| Monday morning, in a house where washday begins, must be dreadful for the man of the house. |
| That, he said, was his contribution towards the washday ritual. |
| Monday was washday, the clothes washed in boiling water in a tub with a dolly peg. |
| And Mrs. ducker calls to see Ma nearly every washday now, just when she's busiest, and so Pa has to sit and entertain her. |
| It needed to be an easy meal as Monday was washday and especially busy. |
| The first job on washday was to carry water from the pump, and heat in huge vats on the stove. |
