"I shall have to write to Bert and tell him what we think of his housekeeping." As soon as the water was heated, Jane produced some full length gingham aprons, which she tossed to her companions.

Arrayed in these, the girls took up scrub brushes and soap and got to work on the inside of the cabin.

Their skirts were pinned up, their sleeves rolled back to the shoulders and they looked like veritable scrub women.
"Let's all work on the same side of the boat," called Jane.

"I want one side to get dry so we can begin to paint it." The slap, slap of the painters' brushes already was heard on the outside.

The remaining boards over the windows had been torn off and carefully laid aside for other uses.
Two hours later Jane got the painters to open the cans of white paint and stir up the contents.