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There she had placed her little tub and wringer and she took the dolls one at a time, and scrubbed them with a scrubbing brush and soused them up and down and this way and that in the soap suds until they were clean. Then she hung them all out on the clothes-line in the sunshine to dry. There the dolls hung all day, swinging and twisting about as the breeze swayed the clothes-line.
Of course, we'll have a real laundry in the new house, but this will give you some idea of what it will be like," he said, as he opened the door and showed her in. "This is the washing machine and wringer, and this is the mangle." "Why, what's the mangle for?" she asked. "Oh, that's the machine for ironing the clothes," answered Bob. "They all run by electricity, too.
The turn of the wringer never seemed so easy, and she frequently paused in the rubbing of a soaped garment to wring the suds from her swollen hands and listen anew to the recital of Bud's call upon the bishop and the choirmaster of Grace Church. The next day the flood-tide of the Jenkins's fortunes bid fair to flow to fullness. Word came to the little home that Mr.
Now, in case the clothes wringer doesn't squeeze all the juice out of my breakfast orange, I'll tell you in the next story about Uncle Wiggily making a cherry pie. Do you remember the little boy whom Uncle Wiggily helped save after he fell out of the boat?
Say, the fog here is so thick you have to feel around like a blind goddess, and when you show up through the fog you look about eighteen feet high, and you are so wet you want to be run through a clothes wringer every little while. For two days we never left the hotel, but looked out of the windows waiting for the fog to go by, and watching the people swim through it, without turning a hair.
"It seems that he used to help his mother, because he was a strong little fellow, and could turn the wringer, and they would get up very early because he had to go to school, and in the spring and summer they washed out of doors, under a tree in the yard, and his mother's eyes were bright and her cheeks were red and her arms were white, and she was always laughing.
"Oh dear, yes; I remember now that your grandmother did put her forefinger, the right-hand forefinger it was, too, in the wheel of the wringer once to see what would happen," said Grandmother Great. "Did she cry?" asked Sallie. "Oh dear, yes, poor little girlie; she cried, and I was so frightened I cried, too.
It was the same in the domestic department; there was not even a dish washer or a clothes wringer, and the most extensive and valuable aid in the laundry was a pounding barrel in which the soiled clothes were placed and put under discipline. There was enough reason and brave common sense among the people to ponder on the condition of things as I have presented them to you.
There's something about you I can't tell what that just puts my heart through the wringer every time I'm round you. But honey " She paused. "But what?" "But lots of things. But you're only just eighteen, and I'm nearly twenty." "Nonsense!" he interrupted. "Put it this way that I'm in my nineteenth year and you're nineteen.
When he was about fourteen years old he built a steam engine. He used a bicycle pump for the cylinder and pieces of an old sewing machine, a discarded wringer, some brass wires, and other odds and ends for the rest of the parts. So perfect mechanically was this product that when steam was turned on it ran smoothly, and with very little noise, at the rate of three thousand revolutions a minute.
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