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Updated: June 11, 2025
'Tell us what's the matter, sir, said John, 'or I'll kill you. Tell us what's the matter, sir, or in another second I'll have your head under the biler. How dare you look like that? Is anybody a-following of you? What do you mean? Say something, or I'll be the death of you, I will.
I've got if tell ye David's been losin' money. Hain't never wrote ye 'bout it not a word 'cause I didn't know how 'twas comin' out. 'How did he lose it? I enquired. 'Wall ye know that Ow Barker runs a hardware store in Migleyville he sold him a patent right. Figgered an' argued night an' day fer more 'n three weeks. It was a new fangled wash biler.
The horrible and electric yell that instantly issued from his agonized throat could only be compared, as Joe Blunt expressed it, "to the last dyin' screech o' a bustin' steam biler!"
"Here you are," shouted Nickel Sling, pushing the men violently aside, and holding a steaming tumbler of hot brandy-and-water under Glynn's nose. "Down with it; that's the stuff to get up the steam fit to bust yer biler, I calc'late." The men looked on for a moment in silence, while Glynn drank, as if they expected some remarkable chemical change to take place in his constitution.
"He was awful shook up when it looked as if Hamilton and Company was goin' to founder. He didn't keep blowin' off steam about it the way I did my safety-valve's always open but he kept it all inside his biler and it's put his engine out of gear. He'll get along all right so long's it's smooth sailin', but what I'm afraid of is a rock showin' up in the channel unexpected.
"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 "
Jericho showed equal feeling, but in a more emphatic form, since it was evinced in the shape of a substantial meal, which was most welcome to Zac, and to Margot also. As for Biler, he said not a word, but stood with his melancholy face turned towards his master, and his jaws moving as though engaged in devouring something.
'I'm sure, Sir, returned the wretched Biler, blubbering again, and again having recourse to his coat-cuff: 'I shouldn't care, sometimes, if it was growed too. My misfortunes all began in wagging, Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' wag? 'Excepting what? said Mr Carker. 'Wag, Sir. Wagging from school. 'Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going? said Mr Carker.
Now, boys, they've been trying to get this biler across the tracks here, and they've broke the ice. The water in this ditch is three feet deep and freezing cold. They've stuck getting the biler over, but I wonder if we can't cross on it, and hit the wood beyond. Maybe we can walk it." Jimmy set a foot on the ice-covered boiler, howled, and fell back on the men behind him.
With these words Jericho stood up, regarding Biler with an appearance of grave dignity, which would have overawed even a less solemn lad than this. Biler did not refuse obedience, but thrusting a few fragments of dried codfish into his mouth, heaved a sigh, gave another dejected look at surrounding space, and then slowly and mournfully descended to the lower world.
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