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"You go long, you Bob," said Aunt Judy, seizing a lock of his wool between her thumb and finger, "let me catch you not milking the heifer, and I’ll crack you." Again there was the sound of laughter, and this time Judy dropped her dishcloth, while Katy sprang up, saying, "’Tis, I know ’tis; any way, I’ll walk round thar as if for a little airin’, and can see for myself."
But Miss Grundy made no objections, and when the last dishcloth was wrung dry, and the last iron spoon put in its place, Mary bounded joyfully away to the woods, where she found Jenny, who embraced her in a manner which showed that she had not been forgotten.
"My dear," said I, "you are driving me upon delicate ground. Would you have your husband appear in public with that most opprobrious badge of the domestic furies, a dishcloth, pinned to his coat-tail? It is coming to exactly the point I have always predicted, Mrs. Crowfield: you must write yourself. I always told you that you could write far better than I, if you would only try.
"What's this smell, Martha?" she asked at the kitchen door, "what is burning?" "Oh, it's only a dishcloth as was drying and caught fire, mum," answered the servant. "Only! What do you mean?" cried the mistress, angrily. "Do you wish to burn the house down?" Martha stood with her arms akimbo, on her thin, dough-pale face the most insolent of grins, her teeth gleaming, and her eyes wide.
"You ain't taking long to try it out, are you?" His face wore an ugly sneer. "They say there's no time like the present." "Are you going to wash up them things?" "No." There was a moment's silence while he held her eyes with his. Then, very slowly and deliberately he got up, poured some boiling water into a pan and placed it, together with a ragged dishcloth, on the table.
Not an urchin put in an appearance at the small red brick building on the turnpike. Mr. Pinkham, the school-master, waited an hour for the recusants, then turned the key in the lock and went home. Dragged-looking women, with dishcloth or dustpan in hand, stood in door-ways or leaned from windows, talking in subdued voices with neighbors on the curb-stone.
He grinned and fished around on a shelf for a dishcloth. Having found it he stationed himself beside her and took the dishes one by one as she finished with them. "Your name is Markham, isn't it?" she asked. "Yes how did you know?" he asked in surprise. She indicated a packing case in the corner which was addressed in letters six inches high. "Oh," he said. "Of course." "You're the Mr.
The bedroom was in the front of the house, and the rasping noise she was making as she scratched away with the edge of an iron spoon, kept her from hearing anything else. So when the door into the kitchen suddenly opened it gave her such a start that she dropped the dishcloth into the woodbox. Mrs. Saggs sniffed suspiciously.
Every time I went out of the kitchen door I'd find a filthy rag of dishcloth hung over the handle, and they smeared much worse things than that over the door and whose doing was it? I never told father; he would have been so enraged he would have torn the whole house down to find the guilty person. No, father had enough to contend against already. But now: 'Ah, here comes Stolpe Hurrah!
It's jest as well to be on the safe side." Sylvia's grave little mouth broke into a sudden smile, but her eyes were wistful. "I should love to believe as my cousin does," she answered. "He said we must judge everything by the fruits, and he is so good, so good." "Yes, Thinkright's fruits is all right," agreed Mrs. Lem, squeezing out her dishcloth. "He ain't any feeble critter either, I tell you.
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