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Updated: June 8, 2025
This was soon done, and on this shelf the big tin washboiler was placed, and also some tin pans from the pantry. Bunny climbed up on the stepladder to put the shelf and things in place. Other articles for a hardware play-store were placed on the lower ironing board shelf, and then Bunny was ready for "Mrs. Snifkins" to come again.
And, worst of all, Bunny Brown himself was hidden from sight in that mess of ironing board, washboiler, and other things! "Oh! Oh! Oh!" cried Sister Sue, dropping her basket and her button money, which rolled all over the floor. "Oh, dear!" "Bless and save us!" cried Mary, the cook. "What has happened?" Bunny Brown said nothing. Mrs. Brown came hurrying into the kitchen from the living room.
"What has happened?" she asked. "What was that crash?" It needed only one look to show her what had happened and what had caused the rattling, banging, crashing sound. On the floor, over and around the two chairs and the large ironing board, were the smaller board, the stepladder, the washboiler, two hammers, a lot of nails, many bread, cake, and pie pans, and some knives and forks.
'Hold on a minute, said he, 'you old shellback. I've proved to you that I can write; and I've proved to you that I have fought, and now here I'll prove to you that I can sail. If writing, fighting, and sailing don't fit me adequately to report any little disturbances your antiquated washboiler may blunder into, I'll go to raising cabbages. With that he presented a master's certificate!
There is also a new washboiler full of lemonade that you can partake of at will, though I guess you won't want any and thanking you one and all!"
"I'll have things high up on the shelf, and I'll climb up on a ladder to get 'em, as they do down town." "What you going to climb up on?" Sue asked. "The stepladder." "What you going to make a high shelf of?" Sue inquired. "There's another ironing board down in the laundry," Bunny answered. "And I can get the washboiler and a lot of things.
"The children have to play something in the house when it rains out of doors." "Yes," agreed Mrs. Brown. "But they could have kept on playing grocery store. They didn't need to make a high shelf and put the big washboiler up on it to fall down when the door was moved the least bit!" "I did that," confessed Bunny, anxious that Sue should not be blamed for what was not her fault.
There was much merriment when the audience discovered that the brook could be heard running uphill behind the scenes; two hobble-de-hoy boys were dipping the water with pails from the washboiler at the end of the sluice and lugging it upstairs, where they dumped it into the brook's fount.
It wouldn't do for him to be getting light-headed. On a flat, shelving bluff, forty feet above a cut through which the railroad ran at a point about five miles north of where the collision had occurred, a tramp was busy, just before sundown, cooking something in an old washboiler that perched precariously on a fire of wood coals.
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