'Try and fix your mind on that rabbit. A nice fat young rabbit, I'll
be bound. Got any onions?'
'I can't fix my mind on anything but my washing,' said the
barge-woman, 'and I wonder you can be talking of rabbits, with such a
joyful prospect before you. There's a heap of things of mine that
you'll find in a corner of the cabin. If you'll just take one or two
of the most necessary sort--I won't venture to describe them to a lady
like you, but you'll recognise them at a glance--and put them through
the wash-tub as we go along, why, it'll be a pleasure to you, as you
rightly say, and a real help to me. You'll find a tub handy, and
soap, and a kettle on the stove, and a bucket to haul up water from
the canal with. Then I shall know you're enjoying yourself, instead
of sitting here idle, looking at the scenery and yawning your head
off.'
'Here, you let me steer!' said Toad, now thoroughly frightened, 'and
then you can get on with your washing your own way. I might spoil
your things, or not do 'em as you like. I'm more used to gentlemen's
things myself.
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