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"You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring cleaning time comes?"
But he was exactly as fascinating as ever, and they had a lovely spring cleaning in the little house on the tree tops.
Peter came next spring cleaning; and the strange thing was that he never knew he had missed a year.
"Of course; that is why I have come." He added a little sternly, "Have you forgotten that this is spring cleaning time?"
She knew it was useless to say that he had let many spring cleaning times pass.
"It is just for spring cleaning time," Jane said, "he wants me always to do his spring cleaning."
Jane is now a common grown-up, with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he forgets, Peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly.
Miss Mackie was a member of one of the oldest and most cultured families of the North, and yet for two weeks she worked by my side cleaning windows, dusting rooms, putting beds in order, and what not.
She had read the letter to the family, and Rowena had danced away to see to the cleaning and airing of the room by the slave woman, Nancy, and the boys had rushed abroad in the town to spread the great news, for it was a matter of public interest, and the public would wonder and not be pleased if not informed.
When we got back from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John cleaning the knives, and I said -
But the main--that's the big un, with the cloud on it--they usually calls the Spy-glass, by reason of a lookout they kept when they was in the anchorage cleaning, for it's there they cleaned their ships, sir, asking your pardon."
It was Saturday afternoon, and the landlady was cleaning the stairs.
Too often, in-house manifold cleanings are attempted by personnel who, for the sake of speed and dollars (or due to inexperience), try short cuts like partial disassembly and cleaning, or they fail to assemble the manifold correctly.