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"You keep the fire up, Horace, so's we can melt snow," said the conductor, "and we can dilute the milk all right. It's good stuff." "Fire!" exclaimed the engineer. "How do you expect my fireman to keep up a blaze under that boiler on the shag-end of nothing? I tell you the fire's going out in less than an hour. She ain't making a pound of steam right now." "Great Peter, Horace!" ejaculated Mr.
It takes a man of tough fibre to resist these qualities. Women, on the other hand, especially of the Lady Underhill type, can resist them without an effort. "Go and stir him up," said Jill, alluding to the absent Mr Rooke. "Tell him to come and talk to me. Where's the nearest fire? I want to get right over it and huddle." "The fire's burning nicely in the sitting-room, miss."
This was a hopeless quest. Every house that bore a sign was tried, and at each one the answer was the same: the doctor was out; went right after the quake to be back no one knew when. Some were at the Mechanics' Pavilion, where the injured had been gathered, and which had to be vacated later in the day; others at work in the hospitals being cleared before the fire's advance.
In imagination I can see your great ship, with all its portholes aglare, ploughing across the darkness to America. The dear sailor brothers I can't quite visualise; I can only see them looking so upright and pale when we said good-bye. It's getting late and the fire's dying. I'm half asleep; I've not been out of my clothes for three nights.
Having accomplished this in a somewhat mysterious manner, they attempted to improve their own stature by eating a certain shell-fish which had been the favorite food of the giants; but the shell-fish had also disappeared with the Huggermuggers, and after searching for it a long time they finally summoned the Mer-King, the genius of the sea, who raised his head above the water in a secluded cove and spoke these verses: "Not in the Ocean deep and clear, Not on the Land so broad and fair, Not in the regions of boundless Air, Not in the Fire's burning sphere 'Tis not here 'tis not there: Ye may seek it everywhere.
All of 'em too busy tryin' for commissions in the Volunteers to listen. They've got it all cut an' dried somebody in the basement upset a lamp, according to them nobody up-stairs nobody to turn in the alarm until the fire had complete charge! They offer to prove it when the fire's out and they can sort the ashes." "Um-m-m! Tell 'em a trooper of ours saw a light there?" "Yes." "What did they say?"
There had been a dramatic parting between him and his daughters for the purposes of the film, of course. "Say, this fire's gettin' a little hot!" cried Baldy, who, with the other cowboys, had been detailed to put out the blaze. Mr. Pertell was there to get a film of them, while Russ, a considerable distance away, was to film the on-rushing wagon containing those fleeing from the blaze.
"Can you get me a little hot water from the galley?" "I am afraid, sir, the galley fire's been out for some time now." "Go and see." He flew up the stairs. "Now," I whispered, loudly, into the saloon too loudly, perhaps, but I was afraid I couldn't make a sound. He was by my side in an instant the double captain slipped past the stairs through a tiny dark passage ... a sliding door.
Thou knowest the axe to be heavy, and the sword, how keen it is; But that Doom of which thou hast spoken, wilt thou not tell of this, God's Daughter, how it sheareth, and how it breaketh through Each wall that the warrior buildeth, yea all deeds that he may do? What might in the hammer's leavings, in the fire's thrall shall abide To turn that Folks' o'erwhelmer from the fated warrior's side?"
"Well," said her husband, "there's no use of crying over spilled milk or burned barns, so I say we all go back to bed, for the fire's nearly out and this rain would soon put out any new place it might start up." "I think it's perfectly splendid, Uncle Joe," said Ruth, now that the lightning had ceased flashing; "this will give Bob and me a chance to build you and Aunt Bettie a new barn."
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