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He's agoin' to give us all the church surpluses to wash and his house-wash, too. Flamingus is to go fer them to the rectry to-night, and you're to go to Miss King's and get the waists she has to be did up. She left two car tickets fer you." "We air jest astubbin' our toes on luck," gasped Amarilly. "The fust pay from the new washin's shall go fer a new hat and dress fer you, Amarilly.
I like her first rate, and believe she is a likely woman; I believe she has been lied about, she jest the same as told me she had; if she wuz a woman that took in washin's for a livin' there wouldn't have been so much said about her. Why, it is jest as easy for envious folks to run them high in position and try to demean 'em as it is to fall off a log.
The children came from school, Amarilly from the theatre, and the Boarder from his switch to hold an excited family conference. "It's a good thing we got the washin's all hum afore Iry was took," declared the optimistic Amarilly. "Thar's two things here yet," reported Mrs. Jenkins. "Gus come hum too late last night to take the preacher's surplus and Miss King's lace waist.
Yo're bluffing, you hear me whistlin'. You dunno no more about it than I do. You can't tell me petticoats is made out of a strip of white stuff less'n a half-inch wide. I've seen too many washin's hangin' on the lines, I have. Yeah. And done too many. When I was a young one my ma would tie an apron round my neck, slap me down beside a tubful of clo'es, and tell me to fly to it. Petticoats!
The washin's no' extra guid for them, but a body maun dae something for meat. I've anither mooth to fill noo. My guid-brither, Bob Johnson, is deid since I saw ye, an' I've been obleeged to tak' Tammy no' an ill loon. He's at the schule, or ye wad hae seen him. 'I don't suppose you would be sorry to leave this place and give up the washing if you could get something easier? said Gladys.
"Who'd work for a livin'?" Jim triumphantly demanded. "Pick an' shovel work!" he sneered. "Work like a dog all my life, an' save all my wages, an' I wouldn't have half as much as we got tonight." "Dish washin's about your measure, an' you couldn't get more'n twenty a month an' board. Your figgers is 'way off, but your point is well taken. Let them that likes it, work.
Tell me what I can do to help your mother." "If you could git us more washin's," exclaimed Amarilly eagerly, "it would help heaps. We could take in lots more than we do now." "Let me think. You see we keep a laundress; but does your mother do up very fine things like laces carefully?" "She does," replied Amarilly glibly. "She kin do 'em orful keerful, and we dry the colored stuffs in the shade.
Muir next door, wi' six bairns, an' a' the wark o' the hoose to dae an' washin's forbye, an' here's Miss Reston never liftin' a finger except to pu' silk threads through a bit stuff. That's what makes folk Socialists." Mawson, who belonged to that fast disappearing body, the real servant class, and who, without a thought of envy, delighted in the possession of her mistress, looked sadly puzzled.
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