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He blew a little cloud of smoke in the air, and with half-closed eyes corrected his first impression as to the tune being played round the corner. "Bill!" cried the voice of Mrs. Jobling, who was washing-up in the tiny scullery. "'Ullo!" responded Mr. Jobling, gruffly. "You've been putting your wet teaspoon in the sugar-basin, and well, I declare, if you haven't done it again."
He blew a little cloud of smoke in the air, and with half-closed eyes corrected his first impression as to the tune being played round the corner. "Bill!" cried the voice of Mrs. Jobling, who was washing-up in the tiny scullery. "'Ullo!" responded Mr. Jobling, gruffly. "You've been putting your wet teaspoon in the sugar-basin, and well, I declare, if you haven't done it again."
If the peace of the world had depended upon his washing-up he could not have permitted himself to be actually seen in the rôle of kitchen-girl by Mr. Haim so extreme was his lack of logic and right reason. There was a silence, a protracted silence, and then Mr.
After breakfast, when he was informed that, as tent-orderly for the day, it was his business to wash up, he began to feel as if he were on a desert island. He had never quite realised before what washing-up implied, and he was conscious of a feeling of respect for the servants at Blackburn's, who did it every day as a matter of course, without complaint.
There was a squatter of the Sam Buckley type, but he, in the strictest sense of the word, went to beggary; and, being too plump of body and exalted of soul for barrow-work, and too comprehensively witless for anything else, he was shifted by the angels to a better world a world where the Christian gentleman is duly recognised, and where Socialistic carpenters, vulgar fishermen, and all manner of undesirable people, do the washing-up.
But for some days, O my love, let these only woods be enough for us!" Their dessert of fruit eaten, she arose and turned to the business of washing-up. He would have helped; but she mocked him, having hidden his shoes. "You are to rest quiet, and obey!" Before setting to work she brought him coffee and a roll of tobacco-leaf, and held a burning stick for him while he lit and inhaled.
Scott, the banker, used to do for us at the Turon when we brought in our month's washing-up. We had 5000 oz. Starlight had an extra share on account of being captain, and the rest had somewhere about 8000 oz. or 9000 oz. among them. It wasn't so bad. Dad wasn't long before he had our lot safely packed and on his two pack-horses.
"You'll excuse me mentioning such things," she continued, "but there's the washing-up and bed-making." "Excellent athletic exercises!" cried Mr. Clarkson. "In Xenophon's charming picture of married life we see the model husband instructing the young wife to leave off painting and adorning herself, and to seek the true beauty of health and strength by housework and turning beds."
And so they had the blessed experience of lying still and drowsy, and hearing Kink move about for their comfort. The boys were up first, and made extremely noisy toilets in the washing-up basin, and then Jack and Gregory went off to the farm for milk and butter and eggs, and Mrs.
Except that our scrub-ladies, each and all, discovering that the Dry Store's allowance of this priceless chemical had at last apparently been generous, caused it to fly at a disconcerting pace, and as a result sometimes left me short of it, my career as a washer-up afterwards became more comfortable. I shall never like washing-up.
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