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So James and Troubridge started for the river with their towels, the Major and I promising to follow them immediately, for I wanted to look at my horse, and the Major had also something to do in the paddock. So we walked together. "Major," said I, when we had gone a little way, "do you never feel anxious about Mary Hawker's husband appearing and giving trouble?" "Oh, no!" said he.
Accordingly, she wrote forty notes to forty freshmen, telling them to wear kimonas, carry soap and towels, and be in the shower-bath compartment on the third floor at one minute after seven the following day. If the sophomores were up early enough to notice the freshmen's absences, they would not suspect anything unusual in such a proceeding.
The man had one end of the bundle of towels grasped in both his hands, while Rover was holding on like grim death to the other; the dog growling, and tugging away so violently between each growl, that the tramp had hard work to keep hold of his prize. Bob, on his part, had caught up a piece of broken timber, and was advancing to the faithful dog's aid.
Instead, there was a pile of towels already used towels made of crash and I was told to select the driest of them and dry myself. "I was clean when I went into that tub," I said to the black man "I am cleaner now; but if I dry myself with this sodden piece of crash, I will be dirtier than when I began."
Flushed and breathless with exercise, the majority proceeded to divest themselves of their flannels and, girt with towels, made off for the bathroom. One, however, flung himself panting on to his chest, and sprawled partly across his own and partly on his neighbour's. "I swear this is a bit thick!" he gasped. "I'm not used to this sort of frightfulness." He waved his legs in the air.
Stirring this mixture carefully by turns, they calculated how long it would have to boil in one of captain Wolseley's three towels which he sacrificed for the purpose so that they might be able to enjoy it at a moment when they would all be off duty. Five hours, they fancied, it must be on the fire, but it had scarcely been boiling one when the summons came to go back to their work.
On the other hand, to learn the nicer processes of the ill-paid work of feeding and folding at the mangle the passing of towels and napkins through the machine without turning in or wrinkling the edges, the passing of table-covers between cylinders in such a way that the work will never come out in a shape other than square to learn these nicer processes requires from thirteen to fifteen days.
Another exploration down that terrific corridor. Post office located at last and duly noted. Then to the linen store to draw attention to an error in the morning's supply of towels.
My bath towels likewise came in for a share of his admiration; but the thing which, next to my stature, most excited the fellow's astonishment was the whiteness of my skin, where it had been protected by my clothing, compared with the deep bronze of my face and hands.
It must be done with care as much depends upon it. Bed linen and towels require very little dampening; they, too, to be rolled and placed with the table linen. Sprinkle body linen well, particularly the lace and embroidery trimmings, roll tight, wrap, and add to the growing pile in the basket. The kitchen towels which have just come from the line may be utilized for wrapping purposes.
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