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Updated: June 3, 2025
Stanton did not come home to dinner, we made a picnic of our noon meal on Mondays, and all thoughts and energies were turned to speed the washing. No unnecessary sweeping or dusting, no visiting nor entertaining angels unawares on that day it was held sacred to soap suds, blue-bags, and clotheslines. The children, only, had no deviation in the regularity of their lives.
The boys were talking gravely and looked gloomy. What those men had put up with! And perhaps their hands or feet would mortify and have to be cut off. Each boy behaved as if he were bearing his share of their sufferings, and they talked in a manly way and in gruff voices. "Be off with you, bull!" they called to Pelle. They were not fond of Blue-bags for the moment.
The boys were talking gravely and looked gloomy. What those men had put up with! And perhaps their hands or feet would mortify and have to be cut off. Each boy behaved as if he were bearing his share of their sufferings, and they talked in a manly way and in gruff voices. "Be off with you, bull!" they called to Pelle. They were not fond of Blue-bags for the moment.
"I can bear a sting or two of a bee without getting myself painted up with blue-bags. Dock leaves is good enough for me." "And there aren't a dock left in the garden," said Peter. "You found fault with me for not pulling the last up."
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