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...constantly in a state of inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing brushes ; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delighting exceedingly t» be dabbling in water — insomuch that an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his...

...constantly in a state of inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing brushes ; and the good housewives of those days were a kind...amphibious animal, delighting exceedingly to be dabbling in.water — insomuch that an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew...

...good housewives of those days were a kind of amphihious animal, delighting exceedingly to he dahhling in water — -insomuch that an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his towuswomen grew to have wehhed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little d.mht, could...

...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new-years' days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great...exceedingly to be dabbling in water — insomuch that a historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like...

...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new-years' days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great...days were a kind of amphibious animal, delighting exceedPASSION FOR CLEANING. 169 ingly to be dabbling in water — insomuch that a historian of the...

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...was daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was ofttimes worn out by the very precautious taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly...historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his towuswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little doubt, could...