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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Or, if you has a fancy for stirrin' incident an' lively scenes, thar's a time when the rains has raised the old Canadian ontil that quicksand ford at Tascosa which has done eat a hundred teams if ever it swallows one! is torn up complete an' the bottom of the river nothin' save b'ilin' sand with a shallow yere an' a hole deep enough to drown a house scooped out jest beyond.
Margaret looked at him as if he were an accusing spirit, coming down, as every woman must, from heights of self-renunciation or bold resolve, to an undarned stocking or an uncooked meal. "Kittle's b'ilin'," he announced, flinging in the information as a general gratuity. "That will do, Joel," said Mrs. Howth. The tone of stately blandness which Mrs.
Can't I leave overnight and find things safe in the mornin'?... You hain't got the sense Gawd give field mice the whole kit and b'ilin' of you. Serves you dum well right, tryin' to git somethin' f'r nothin'. Now git away fr'm here. Don't pester me.... You've been swindled, that's what, and it serves you doggone well right. Now git."
Then I put the key into my pocket and went back to my chair to do some more thinkin'. "Next mornin' I was up early and when the banker turned out I was fryin' a couple of slices of the pork and had some coffee b'ilin'. Likewise there was a pan of johnnycake in the oven. The wind had gone down consider'ble, but 'twas foggy and thick again, which was a pleasin' state of things for yours truly.
What makes me b'ilin' is to think how we've set still and let a man that we never saw afore last March, and don't know one blessed thing about, run up bills and RUN 'em up. How we come to be such everlastin' fools I don't see! What did we let him have the stuff for? Why didn't we make him pay? "Now see here, Obed Gott," broke in Weeks, the butcher, "you know why just as well as we do.
Somethin' may happen to keep me from enjoyin' myself any more'n you are this minute. An' my suz! I smell that ham water b'ilin' over this instant. An' what next! There's Kitty Keehoty comin' out the tool-house with that roll o' grapevine wire that you put away so careful an' it's most more'n she can lug. But she'd tackle it. She'd tackle it if it was twicet as heavy.
Through the day the British regiments were sullenly taking their departure. Pompey informed Ruth that the vagabonds had begun to plunder the stores and break into houses. "Dey won't git into dis yeer house, honey. I'se got de water b'ilin' hot in de kitchen for 'em," said Phillis.
He made an involuntary motion toward his hat. "No, oh, no," he answered. "I'm goin' 'cross lots to the Junction. I come round the road. I guess 'tain't more'n four mile along by the pine woods an' the b'ilin' spring," he added, smiling at her. "Leastways it didn't use to be. I thought if I could get the seven-o'clock, 'twould take me back to Boston so 's I could ketch my train to-night.
It's powerful good fur sterricks. Luk at it! See the face av a woman in sterricks wid her hayer flyin' an' her jaw a-droppin'. I moind the toime Larry's little gurrl didn't want to go to her 'place' an' hed sterricks. They jest sent fur me an' I brung along a Sterrick-root. First, I sez, sez I, 'Get me some b'ilin' wather, an' I made tay an' give it to her b'ilin' hot.
"Ef I jest had a little coffee, an' somethin' to b'il it in, I'd be pow'ful happy," said Jim Hart. "I'd jest enjoy b'ilin' a gallon or two apiece fur you fellers an' me." "Wa'al, ez you ain't got any coffee an' you ain't got anythin' to b'il it in, I reckon we'll hev to be jest ez happy without it," said Shif'less Sol.
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