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They needed considerable hitching up and pinning, for they were as minus of buttons as all the garments seemed to be which had to pass through Mary Fogarty's hands and washtub; but a few strings would help and maybe Timothy Dowd could supply those; and if once Take-a-Stitch could get her fingers upon a needle and thread my, how she would alter everything!
Instantly, the dishpan grew as large as a big washtub, and Ugu seated himself in it and grasped the two handles. Then he wished himself in the great drawing room of Glinda the Good. He was there in a flash.
One might suppose that this would come under the head of boating, but one would be mistaken, for it properly belongs to swimming, as any one who has witnessed or taken part in such a race will tell you. Each contestant supplies himself with an ordinary washtub. At the word "Go!" he places it in the water, climbs in as best he can, and paddles with his hands for the taw line.
Fitch, who had run from the washtub to get into her Sunday waist, came out of the door. "So you hain't forgot me!" she exclaimed. "I was almost afeard you'd forgot me." "I've been away," said Victoria, gently taking the woman's hand and sitting down on the doorstep. "Don't set there," said Mrs. Fitch; "come into the parlour. You'll dirty your dress Mary!" This last in admonition.
And on the next page, if the washtub doesn't fall out of its crib and knock a hole in the tea kettle so that all the lemonade runs out, I'll tell you how Curly helped his mamma. "Well, this is certainly a fine day for washing!" exclaimed Mrs. Twistytail, the pig lady, one morning as she got up from the nice, clean, straw bed where she had slept with little Pinky.
That's the way we're insulted, sir; and when anybody wants a chair to stand on, the mistress says, 'Take a wooden one. Just see the marks of Johnny's boot nails on me now, and that scratch, caused by Bridget's using me and one of my fellows to put the washtub on!"
Fitch, who had run from the washtub to get into her Sunday waist, came out of the door. "So you hain't forgot me!" she exclaimed. "I was almost afeard you'd forgot me." "I've been away," said Victoria, gently taking the woman's hand and sitting down on the doorstep. "Don't set there," said Mrs. Fitch; "come into the parlour. You'll dirty your dress Mary!" This last in admonition.
I did mention it to his wife, who failed to understand my scruples, and replied, 'They meets in the washtub, and why not on the line? and in truth, why not? But here we are arrived at last." The donkey pulled up at the gate of one of a pair of cottages which stood at the further end of the little green, and Philippa gave an exclamation of pleasure and surprise.
The cottage looked quite different in the blazing firelight, and Bill, encouraged by the organist's presence, tidied up the place, where the washtub stood just as Mrs Gray had left it; and he set the kettle on to boil, so that when Mrs Gray and Tom came in it presented quite a comfortable appearance.
I wonder you got home; but of course Dick came with you, or Billy, or possibly Tom. I hear you entertained all three of them at the washtub! Pretty good for the first day home! Good-bye till to-night. I only live till then, as they say in novels.
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