. Two girls on a barge. had grown late meanwhile—was only aboard flap by the stove. But the little stove itselfwas a kitchen and laundry in one, with its roastingplate and oven, and kettle boiling on the top, andbright brass rail behind to hang the clothes big, flat cupboard in the wall held all thehousehold gods, and little hooks and hanging jugsand tiny drawers filled all the crannies and thecorners of the room. It was the tiniest home nextto a birds nest that ever was imagined. Oppositethe stove a deep, wide oilskin bench was the com-fortable substitute for chairs, and Eccles three
. Two girls on a barge. had grown late meanwhile—was only aboard flap by the stove. But the little stove itselfwas a kitchen and laundry in one, with its roastingplate and oven, and kettle boiling on the top, andbright brass rail behind to hang the clothes big, flat cupboard in the wall held all thehousehold gods, and little hooks and hanging jugsand tiny drawers filled all the crannies and thecorners of the room. It was the tiniest home nextto a birds nest that ever was imagined. Oppositethe stove a deep, wide oilskin bench was the com-fortable substitute for chairs, and Eccles three-legged stool completed the dolls-house. Forornament—and very decorative, too—there wasthe yellow paint and floral design of the cupboardsand the cans. Mrs. Bargees jugs and cans allwore yellow paint and a design in roses, pink andwhite, and round the paint and the design name met all the world, strong and blacklyblazoned in big square letters, clear to see. d Mrs. Bargee made us tea in her big brown. THE LAST OF THE BAEGE i;6 TWO GIRLS ON A BARGE teapot, and hugged her lile red washstand, for11 did jest seem set on im sence fust ever I dustedis legs, she said, pulling out the towel-bar andarranging the soap underneath it. I couldnt avebeared for im to go away wi ye. She didntlament our departure ! By-and-by the Bargee came in for his supper;he had been tending to the orse, he said, forthey must start bright and early to-morrow. Why, it be nigh three week sence us took onwi em, missus, and it dont seem only like yester-day. * Ye mun put the little lad to bed right off, headded fatherlywise. And so we said good-night to the kindly country-folk, and the long, pleasant idle days, and the littleyellow cabin, and the old deep barge. Mrs. Bargeefumbled for a pencil then, and gave Edna heraddress on Braunceston Wharf, and the Bargee,taking the Cadet aside, would be always at his service, Sir, and vera much obliged to you, But Eccles had curled up in his corner and was
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