“A Memorable Wash Day” by Gladys Brooks Roberts White from Special Memories: A Collection of Stories by Chowan County Extension Homemakers
On a very cold windy day Mother and I were out near the well doing the family wash. My job was to draw the water. The chain was so cold and so hard to hold to bring up a bucket of water. The clothes were boiled in a big black iron washpot. The clothes were scrubbed on the metal washboard to help clean them.
Mother had persuaded Granddaddy to let her wash his only pair of wool pants. After scrubbing the pants for awhile, she put them in the wash pot to boil them.
When she put the wash stick in the pot to take out the pants, all she took out was the facings and the pockets. The Red Devil lye and homemade soap had dissolved the wool pants.
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