I think it would be awful nice for us all to live together."

When you've got to burn your pan blue-black twice a day, and out of a shovelful of gravel wash down to the one wee speck of flour gold, why, that's washin', that's what it is. Tell you what, I'd sooner follow a pocket than eat." "And you would sooner fight than do either." Bishop stopped to consider. He weighed himself with care equal to that of retaining the one wee speck of flour gold.

On washin' days the woman of the house throws the dirty clothes and a piece of soap into a tub, and electricity heats the water, rubs and cleanses the clothes, shoves 'em along and rings 'em through an electric ringer, and dries 'em in a electric dryin' oven, and then irons 'em by an electric ironin' machine.

"Course we have," he answered, "but I didn't know you was goin' to have company." "Neither did we. But we could stand a clean table-cloth, even at that." "I've got somethin' to do besides changin' tablecloths every day." "Every day! Every Thanksgivin' Day, you mean. This one " "Now, look-a-here, Cap'n Shad; you know well as I do that Sarah J. never come to do the washin' last week.

"I'll explain, if you'll only hold your tongues, and not look so scared like." "No, Ruby; no, lad, you must change yer clothes first," said the smith, in a tone of authority; "why, the fire makes you steam like a washin' biler. Come along with me, an' I'll rig you out." "Ay, go hup with 'im, Ruby. Bless me, this is the most amazin' hincident as ever 'appened to me. Never saw nothink like it."

I knew it was right out there, anywhere, all around the cabin, but there was always the bread to set, the scrubbin' and the washin' and the work that was never done. I used to be plumb sick at times, jes' to get out into it all, especially in the spring when the songs of the birds drove me most clean crazy.

If the kind o' frocks she likes to wear can't be done up at home and yourn too, what's more the washin' ought to be put out. There's money enough, and some of it ought to be spent for the use o' the ladies as is ladies!

"'But, says I, 'maybes ye wad be the better o' kennin' that the kye's eatin' your washin' up on the loan. I saw Provost Weir's muckle Ayreshire halfway through wi' yer best quilt, says I. "She flung up her hands. "'Save us! she cries; 'could ye no hae said that at first?

Stefana found him washin' his face 'free greatest' this mornin', so she let him .Quick, shut your ears! He's goin' off again!" 'But, this time, Miss Theodosia heard, unalarmed. To her own surprise, she listened almost enjoyingly. To be able to make a noise like that! The sheer vitality and youth of it compelled admiration.