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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.
They know women ain't got no business trainin'. How do they know it? Because they've tried it over 'n' over, and every time they've come out ahead." The tears were dropping now, and Amarita walked hastily away to conceal them, and got down her dish-pan, although the table was not yet cleared. By the time she had turned from the sink again, a shadow of her hopefulness came wanly back.
The Dago Duke's tone was one of easy friendliness. "All you need, but don't forget the suspense is hard on Essie Tisdale." Mrs. Sylvanus Starr, who was indisposed, sat up in her robe de nuit of pink, striped outing-flannel and looked down into the street. "Pearline," she said hastily, "turn the dish-pan over the roast beef and cache the oranges.
As for the music, it was furnished by two very old men, relics of the days when there were contests in fiddling; a stout fellow of middle age, with cheeks swelled almost to bursting as he thundered out terrific blasts on a slide trombone; a youth who rattled two sticks on an overturned dish-pan in lieu of a drum, and a cornetist of real skill.
The washing process was simple enough. From the dish-pan which stood upon the hearth half full of dirty water and some of the breakfast dishes, she took a greasy dish-cloth, wrung it out carefully, and with it proceeded to wash, not untenderly, the festering heads, faces and fingers of her children, resorting from time to time to the dish-pan for a fresh supply of water.
When that bread was finally set to rise, Eurie dismissed Sallie from the dish-pan in disgust, with orders to sweep the room, if she could leave her apple long enough. THE next anxiety was the baby, who contrived to tumble himself over in his high chair, and cried loudly. Eurie ran. Dr. Mitchell was always so troubled about bumps on the head.
"Ain't you feelin' good?" her stepmother phlegmatically inquired from across the room, where she sat with a dish-pan in her lap, paring potatoes for supper. "No, ma'am," weakly answered Tillie. "Pop 'll be looking fur you out in the field." Tillie wearily closed her eyes and did not answer. Mrs. Getz looked up from her pan and let her glance rest for an instant upon the child's white, pained face.
To-morrow there would be several hundred dollars more, and the next day more, and so on always, and what was she doing, or what had she planned to do, to give proper direction to these tidal waves of wealth? She had bought a new dish-pan and ordered a door repaired! To be sure, it was very soon to begin to think of the expenditure of her income, but it was a question which could not be postponed.
"Just hang up that towel that has fallen down, Florence, and then we'll go downstairs and shut up the rest of the house; by that time Bubbles will be through her work, and we can all play till it is time to get dinner." Bubbles had just emptied her dish-pan and was about to scour the knives when they entered the kitchen. "Hurry up, Bubbles," said Dimple, "so we can all go out and play.
Kitty dropped her cup back into the dish-pan and stood looking at him, a good deal surprised. At last she said, "I'd like to, Tip, but I don't look decent to go anywhere. I've only this dress and my old hood." "I wouldn't mind that," said Tip. "I've only this awful old jacket either, but I mean to go. Hurry up the dishes, and let's go."
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