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When it was ready he placed it on the clammy oilcloth and sat down. He eyed the food for a moment the ever-present bacon, the sticky can of condensed milk, the black coffee in the tin cup, the biscuits covered with protuberances that made them look like a panful of horned toads. He realized suddenly that, hungry as he had thought himself, he could not eat.
"You don't believe what?" "I don't believe that is enough." "Of course it's enough. Don't you suppose your father knows how to make coffee?" Her father set the coffee-pot on the stove, where it immediately began to boil. Then he carried back the canister into the pantry, and returned with a panful of eggs. "You can set the table, I suppose, anyhow?" said he.
"She said she went over that mornin' bright and early, and there was Mary sittin' on the back porch, sewin'. The house was all cleaned up, and there was a big panful o' greens on the kitchen table, but not a sign of a company dinner anywhere in sight.
He watched Andy with great interest all the morning making the cartridge, and hindered him considerably, trying to help; but about noon he went off to the claim to see how Dave and Jim were getting on, and to come home to dinner with them. Andy saw them coming, and put a panful of mutton-chops on the fire.
Mrs. Perkenpine's face grew red. "They are waitin' for a chance to speak to that Archibald gal," she thought. "Well, let them wait. And she's bringing him! She needn't s'pose I don't know him. I've seen him splittin' wood at Sadler's, and I don't cook for sech." So saying, she strode to some bushes a little back of the stove, and dashed the panful of meat behind them.
At this point Alan, shaking with mirth, sent down another panful of water, and Angus, redoubling his efforts, wrenched himself free, scraping off quantities of skin as he did so. They could hear him scuttling down the secret stair as fast as his legs would carry him, and when he emerged below, they watched him hurry away through the forest, casting fearful glances over his shoulder as he ran.
This work too disagreeable." Gillis had just taken out a panful of dirt. "Bring one more pail, Sam," he begged. "Jim I won't do it. I'm-freezing." "Just one more pail, Sam!" Jim pleaded. "No, sir; not a drop not if I knew there was a million dollars in that pan." Gillis tore out a page of his note-book and hastily posted a thirty-day-claim notice by the pan of dirt.
"A likely place for gold," said Watty, with a hopeful look and tune. "We've tried many such likely places," replied Jack, with a look and tone not quite so hopeful. For several miles they advanced, washing out a panful of dirt here and there, and finding a little gold-dust as usual. Mid-day arrived, and they sat down to a cold dinner, consisting of a few scraps of meat left from breakfast.
"She doesn't drink out of one of my glasses," I declared angrily. "It's one of my rules that dogs " "Tut!" said Mr. Thoburn. "What's good for man is good for beast. Besides, the little beggar's thirsty." Well, they made a great fuss about the creature's being thirsty, and so finally I got a panful of spring water and it drank until I thought it would burst.
Not Cellini himself nor Jeannie Carlyle had awaited the results of passionate labor with a more strenuous eagerness; and when she drew out the panful of delicately browned biscuits, she set it down on the table, and looked at it in sheer delight. "I'll be whipped if they ain't as good as if I'd made 'em every night for the last two year!" she cried.
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