“The worst day of the week as far as Ella was concerned. She hated standing over the wash tub and stirring the clothes in boiling water with the long wooden paddle. Even when the water got cool enough for her to put her hands in, the harsh lye soap still ate at them. They were no longer the lily white, soft appendages she’d arrived in Golden City with. Now, more often than not, they were red and chapped and sometimes hurt like hell. She chastised herself for her language. That was another thing ...she’d learned. How to cuss. Martha was good at it, her language often very colorful. Nathan tended to watch his language in front of her, but she heard him, when he didn’t think she could hear, cuss a blue streak more than once. Usually over something that one of the cowboys did. He never disciplined them in front of the other men, but they heard about whatever it was in private. Laundry was almost done. All she had to do was hang it. She put it in the basket and carried it to the clothes line.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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