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'Mebby they don't get b'iled s'fficient? "'Them beans is all right, says the War Chief of the Red Dogs. 'They be some hard, but you can't he'p it none. It's the altitood; the higher up you gets, the lower heat it takes to b'ile water. So it don't mush up beans like it should.
"I don't reckon I've b'iled inside an' sweated outside for mo' than twenty years without knowin' it. Lord! Lord! If it took as hard work to be a Christian as it does to be a wife, thar'd be mighty few but men in the next world an' they'd git thar jest by followin' like sheep arter Adam "
"Of course," said she, "it isn't only findin' out what you be yourself, but it's lettin' other people see what you be. If you didn't do that it would be like a pot a-b'ilin' out in the middle of a prairie, with nobody nearer nor a hundred miles." "It would be the same as if it hadn't b'iled," remarked Matlack.
She spoke with an exalted sadness. "I ain't surprised. Susan drove her husband to drink, an' she'd drive a saint. Well, my Willard was as good a boy as ever stepped. That's all I got to say." The sisters had exchanged according glances, and Caroline asked: "Stay an' set down with us? It's b'iled dish. I guess you can smell it." Hetty was drawing her shawl about her. She shook her head.
"Why but it's all water underneath!" she exclaimed at last. "Ef we was to fall now, we'd be drowned!" "Now don't you be a mite skeert," said Droop, with reassuring politeness. "We've ben scootin' along like this all night an' an' the fact is, I've got the kettle on p'raps it's b'iled over." Rebecca turned from the window at once and made for the kitchen.
"Ma'm, have some of these here snap beans, b'iled with as brown a piece of bacon as you ever seed. What, Margaret, ain't a cryin'?" "Of course a man would never cry on an occasion of this here sort," she whimpered. "You don't stop to think that our daughter is a goin' to leave us it don't seem to make no diffunce to you."
I asked, observing that he wore only a dinner-coat and a pair of morocco slippers. "No ball for me. Just as soon as you people hie forth, off comes this b'iled shirt, and I shall probably meander around the house in my new silk pajamas.
Jamison didn't care about doin' it," said the boy, "an' I b'iled the pot of sap down in the grove; but that was slow, cold work. I saved the little wooden troughs I used last year, and they are in one of the pails. I brought over a big kittle, too, which mother let me have, and if we can keep this and yours a-goin', we'll soon have some sugar."
Despite himself, he became aware of the refrain, and before he knew it he was going over the familiar words with her: "Oh, chicken-pie an 'pepper, oh! Chicken-pie is good, I know; So is wattehmillion, too; So is rabbit in a stew; So is dumplin's, b'iled with squab; So is cawn, b'iled on de cob; So is chine an' turkey breast; So is aigs des f'om de nest." Gordon Lee rose unsteadily.
She undertook to play cook, and in half a minute Jonas discovered that she did not know how to make coffee. "Wouldn't you have b'iled a black soup?" he exclaimed. "Poor old squaw!" said Ha-ha-pah-no. "Know all about him. Drink some once; bitter. Put sweet in. Stir him up, so." "Ugh!" said Na-tee-kah. "Know so much. Ask Two Arrows when he come."
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