Something akin to despair must have seized upon her, for Euphemia declared that the floors looked dirtier than on the occasion of her first visit, when we rented the boat.
But that didn't discourage us.

We felt sure that we should get it clean in time.
Early in the afternoon our furniture arrived, together with the other things we had bought, and the men who brought them over from the steamboat landing had the brightest, merriest faces I ever noticed among that class of people.

Euphemia said it was an excellent omen to have such cheerful fellows come to us on the very first day of our housekeeping.
Then we went to work.

I put up the stove, which was not much trouble, as there was a place all ready in the deck for the stove-pipe to be run through.

Euphemia was somewhat surprised at the absence of a chimney, but I assured her that boats were very seldom built with chimneys.