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Ah has de rheumatism, no pain ah jes gets stiffer, an' stiffer right along." Mah sight sho am poor now. Ah cain't wuk no mo. Ah done ironin aftah ah quit cookin washin an ironin, ah likes a nice wash an iron the bes fo wuk. But lasyear mah eyes done give out on me, an dey tell me not to worry dey gointo give me a pension. De man goes to a heap o' wuk to get dem papers fix jes right."

"Sarah," he said, and she looked up as before, without any doubt, in his open countenance, "are you a good worker?" "I am, at washin and ironin. I have been makin a good deal for my master that way." "Well," said Mr. Weston, "if I were to purchase you, so as you could be near your husband, would you conduct yourself properly; and if I wish it, endeavor to repay me what I have given for you?"

"I just love fancy shirtwaists, an' I spent my life ironing some of the beautifullest I've ever seen. It's funny, an' it isn't fair." Billy gritted his teeth in another of his rages. "An' the way some of them women gets their shirtwaists. It makes me sick, thinkin' of you ironin' 'em. You know what I mean, Saxon. They ain't no use wastin' words over it. You know. I know. Everybody knows.

The cook wanted an ironin' board, he said, and he borrowed it "He broke off, and scrambled hastily over the side of 'The Angel of Death. Then he rushed below, and in a few minutes came back, nervously tearing off some sheets of white cloth, which surrounded the handsome, hand-carved, mahogany Plank. "'Lucky for you! bellowed Pedro, 'now put her in place, boys!