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I'll go and tell her." Nora felt repaid in advance for any sacrifice to her pride as he beamed on her, all the look of worriment gone. She was once more busy at her ironing-board, bending low over her work to hide her confusion, when he returned with Gertie. A glance at her sister-in-law told her that there was to be no unbending in that quarter until she had made proper atonement.
My dear Cleek, I don't know whether you are a wizard or what, and I can't conceive what reason you can have for making such an inquiry, but " "Which was it? Canoe or ironing-board?" "Neither, as it happens. But they've got a lady's folding cutting table; you know the sort, one of those that women use for dressmaking operations; and possible to be folded up flat, so they can be tucked away.
"I only want things clean and neat," replied Richard. "I'm not going there to be a dude. I'm going there to work if I can get anything to do." Nevertheless, Grace was bound that he should look his best, and spent an extra hour over the washtub and ironing-board. It was decided that he should not be hampered with a trunk, but should take a valise instead. This Mrs.
Between the stove and the table at which Matvey was sitting was stretched an ironing-board; on it stood a cold iron. "Sister," Matvey asked, "let me have a little oil!" "Who eats oil on a day like this?" asked Aglaia. "I am not a monk, sister, but a layman. And in my weak health I may take not only oil but milk." "Yes, at the factory you may have anything."
The ironing-board should be supported upon two "horses" of the height of the table. The table should be supplied with an iron-rest. In a well-planned house there should be separate bedrooms for every inmate except the very small children. It is quite an economy in the care of the house that each child, at as early an age as possible, should have its own room and be taught to take care of it.
Then looking around the room at the piles of ironed clothes, he added: "You sutny is a indust'ious ooman." "I was des 'bout finishin' up some i'onin' I had fu' de white folks," smiled Sister Griggs, taking down her ironing-board and resting it in the corner.
"Principal, Assistant and Janitor," laughed Pearl, "that gives a person some scope to be sure." Mrs. Watson hurriedly put up the ironing-board, and set to work. She would get Pearl ready, though she did it with a heavy heart.
Gossip is their meat and drink, and it does not occur to them, or they do not care, that they are paid the same wages for time thus spent as for the hours at the tubs and ironing-board. "When you work, work; and when you play, play," is an excellent motto for both mistress and maid.
Dyer and Jedidiah started back, while the elephant with his trunk helped out some of the smaller animals, who stepped into rows on the ironing-board as fast as they were taken out. The cows were mooing, the cats mewing, the dogs barking, the pigs grunting. Presently Noah's head appeared, and he looked round for his wife; and then came Shem and Ham and Japheth with their wives.
Ambition was awakened in her before she was ten years of age, when she began to learn and to recite poems learning them, as has been said, "between the wash-tub and the ironing-board," and reciting them to the admiration of older and wiser people than she.
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