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Down-stairs in the kitchen, Nancy, hurrying with her belated work, jabbed her dish-mop into the milk pitcher, and muttered Jerkily: "If playin' a silly-fool game about bein' glad you've got crutches when you want dolls is got ter be my way o' bein' that rock o' refuge why, I'm a-goin' ter play it I am, I am!" It was nearly seven o'clock when Pollyanna awoke that first day after her arrival.
"Well I wouldn't," put in the omnipresent Bobby. "Not if I had to eat after your manipulation of the dish-mop." "But we didn't come to do anything like that," wailed Lil. "Just the same we have got to do a part of the camp work," declared Mother Wit. "It all can't be shoved off onto Lizzie." "Let us arrange about that right here and now," suggested Mrs. Morse. "Oh, Mrs.
Pour the water through that, and then if any bits of food are in it they will stop there and not get into the drain; it's a great convenience, and one we never had when I was a little girl. So with the dish-mop; that goes into hot water where the hands do not like to go, and into cups and dishes where it would be much more trouble to take a cloth, as we used to do.
Without intending it, and without dreaming of copying the bushes of hair in Rossetti's pictures, Hester Jennings's sandy-coloured locks, not a good point in her personal appearance, were, as her great-grandmother would have cried in horror, more like a dish-mop than anything else.
The feminine member of the trio wields the dish-mop while the host dries the dishes, and the Dreamer before the fire luxuriates in the thought that his help is not needed. The talk on philosophy and religion does not make the host forget to warm sheets and blankets and put hot bricks in the beds to insure against the fast-gathering cold.
Dad and you and I will have the best times!" To accentuate her approval of Polly's premature plans, Eleanor swished the dish-mop wildly up and down in the soapy water, but the suds flew up lightly, as soapsuds will, and a bubble burst in Polly's eye. "Oo-h!
I keep it filled up with all the odds and ends of soap. When I wash the dishes, I just let the boiling water from the kettle flow through it. It makes water grand and soapy. Arthur made me that iron dish-rag and that dish-mop.” A sleepy cry came from the corner. Dicky swung across the room.
"There are better things than large salaries," said Jane, and her face looked sadly reminiscent. After all, the distinction of being the only one who had been on the brink of preparing matrimonial breakfasts was much. She felt that it would make early rising and early work endurable to her, although she was not an active young woman. "I will get a dish-mop and wash the dishes," said Eliza.
As it is, scald out the dish-mop, and put it away, and get the wire dish-washer, and a little household ammonia and sapolio, and some more very hot water in the dish-pan, and we will do these in a minute." Then she showed Margaret how to wash out her rinsing-pan well, and wipe it dry before hanging it on its nail.
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