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Tommy bounded first after one and then after another, for, being a young dog, he tried to make friends with everybody. The Bushmen ran round corners, and some shut themselves in the stable. There was a new weather-board and corrugated-iron kitchen and wash-house on piles in the back-yard, with some women washing clothes inside.
There are baths of all kinds plunge baths, warm baths, Turkish baths, and douche baths; and the wash-house, to enable the women to wash their clothes away from their cottages, is a great accommodation, inasmuch as indoor washing is most pernicious, and a fruitful source of disease, especially to the young. The workpeople are also thrifty.
I remember having the intense pleasure of playing him a little trick just after he had been caning a lad who was a very good friend of mine. It happened in this way but first I must describe the topography of the place. Mr. At the other end of the garden was a wash-house with the schoolroom over it, and in the wash-house there was a large copper for boiling linen.
Then there were the carpenter and his men; and, meanwhile, the smith was converting a wash-house into a forge, and manufacturing complete sets of tools for his own share of the labour.
Smike shuffled out with the basin, and Mrs Squeers having called up a little boy with a curly head, and wiped her hands upon it, hurried out after him into a species of wash-house, where there was a small fire and a large kettle, together with a number of little wooden bowls which were arranged upon a board.
"Going home to China," he calls it, because at that time the Chinese eat their national food, and observe their own customs. We told him, before he left, that he must be sure to come back in two days; but three passed, with no sign of him. Then R went down to the wash-house, and left word that he must come directly back. In the course of the afternoon, he walked in.
"Then I'll give them something to listen to," said the angry Perks; "I've spoke my mind to them afore now, and I'll do it again," he added, and he took two strides to the wash-house door, and flung it wide open as wide, that is, as it would go, with the tightly packed children behind it. "Come out," said Perks, "come out and tell me what you mean by it.
The people have but little ingenuity; there is a lack of labor-saving devices; indeed, the only thing of the kind I saw was a wash-house, through which the hot water from the boiler of the mill is led; but the house itself was badly arranged and comfortless. The young people have a band of music, but no other amusement that I could hear of.
The laundry, wash-house, gun-room and game-larder occupy another building, which, however, is easily approached, and the whole building, though it extends seven hundred feet in length, is a perfect model of compactness. Great facilities are given to any one who desires to see it."
Martha didn't like to see him disappointed, if it were only in joke; so she came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper. 'And how did little Tim behave? asked Mrs.
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