Clothing and dishcloths weren’t so bad, but her hands cramped with the effort of squeezing out water from the big linens. If she didn’t wring them out well, they would take forever to dry. The autumn continued cold and damp, and although this meant that now they were finding mushrooms every day, it also meant that mud was everywhere, both inside and out, and laundry took on a musty smell from being wet too long. It also meant that the few vegetables that Maude had managed to grow in a patch hidden from Mamma rotted before they were ripe, save for a few pumpkins and some hard beans that Jane cooked in a stew. Maybe now that the roof was fixed and the kitchen chimney was usable again, they could hang the linens in here and dry them by the fire. She considered. No, it would be easier to use the lines that were already strung behind the house, as long as the rain held off for a while. Besides, the kitchen was so huge that it would take all their store of firewood to make it warm and dry enough to be worth the trouble.
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