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Zoeth said this mornin' he felt as if somethin' was goin' to happen, and then Isaiah upset the tea kittle all over both my feet and I said I felt as if it HAD happened. But it hadn't, had it! Well, if it ain't good to look at you, Mary-'Gusta! How'd you happen to come this time of year? Has the schoolhouse foundered?" Mary repeated the excuse she had given Mr. Hamilton. It was sufficient.
I fully sympathize with Tennyson's, Northern Farmer, Old Style: "But summon 'ull come ater meä mayhap wi' 'is kittle o' steäm Huzzin' an' maäzin' the blessed feälds wi' the Devil's oän teäm"; for, except on a large farm with immense fields, the ponderous and ungainly steam, tackle gives one a sensation of intrusion.
"Preachin' wes kittle wark in Pitscoorie, for the fouk were awfu' creetics, though they didna maybe think sae muckle o' themselves as Drumtochty. A' aye githered their jidgment through the week, an' gin he hed made a slip meddling wi' warks or sic-like in his sermon, it wes pit richt next Sabbath, and sovereignty whuppit in at the feenish.
So it went on for a year or two, till, one fall, I was stayin' here to your ma's, Cornele, I guess you remember the time, helpin' of her make up her quinces and apples. We was jest in the midst of bilin' cider, with one biler on the stove and the biggest brass kittle full in the fireplace, when in comes boltin' Miss Jaynes, dressed up as fine as a fiddle.
Sam was always a great hand to joke with the preachers. But the way things went that day the weather didn't make much difference anyhow to young Sam. "The whole neighborhood turned out Sunday evenin' and went over to Kittle Creek to see the big babtizin'. Marthy and Amos and all the children was there, and Marthy looked like she'd had a big streak o' good luck.
Certainly Alick never had. It was a new idea to him to wonder how poor Philip Price, the tutor, liked walking every day, rain or shine, over from Brattlesby, the little inland town some three miles off, in order to teach Geoff and himself just so much and no more as either of the unruly brothers chose to learn; for the Carnegy boys were 'kittle cattle, as the North-country folk say, to deal with.
"Bellers, sir?" growled Dumlow, who was looking on; "I took 'em to make the kittle bile, and didn't have no time to put 'em back 'cause of the boats coming." "Ah, the boats," cried Mr Preddle, excitedly. "Jarette knocked me down." "And he got knocked down hisself, sir. Reg'lar one for his nob," said Dumlow. "Then we won, Dale?"
"An' please, sir, tell 'er I meant to go back to her at the end of three days, as I promised; but I couldn't leave the 'ouse with baby inside, an' the fire, an' the kittle, with nobody to take care on 'em could I, sir?" "Cer'nly not, little woman," returned the letter-carrier, with a solemn look at the overburdened creature who appealed to him.
"I no dream no more arter dat, 'cause I was woked by a fly what hab hoed up my nose, an' kep' bumblin' in it like steam inside ob a kittle." "Well, Ebony," asked Orlando, "what conclusions do you draw from that dream?" "I di'nt draw no kungklooshins from it 'cos I dunno what de are. "Kine, Ebony not swine," interrupted the missionary, with a good-humoured smile, "which is all the same as cows."
He stood around awhile awaiting his chance, but it did not seem to get any nearer. He said something about the length of time it took, and a young fellow near remarked: "Here, Uncle, give me your kittle. I'll git it filled for you." Without a thought the Deacon surrendered the kettle to him, and he took his place in line.
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