"As it is so damp to-day, the Deputy told me I had better put the men on a job down in the men's workshop; so they won't be in here to-day."
"If the whitening will dry there, why not here?" I asked.
He smiled. "The men have begun there; it won't be best to take them off. I don't think the Deputy would like to have me come in here now."
"I don't think he would," was my knowing reply.
Very soon, Mr. Deputy made his appearance again, and came up to me with a nice, spicy compliment.
"I find it the same here early and late, quiet and clean."
"I'm glad you are pleased with my place."
"Can't you go over to the wash-room, and set the women to work, when they go out from breakfast? And I should like to have you stay there as much as you can this forenoon, to keep order. As it is pea day your women won't have a great deal to do; and you have got them so well trained they will get on very well without you. You will have no trouble in managing both places."
"O yes, sir; I will oblige you in that way with pleasure!"
When they came in to white-wash the kitchen, it rained pouring. The only revenge I took upon the Deputy was to ask him if he thought it would be a good drying day.