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The ribbon, Alfredia wore was at least four inches wide and it was tied in front at the roots of her kinky hair into a bow, the wings of which stuck out on each side like a pair of elephant ears. The little colored girl came in at the side gate, drawing the wash-basket after her. "How-do, Miss Ruthie and Miss Aggie? How-do, Tessie and Dottie? You-all gwine to school on Monday?"
And he was thinking so much about this and laughing so with Arnold and Mirabell that he never stopped to think of the Calico Clown in among the handkerchiefs he had put in the wash-basket. But that is what he had done. He had thrust the Clown, with the handkerchiefs, down in Mandy's basket of soiled clothes. "Oh, my! Oh, dear me!
The story was briefly told of how it had got into the wash-basket after having been found in Daddy's pocket and taken to the office. "Oh, I'm so glad!" cried Sidney. "I'll be over the first thing in the morning to get him." "But what I'm wondering about is how the Clown got in my pocket," said Daddy, with a puzzled look on his face.
'You parsons and petticoats must always mince the meat to hash the fact. Peterborough defended his young friend Harry's moral reputation, and was amazed to hear that the squire did not think highly of a man's chastity. The squire acutely chagrined the sensitive gentleman by drawling the word after him, and declaring that he tossed that kind of thing into the women's wash-basket.
Oh, what is going to happen now?" thought the Calico Clown as he felt himself covered up and taken away. "Oh, if I could only tell Mirabell or Arnold I am here. Oh, this is dreadful." But he could do nothing! Away he was taken in the wash-basket. Daddy hurried into the house with Mirabell and Arnold.
I said with a blank smile. "Junk?" "No, it's not junk. That mass of ribs and white silk which looks like junk to your unaccustomed eye constitutes a set of aeroplanes or wings." "But the other thing is merely the common or domestic variety of wash-basket, is it not?" "Well er yes," admitted Hawkins with cold dignity.
A chandelier of rock-crystal hung in solid gold chains from the ceiling; masterly paintings in broad, rich frames were on the silken walls; Japan vases stood on gilded consoles, and numerous costly ornaments added to the splendor of the aristocratic apartment. Madame Letitia, standing beside the wash-basket, presented a marked contrast with all this.
The result of this liberal order was that, after the great wash-basket of parcels had been distributed, and the school had rioted for twenty- four hours upon these unaccustomed luxuries, Rose was found lying on her bed, ghastly and pallid. "Never speak to me of any thing sweet again so long as I live!" she gasped.
Now we will bring the wash-basket, and see whether young Capet will go into it. He brought out of the chamber a high, covered basket, grasped the boy, thrust him in, and ordered him to lie down on the bottom of the basket. "He exactly fits!" said Simon to his wife. "We will now throw some dirty clothes over him, and he can spend the night in the basket.
Only the tin-wagon takes rags, and they pay in tinware, and that's no good to a boy that wants to go to the circus. And as for bottles well, sir, you wash out a whole, whole lot of bottles, a whole big lot of 'em, a wash-basket full, and tote 'em down to Mr. Case's drug and book-store, as much as ever you and your brother can wag, and see what he gives you. It's simply scandalous.
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