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I'll build a fire, and you must take off your wet things and go to bed and sleep. If you need anything you can hammer on the floor." "But you " "I'll be in my office, below. I'm on night duty to-night," said he, tactfully fabricating. "Very well. You're awfully kind." He adjusted the oil-stove, threw a warmed blanket over her feet, and hurried to his room to build the promised fire.
What a sense of power and prosperity it gave them as they made their selection two canvas-cots and two pairs of blankets, a lamp and an oil-can and a tiny oil-stove, two water- buckets and an axe and a wash-basin, a camp-stool and a hammock and a box full of groceries! They got a team to carry all this, in addition to their lumber and their trunks.
"Too hot in July, certainly; we'll camp downstairs while this weather lasts. But fine and warm and sunny through the winter. A bit of an oil-stove will make Granny as snug as a kitten, and her maid Charlotte will see that she's never left alone with it burning." "I see you're quite invincible in your determination to make the best of everything.
Seated in a cane chair by the oil-stove was the shrivelled figure of Sam Tuk, his bald head lolling sideways so that his big horn-rimmed spectacles resembled a figure 8. On the counter was set a ship's lantern. As Sin Sin Wa came in Sam Tuk slowly raised his head. No greetings were exchanged, but Sin Sin Wa untied the neck of his kit-bag and drew out a large wicker cage.
Beth fetched her oil-stove first, with the kettle on it, and, while the water was boiling, she cut bread and butter and lighted the fire. "We'll have tea together, if you please," she said cheerfully. "I've a horrible suspicion that you've had nothing to eat or drink all day." Her sympathy recalled his pleasant, patient smile. "My appetite is not devouring," he said, "but my thirst is.
The shopmen ask outrageous prices, but do not expect to be paid them. "How much the kerosinka?" I asked in sport. "Ten shillings," said an old, sorrowful-looking Persian. I laughed sarcastically, and was about to move away. The Persian was taking the oil-stove to bits to show me its inward perfection. "Name your price," said he.
As it was manifest that nothing could be done at the moment except to wait patiently, they returned to the cave, where they lighted the oil-stove, and Moses who had taken the precaution to carry up some provisions in a bag from the canoe proceeded to prepare a meal. "Stummicks must be attended to," he murmured to himself as he moved about the cave-kitchen and shook his head gravely.
I assure you, gentlemen, that when I invited you to my home and to what I had hoped would be an interesting reunion, I had intended that my kitchen should justify itself. However, we must do what we can. I am sure that you will agree with me that it would be folly to consume our air too rapidly by lighting an oil-stove.
But the suggestion was, in fact, far more subtle, pervasive almost you might call it an aroma. The Counting House so he called the single apartment in which he slung his hammock, wrote up his ledgers, interviewed his customers, and in the intervals cooked his meals on an oil-stove was, in pact, a store of ample dimensions. To speak precisely, it measured thirty-six feet by fourteen. But Mr.
It had one bed, one table, one dissipated bureau, two straight bare chairs, and one venerable lithograph depicting a girl with ringlets shaking her irritating forefinger at a high-church kitten. The landlady consented to his importing an oil-stove for cooking his meals. He bought the stove, with a box of oatmeal, a jar of bacon, and half a dozen eggs.
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