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The voices of the fathers fell to the pitch of ordinary discourse; the drowsy town was quiet again; the whine of the planing-mill boring its way through the sizzling air to every wakening ear. Far away, on a quiet street, it sounded faintly, like the hum of a bee across a creek, and was drowned in the noise of men at work on the old Tabor house.
Twinkleheels breathed a sigh of relief; and he made not the slightest trouble for the blacksmith, but waited patiently while his little shoes were being hammered into shape. When the blacksmith took the first one that he made and held it by a pair of pincers against Twinkleheels' hoof there was a quick sizzling. And a horrid smoke arose. Twinkleheels snorted with fear. "Easy!
She turned away abruptly and became absorbed in the preparation of supper, and Endicott, puzzled as he was piqued, at the girl's attitude, joined the two who were busy with the pack. "He's just perfectly stunning in that outfit," thought Alice as she watched him disappear in the timbers. "Oh, I don't know sometimes I wish " but the wish became confused somehow with the sizzling of bacon.
After a splendid supper of venison, broiled over sizzling logs, bread, and fried potatoes, for they had added to their stores at the farm, they had a glorious social hour by the camp-fire.
Then breakfast steaming tea and sizzling fried eggs and bacon cooked to the minute. Nothing like being out all night for galvanising the breakfast appetite. And no time for lingering afterwards.
At half past eleven the lettuce salad was made, the golden circles of the pies were heaped with whipped cream, and everything was sizzling and bubbling that ought to sizzle and bubble. "We'd better go and dress now," said Anne, "for they may be here by twelve. We must have dinner at sharp one, for the soup must be served as soon as it's done."
On this occasion two long wooden tables were scoured to an unprecedented whiteness the young girls in white aprons and the young men in white jackets serving as waiters and laid with wooden plates, and two big wooden bowls one for the hot, sizzling shells just off their bed of hickory coals banked on the kitchen hearth, and the other for the empty ones the fun continuing until the wee sma' hours of the morning.
Over all the July sun poured in its rays from the eastern window, the only one in the room. Tip stumbled over his father's boots, and made his way to the stove, where his mother was bending over a spider of sizzling pork. "Well," she said, as he came near, "did you get up for all day?
It coiled and hesitated, and then began to swim a languorous way down the mahogany slant. At the angle it waved its sizzling molten head to and fro over the closed eyes of the man beneath it. Then, in a moment, with a mystic impulse, it moved again, and the red snake flowed directly down into Johnson's upturned face.
I took it, eyes sizzling and burning holes in my shoulders, and stammered my frantic thanks. "You do like it, nurse?" he said rapidly, three times in succession. And I: "I do, I do, I do...." "I thought you would. You do like it?" "Oh, just what I wanted!" "That's all right, then. Just a little Christmas present." We couldn't stop.
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