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Old Squire Hogadorn could carry around more mixed licker, and cuss better than most any man I ever see. His second wife was the widder Billings she that was Becky Martin; her dam was deacon Dunlap's first wife. Her oldest child, Maria, married a missionary and died in grace et up by the savages. They et him, too, poor feller biled him.
Then the red biled up in his face and over his bald head like a Fundy tide. "'Why, you dummed villain! he shouts. 'Do you mean to starve me? "'You won't starve in a week, says I, helpin' myself to pork. 'A feller named Tanner, that I read about years ago, lived for forty days on cold water and nothin' else. There's the pump right over in the corner.
Hence, when he comes upon the pair over their dinner of "biled fowl and bread-and-butter pudding," Boots privately owns that "he could have wished to have seen her more sensible to the woice of love, and less abandoning of herself to the currants in the pudding."
The luxury of "a shave;" the possession of comb, brush, small mirror, towels and soap; boots blacked every day; white collars, and occasionally a starched bosom, called, in the expressive language of the day, a "biled shirt," completed the restoration of the man to decency.
"Now, Fleda," Earl went on, busy all the while with his iron ladle in dipping the boiling sap from one kettle into the other "you know how this is fixed when we've done all we've got to do with it? it must be strained out o' this biler into a cask or a tub, or somethin' nother anythin' that'll hold it and stand a day or so; you may strain it through a cotton cloth, or through a woollen cloth, or through any kind of a cloth, and let it stand to settle; and then when it's biled down Barby knows about bilin' down you can tell when it's comin' to the sugar when the yellow blobbers rises thick to the top and puffs off; and then it's time to try it in cold water it's best to be a leetle the right side o' the sugar and stop afore it's done too much, for the molasses will dreen off afterwards"
Thus, while your enrapterd soul drinks in the lorfty and noble sentences of the gifted artists, you can eat a biled mack'ril jest as comfor'bly as in your own house.
"But I'd like to hear from him," she wailed, swaying herself to and fro. "I'm always a-dreaming of it." "You'll just dream a bit about getting the dinner ready," commanded Roy morosely; "that's what you'll dream about now. I said I'd have biled pork and turnips, and nicely you be a-getting on with it. Hark ye! I'm a-going now, but I shall be in at twelve, and if it ain't ready, mind your skin!"
"Reddy, he's shavin' and Frisco's struggling with a biled shirt I mean with a necktie," Denver hastily amended. "They'll be along right soon, I shouldn't wonder." "Y'u better go tell the boys Miss Nora don't want her kitchen littered up with so many of them," suggested his rival. "Y'u're foreman here.
I wonder at your want of discretion, when you know how indigestible they are," and his eye rested reprovingly on Janet, who now found her tongue, and starting up, exclaimed, "One biled egg won't hurt anybody's digester, if it's ever so much out of kilter but the jade lied. Two of them eggs I cooked for myself, and I'll warrant she's guzzled 'em down before this.
Do you see, Samantha?" sez he, proudly and loftily. "Yes," sez I, as I filled up my tea-pot, for the water had at last biled. "Yes, I see." And I spoze he thought he had convinced me, for he acted high headeder and haughtier for as much as an hour and a half. And I didn't say anything to break it up, for I see he had stated it jest as he and all his sect looked at it, and good land!
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