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Updated: July 18, 2025
She saw the nursery fireside in the rectory, and her mother, with hair that still shone like satin, rocking back and forth in the black wicker chair with the sagging bottom. She saw her kneeling on the old frayed red and blue drugget, her skirt pinned up at the back of her waist, while she bathed her daughter's scratched and aching feet in the oblong tin foot-tub.
"I am bleeding from a hundred wounds. As for you" she turned fiercely on Aggie and me "the least you could have done was to be here when I returned, exhausted, injured, and weary; but, of course, you were gallivanting round the lake in an upholstered motor boat." Here she poured more water into the foot-tub and made it much too hot. This thawed her rather, and she explained what was wrong.
Tish took a sip of tea, but said nothing. "You said," I reminded her, "that if there was shooting, we were to start after you at once. When we heard the shots, we went, of course." Tish leaned over and, taking the teakettle from the fire, poured more water into the foot-tub. Then at last she turned to speak. "Bring some absorbent cotton and some bandages, Hutchins," she said.
As we passed Island Eleven we could see the spy's camp-fire and his tent, but no living person. At four in the morning we gave up and started back, heavy-hearted. What, therefore, was our surprise to find Tish sitting by the fire in her bathrobe, with a cup of tea in her lap and her feet in a foot-tub of hot water!
They would have had to swap laps if they had been together to-day, for Het needed a foot-tub to take care of her overflow. Well, I'm keepin' you from your royal banquet. You'll find it on the dinner-table, with the cloth all drawed up over it like a bundle ready for the wash. Ma tied it up that way to keep the cat out of it.
She was pouring the boiling water into the foot-tub, in which she had put a preparation of mustard and prickly ash and red pepper, which she kept on hand for extreme cases like this, and the odor of the steam made him sick and faint, as, grasping the mantel, he replied: "He wished me to pray with him; he will not live till morning. Please don't talk to me any more.
Dick immediately hung out the French officers' clothing, and then brought a clam-shell, larger than an ordinary foot-tub, full of water, that Lord Reginald might enjoy a bath, which he had hitherto been afraid of taking. "I feel quite like a new man!" exclaimed the young lord, after he had dressed himself. "If you will not let me work to-day, I hope by to-morrow to show that I can do something.
Willie's new apartment consisted of a sitting-room, a fair-sized bedroom, and a very small bath. About the sitting-room the ladies wandered, glancing disinterestedly at the Kerr Penates. Presently Mrs. Heth opened doors and peeped into what lay beyond. "It's a good thing he's small," said she. "H'm, that thing looks like a foot-tub." Carlisle, looking over her mother's shoulder, laughed.
I guess you don't often get such a chance as that 'ere. Well, I gets near the Major at table, and afore me stood a china utensil with two handles, full of soup, about the size of a foot-tub, with a large silver scoop in it, near about as big as a ladle of a maple sugar kettle.
Here he pulled out a small drawer, where the lady kept ribbons, laces, and handkerchiefs, and putting them in a foot-tub, rubbed away vigorously for an hour, with all the soap and water there were to be found in the room. "When the lady returned to the chamber, he was busily engaged in spreading the torn and disfigured remnants to dry.
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