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"No; I hev to bring in wages and help ma with the washin's." "I'll teach you, Amarilly," she said impulsively. "I'm sure I'm more proficient in those branches than the Boarder." "He sez," admitted Amarilly, "that it won't take him long to larn me all he knows; but you see " She spoke with delicate hesitancy and evident embarrassment.
We'll have a door cut through it into the hall, too, says she, 'an' isn't there a closet just like it overhead? If we can get a plumber here they're such slippery customers he might as well put in two bathrooms as one, while he's about it, an' you shan't do my great washin's any more without some good set-tubs. An' Mrs.
She's the lady what lives in Bachelor's Row and takes in boarders and washin's now, Johnny, you stop a-tuggin' at my skirts, will ye? You've started the gethers a'ready. She ain't exactly a bachelor herself, but she's next to it a widder woman. He! he!" Mrs. Hemphill's laughter was so much like the "crackling of thorns under a pot" as to be far from pleasant. Joyce hastened to speak.
Though the laundry oh, lor'!" and she rubbed her nose till it grew scarlet, "what of it, Mr. Beecot, I do ask?" "Have you enough money to pay a year's rent?" "Yes, me and Bart have saved one 'undred between us. Rent and furniture and taxes can come out of it, sure. And my washin's what I call washin'," said Deborah, emphatically; "no lost buttings and tored sheets and ragged collars.
She 'lowed he was p'tendin'. He throwed his head up like he was big-feelin'. It ruffled her that anybody should be big-feelin' over a pore widder-woman that took in days' washin's, and had a pack o' triflin' boys that et her out o' house and home.
"They wash out a sight of dust!" growled Lynn Taps, from the Massachusetts shoe district; "but I never could git one of 'em to put up an ounce on a game they jest play by 'emselves, an' keep all their washin's to home."
"I can't git to go to school till the boys hev more larnin'. I hev to work here mornin's and help ma with the washin's in the arternoon. Mebby, arter a little, I kin git into some night-school." A stage-hand working near by overheard this conversation and displayed instant interest in the subject of Amarilly's schooling. "Couldn't you git off Saturday arternoons?" he asked.
"Work like a dog all my life, an' save all my wages, an' I wouldn't have half as much as we got to-night." "Dish washin's about your measure, an' you couldn't get more'n twenty a month an' board. Your figgers is 'way off, but your point is well taken. Let them that likes it, work. I rode range for thirty a month when I was young an' foolish. Well, I'm older, an' I ain't ridin' range."
Drawing on a worn coat Ellen moved toward the door; when, however, her hand was on the knob, she turned and called over her shoulder: "The washin's soakin' in the tubs in the shed. You can hang it out if you like." Lucy waited until she saw the angular figure wend its way to the barn. Then she broke into a laugh. "The old fox! She did get me here to work for her," she murmured aloud.
"In many of the windows there is a box of flowers, or of kitchen herbs to make the broth savory." "It wasna so i' the auld days. It was aye washin's clappin' aboon the stanes. Noo, mony o' the mithers hang the claes oot at nicht. Ilka thing is changed sin' I was a wean an' leevin' i' the auld Guildhall, the bairnies haen Bobby to lo'e, an' no' to be neglectet."
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