There's a big register from the furnace close the work table for
winter, and a gas cook stove that has more works than a watch."
"What does the lady say about it?"
"_Mighty little!_" said Mickey. "She just stands and wipes the shiny
places with her apron or handkerchief, and laughs and cries, 'cause _she's
so glad_. It ain't set up yet, but you can see just standing before it
what it's going to mean for her. And there's a chute from the upstairs to
the basement, to scoot the wash down to the electric machine to rub them,
and a little gas stove with two burners to boil them, and the iron I told
you of. Hanging it up is the hardest part of the wash these days, and
since they have three big rooms in the basement, Peter thought this
morning that he could put all the food in one, and stretch her lines in
the winter for the clothes to dry in the washroom. The furnace will heat
it, and it's light and clean; we are going to paint it when everything is
in place."
"Is that all?" queried Douglas.
"It's a running start," said Mickey; "I don't know as Peter will ever get
to 'all'.
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