Every Man His Own Laundress
says Mr. Allen why someiïmes it is gr'otcsoue enougti. Men wh at hom aro paragnns of ileatness and gentility, have becóme so metamorphoscel that you would scarccly recognize them. They , have becoiue sun-burnt and have not shaved since thoy have bcon thcre, and j as to washing and changing of clothes, ! why it mïïces ino smile to see one wlio has aÃwáys been in the habit of going to â his drawcr and hclping himself, now, with his sleeves rollcd up, goin down either , to a pon'l, lagond or river, yrith his campkcttle, soap, &c, Ãn onc hamï, and ( in tho pther his clothes ; wandering into .- the water hc conwiences operations by rubbingon the soap, and rubbing, f ing and wrlngïng until he has hrought ( thern to a tolerable perfection, he hangs ( them up, or sprawls them out to dry.- - And don"t they ii-on them ? Ohv don't . mention that. Théy are glad to get them â without,nnd this, gentlc reader, is no faney ? &keich it is stern reality. But I must y close this for the present,
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