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"Be you awake, Mr. Bangs?" asked Primmie. "Here's your things. Doctor Powers he come up and got 'em last night after you'd fell asleep and me and Miss Martha we hung 'em alongside the kitchen stove. They're dried out fine. Miss Martha says you ain't to get up, though, till the doctor comes. I'll leave your things right here on the floor.... Or shall I put 'em inside?" "Oh, no, no! Don't, don't!
Tell not the story of the bears who were set on a hot stove to learn to dance, for children quickly learn to gloat over the horrible. Deal with the positive rather than the negative in story-telling; learn to affirm, not to deny. Some one perhaps will say here, the knowledge of cruelty and sin must come some time to the child; then why shield him from it now?
She knocked for the third time, and as no one came, she went in, and passing through the little hall, began to tap at all the inside doors. There seemed to be no people in the house, Katy peeped into the kitchen first. It was bare and forlorn. All sorts of dishes were standing about. There was no fire in the stove. The parlor was not much better. Mr. Spenser's boots lay in the middle of the floor.
Nan stirred in more flour and then poured the batter into a pan to be baked in the oven of the stove. She carried the pan carefully across the kitchen. "Don't fall and spill it," called Flossie. "I'll try not to," Nan said. Just then into the kitchen with a rush came Snap.
And Sarah Gurridge relapsed into silence, and continued to bask in the warm glow of the stove. Grey strode away from the house in no very amiable frame of mind. A fenced-in patch, planted with blue-gums and a mass of low-growing shrubs, formed a sort of garden in front of the farm.
But, my dear, coals, and a stove, and table and chairs and bedstead and bedding, will make a hole in your little stock. Let us see. I will undertake the stove and the coals, and get your beds for you. Chairs and table and bedding, I leave to you." "Then put down some cups and plates, please, sir; or I will make the list when I go home." "We can manage it, I think," said David.
"In those days they commonly called trainboys 'Candy Butchers'; the terms 'Newsies' and 'Peanuts' may have been used then also but were not so common. They are not so common on trains nowadays, except in the West and South, but formerly they were even more of an institution than the water cooler or the old-fashioned winter stove.
"I can tell you that I could hardly take breath when I came to the surface, for my head came up through a quantity of tar, which floated like fat on a boiler, and it nearly smothered me; for, you see, there had been one or two casks of tar on the decks, which had stove when the ship was going down, and the tar got up to the top of the water before I did.
The little room proved to be dry and comparatively clean, besides being furnished with nicely made and comfortable seats. Leaning back in one near the stove, George turned to his companion. "How are things going round here?" he asked. "Very much as I expected; we tried and failed to apply a check in time, and of late we have had a regular outbreak of lawlessness.
Late in the evening a couple of policemen came in and waited a while around the stove. They only spoke to the bartender, who treated them with the greatest consideration; but they scrutinized the lad with a curious look, which caused him to wonder whether they held any suspicion of wrong-doing on his part. They said nothing to him, however, and shortly after went out.
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