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Updated: June 5, 2025
He looked forward animatedly to the journey, remembering details of travel such trivial touches as the oval brass wash-bowls of a Pullman sleeper, and how, when the water is running out, the inside of the bowl is covered with a whitish film of water, which swiftly peels off.
In the midst of this uproar of brass, strings, sheep- skin, wash-bowls, broken coal, pokers and tongs, a lean figure in curl-papers and slippers, bright red calico wrapper reaching to the floor, and a lighted candle in one hand, forced its way through the crowd at the door and stood out in the glare of the gaslights facing McFudd. It was Miss Ann Teetum! Instantly a silence fell upon the room.
The men all started as if they had been rudely awakened from sleep, and began to carry the necessaries ashore, while Brace turned to the American, who was busy at the locker, from which he was getting out a couple of the shallow galvanised-iron wash-bowls they used. "Cast loose that shovel from under the thwart, Brace, my lad," he said. "I say, sure there are none of those little flippers about?"
It often snows there in the month of August, but spring and early summer in the locality are delightful; and dotted about are numerous little romantic green lakes, glittering like emeralds in the sunshine. Those who slander these by comparing them to wash-bowls and cisterns, are simply troubled with the spleen, a malady which neither iron, iodine, nor yet sulphur, can cure.
Whitney, for that was the gentleman's name. "They didn't have no wash-bowls at the hotel where I stopped," said Dick. "What hotel did you stop at?" "The Box Hotel." "The Box Hotel?" "Yes, sir, I slept in a box on Spruce Street." Frank surveyed Dick curiously. "How did you like it?" he asked. "I slept bully." "Suppose it had rained." "Then I'd have wet my best clothes," said Dick.
There were easy-chairs, made of the hulls of hickory-nuts; hammocks, made of the inside bark of the paw-paw; wash-bowls, curiously carved from the hulls of beech-nuts; and beautiful curtains, of the leaves of the silver poplar. The floor was paved with the seeds of the wild grape, and beautifully carpeted with the lichens from the beech and maple trees.
Hal, striving to remember where he had seen olive-skinned Greeks with big black eyes in this beautiful land of the free, could hold out no better prospect than a shoe-shining parlour, or the wiping out of wash-bowls in a hotel-lavatory, handing over the tips to a fat padrone.
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