She had him out at daylight every morning, stood him up in the wood-shed and drowned him with a deluge of cold water; then she scrubbed him down with a towel like a file, and so brought him to; then she rolled him up in a wet sheet and put him away under blankets till she sweated his soul clean and "the yellow stains of it came through his pores"--as Tom said.
Dat water werd met een harden handdoek afgedroogd, en vervolgens werd de jongen in natte lakens gewikkeld en onder de dekens gestopt, totdat hij zoo ging zweeten, dat zijn ziel, zooals hij zeide, door zijne poriën kwam kijken.