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Updated: June 24, 2025
The pews were of pitch-pine, the walls and rafters coated with white-wash, some of which had peeled off and lay strewing the floor. A smell of oil filled the air; it was sweet and sickly, and came from the oozings of half a dozen untended lamps. Ornament the place had none, save a decent damask cloth on the Communion table. Oliver Vyell stood by the chancel rail.
He'd walk about your out-buildings and commend white-wash, and talk about insecticides; and you'd learn that bees are partial to blue, but flies are not; and that mosquitoes seem to dislike certain shades of yellow. And then he'd leave you to digest it.
"I came down from the arctic regions, my dears," said the smiling saint, "and up there we have perpetual snow." "It seems to be perpetual on your boots," observed King; "I'm sure it won't melt off at all!" "Yes, it's first-class snow," agreed Santa Claus, looking at his boots, which were really splashed with white-wash.
But men are queer, they look upon women's pleasures as childish, I really believe." The day before the pic-nic every one was busy; even Philip insisted upon helping. When Guy came to dinner there was such an air of commotion that he at once inquired the cause. "What's up, girls? house-cleaning? If that's the case, I'm off; no soap-suds and white-wash for me."
But he said it was not strange that it didn't waste white-wash on itself, for more lime was made there, and of a better quality, than anywhere in the West; and added 'On a dairy farm you never can get any milk for your coffee, nor any sugar for it on a sugar plantation; and it is against sense to go to a lime town to hunt for white-wash. In my own experience I knew the first two items to be true; and also that people who sell candy don't care for candy; therefore there was plausibility in Uncle Mumford's final observation that 'people who make lime run more to religion than whitewash. Uncle Mumford said, further, that Grand Tower was a great coaling center and a prospering place.
While in this section every man in the ranks looked very much like a white-wash artist white dust everywhere, filling our eyes, ears, noses, mouths. Lord! when I think of that chalk dust!
"Brush!" shouted the man, and a brush started out of a hole in the wall, and touched the target over with white-wash. "Now for the double gun," said my uncle. "Try this one, Nat." I took the gun and put it to my shoulder, aiming at the target; but it seemed heavier than the rifle, and the sight wavered about.
Providence has a wild rough incalculable road to its end, and 'it is of no use to try to white-wash its huge mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student of divinity. But he only drew from the thought of these cruelties of the universe the practical moral that 'our culture must not omit the arming of the man. He is born into the state of war, and will therefore do well to acquire a military attitude of soul.
They certainly look rough enough, but within they are ceiled above and around with smooth shining boards; there are no walls daubed with white-wash, nor floors strewn with vile gritty sand, which last certainly requires all the sanctity of custom to render it endurable, but the walls and floors are as bright and clean as the scrubbing-brush and plenty of soap can make them.
Small clearings were made in the bush. Frail huts with doors of matting and windows of calico began to arise. Lime was found, white-wash was applied, and the huts began to "smile." So did the waters of the stream when partially shorn of the bush-moustache by which, from time immemorial, they had been partially concealed; the first crops were sown, and the work of civilisation began.
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