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Her head is red, her face a trifle freckled, her body's so stout that the girt of a mule wouldn't encircle her waist," and here Terrence winked, "She plays on the wash-board an illigant tune, for which she charges a half a dime a garment." "Did you ever meet with such a jolly fellow?" laughed Fernando when he was gone. "No," Sukey answered. "He has made my sides ache."
To the Captain's "That will do, Rachael," she turned dutifully away; not so soon, however, but that I had seen a fresh young face within the bonnet confines a round rosy face according well with the buxom curves of her as she again bent over her wash-board. "Our fare is that of the tents of Abraham, stranger," spoke the Captain, who had resumed his whittling. "Such as it is, you are welcome to.
This was not the grief she had thought of, a woman working calmly at her wash-tub, while her husband lay dead in the next room. Helen could see the tub, with the mist of steam about it, and the wash-board, and the bar of yellow soap. She followed Mrs.
Small tins for little cakes. One muffin-pan. One double milk-boiler, the inside boiler holding two quarts. One fish-boiler, which can also be used for hams. One deep bread-pan; a dish-pan is good, but must be kept for this. One steamer. One pudding-boiler. One cake-box. Six teaspoons. One bread-board. One rolling-pin. One meat-board. One wash-board. One lemon-squeezer. One potato-masher.
But Farrar, the flannel of his shirt clinging to the muscular outline of his shoulders, gave him a push which sent him sprawling against the lee refrigerator. Well Miss Thorn was not there to see. "You will have to answer for this," he cried, as he scrambled to his feet and clutched the weather wash-board with one hand, while he shook the other in Farrar's face.
But, after a while, when she had laughed until she was tired, she suddenly rose to her feet, and as she gathered up a handful of wet garments, and began rubbing them on the wash-board, she exclaimed, still chuckling: "Lemme git to my washin', honey, befo' I disgrace my mo'nin'."
Now Dinah did not know but that Marcella had placed Raggedy in the clothes hamper to be washed, so she soaped Raggedy well and scrubbed her up and down over the rough wash-board. Two buttons from the back of Raggedy's dress came off and one of Raggedy Ann's shoe-button eyes was loosened as Dinah gave her face a final scrub. Then Dinah put Raggedy Ann's feet in the wringer and turned the crank.
"Cake, stove, smoke, tub, wash-board, scrub, rag, tub, stove, ashes." "Keep it up!" "I dunno no more." "We can't get beyond ashes, eh?" said the lady. "Now suppose you tell me what the following words mean. Charity?" "Is it a organization?" asked Nance doubtfully. "Justice?" "I dunno that one." "Do you know what God is?" Nance felt that she was doing badly.
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