The Kitchen, along with the People's Gallery and the servant's room were gutted by fire in 1938, six months after Emily and Alice sold the house. The rooms were later refinished and are now the gift shop, gallery and storage room. From here room you can go to the back porch or return to the breakfast room.

• Return to Breakfast room.
• Go to Porch.

the clothes-horse came galloping into the kitchen and straddled round the stove inviting our clean clothes to mount and be aired. The enormous wooden tub that looked half coffin and half baby-bath was set in the middle of the kitchen floor with a rag mat for dripping on laid close beside it. The great iron soup pot, the copper wash-boiler and several kettles covered the top of the stove, and big sister Dede filled them by working the kitchen pump-handle furiously. It was a sad old pump and always groaned several times before it poured. Dede got the brown windsor soap, heated the towels and put on a thick white apron with a bib. mother unbuttoned us by the time the pots were steaming. Dede scrubbed hard. If you wriggled, the flat of the long-handled tin dipper came down spankety on your skin. As soon as each child was bathed Dede took it pick-a-back and rushed it upstairs through the cold house. We were allowed to say our prayers kneeling in bed Saturday night, steamy, brown-windsor prayers-then we cuddled down and tumbled very comfortably into Sunday."

--The Book of Small By Emily Carr.

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