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“Daylight come and me washin’ me bum.”

Hannah was out of humor because her week’s work was deranged, and prophesied that “ef the washin’ and ironin’ warn’t done reg’lar, nothin’ would go well anywheres”.

“Miss Mattie Lou’s body wasn’t hardly gone to the funeral parlor before that woman was down to your pa’s house, washin’ and moppin’ and dustin’ and sweepin’.”

Scourin’ floors, washin’ win-ders and curtains, and scrubbin’ furniture like they’s cooties or bedbugs in ever piece.

“They ’as ten or twelve fam’lies in our wagon train, takin’ thangs south to sell in Washin’ton, Georgie.