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Updated: June 25, 2025
"'She'll go ashore on them boilin' rocks, says the cook. "We was sittin' in the cabin the cook an' the second hand an' me. "''Tis wonderful cold, says the second hand. "'I'm chillin', meself, says the cook. "'Chillin'! thinks I, havin' in mind the way poor Tommy Mib was took. 'Has you a pain in your back? says I.
"'Wud ye rather haave a boilin' kittle than love if ye had t' choose? "'Och, no, not at all, ye know rightly I wudn't. "'Forby, Jamie, we've given Antrim more'n such men as Lord Massarene. "'What's that? says I. "'A maan that loves th' poorest craithers on earth an' serves thim. "She had a gey good sleep afther that." "'Jamie, says she whin she awoke, 'was I ravin'?
You know what a precious nice time you're calculatin' to have, about two months from now, up in my trees stealin' my peaches, you young devil. 'Wash you from your sins! Humph! Yes, you need it bad enough, Lord knows! A good poundin', and boilin', and sudzin', you need and a good soakin' in the bluein' water over night, too." Emily's eyes sparkled with keen though good-natured satire.
"Only, I remember one time," the bent old form straightened up proudly and the bright old eyes gleamed, "when the other boys started pushin' things too far an' begun callin' my boy names no names that a boy with any pride in him would stand for I heard them they was jest around the back o' the house, an' I came to the door with my mad up to the boilin' point, but what I saw made me stop right short an' wait for what I knew was goin' to happen.
"The extry work on top o' the poor grub finished 'em," said the storekeeper. "One day in the mornin' watch the whole crew come boilin' aft and caught the skipper and the mate at breakfast. They lived well. The second was in his berth and I had the deck.
"Under there!" and the cowboy pointed to the ground. "Keep away from it. Don't go near that spring, an' whatever you do, don't put your hand in. I did, an' I'm sorry for it!" "Spring! Fire! What is it, anyhow!" asked Bud, as he slid from the saddle and ran forward. "It's a boilin' spring, that's what it is!" declared Yellin' Kid. "Boilin' hot an' it near took th' skin from my hand!
"I I don't think I get you." "Why," explained Sandy readily, "peelin' their skins off 'em. You allus sets potatoes in b'ilin' water to git their skins peeled quick. Same with hogs. Same with most anything. I call that a fool chance to take." Scipio's perplexity merged into a mild smile. "I wouldn't jest set 'em into boilin' water," he explained; "kind of warm, with a bit o' soda." Sunny approved.
"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come," he would chant, with never a qualm at the staleness of the slogan. "How yuh fixed for water? Better fill up your canteens yuh don't wanta git caught out between here and Ludlow with a boilin' radiator and not water enough. Got oil enough? Juan, you look and see. Can't afford to run low on oil, stranger.
"It's funny," she remarked, "'ow yer run up agin things in this world. I never 'ad no partic'lar fancy fer dirty clothes an' soapsuds, but in my time, which ever way I went, I never ran agin the drorin'-room carpet an' the easy-chairs. It was the boilin' copper, the scrubbin' brush, an' the kitchen floor every time."
I'm hopin' now he has the kettle boilin'." "He'll have un boilin'," assured Andy, who was one of the two boys at the rear of David's litter. "He'll be proud to have un boilin' and supper started." "There's no smoke!" exclaimed David apprehensively as they came closer. "Jamie, b'y!" he shouted. "Where is you? Come out and see what we're gettin'!" But no Jamie came, and there was no answering call.
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