Scottish Washing

I shall take notice of one thing, which is commonly to be seen by the sides of the river, and that is, young
women with their coats tncked up, stamping, in tubs, upon linen by way of washing; and this not only in summer, hut in the hardest frosty weather, when
their legs and feet are almost literally as red as blood with the cold ; and often two of these wenches stamp in one tub, supporting themselves by their arms thrown over each other’s shoulders.

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