Then they put some of the Painty boards along over the rungs, so that the men shouldn't fall through or drop their pots of paint through, and they had made a sort of a staging which could be highered or lowered by the ropes.
"The Doers"
William John Hopkins
And on the wagon were ladders, some of them very tall, and they stuck out far beyond the ends of the wagon; and there were great enormous hooks, and boards that were all Painty; and a great many pots of paint, some dark green for the blinds, and some a lemon-yellow for the corners of the house and what the painters call the trimmings.
"The Doers"
William John Hopkins
"So the kind lady took off my yarn hair and cut the stitches out of my head, and took out all the Painty cotton.
"Raggedy Ann Stories"
Johnny Gruelle