beside them were half a dozen towels , the loofah , the pumice stone , the soap , the soap for when the first soap got lost , the ladle for fishing spiders out , the waterlogged rubber duck with the prolapsed squeaker , the bunion chisel , the big scrubbing brush , the small scrubbing brush , the scrubbing brush on a stick for difficult crevices , the banjo , the thing with the pipes and spigots that no one ever really knew the purpose of , and a bottle of klatchian nights bath essence , one drop of which could crinkle paint .