Cheon, convinced that the system was all Johnny's was delighted with his
ingenuity. But as he insisted on the walls being scrubbed as soon as
they were up, and before the doors and windows were in, Johnny had one or
two good duckings, and narrowly escaped many more; for lubras' methods of
scrubbing are as full of surprises as all their methods.
First soap is rubbed on the dry boards, then vigorously scrubbed into a
lather with wet brushes, and after that the lather is sluiced off with
artificial waterspouts whizzed up the walls from full buckets. It was
while the sluicing was in progress that Johnny had to be careful; for
many buckets missed their mark, and the waterspouts shot out through the
doorways and window frames.
Wearing a mackintosh, I did what I could to prevent surprises, but
without much success. Johnny fortunately took it all as a matter of
course. "It's all in the good cause," he chuckled, shaking himself like
a water-spaniel after a particularly bad misadventure; and described the
"performance" with great zest to the Maluka when he returned.
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