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Updated: June 14, 2025
The train may run off the track, steam-boilers may blow up, there may be an earthquake, a wild bull may chase you, you may fall down a coal-hole and break your neck, or a building may topple over on you while you're walking peacefully along the street. No such things as those can happen to you on the ocean." "No, perhaps not, but there are others as bad, or worse, captain." "Nonsense!
The ship had taken fire at the coal-hole and carpenter's store-room, and the smoke that now ascended was intense. "Call the drummer," said Captain Wilson, "and let him beat to quarters all hands to their stations let the pumps be rigged and the buckets passed along. Mr Martin, see that the wounded men are taken down below. Where's Mr Haswell?
The Norse 'Boots' shares these qualities in common with the 'Pinkel' of the Swedes, and the Dummling of the Germans, as well as with our 'Jack the Giant Killer', but he starts lower than these he starts from the dust-bin and the coal-hole.
Barton was proud of her crockery and glass, for she left her cupboard door open, with a glance round of satisfaction and pleasure. The other door, which was considerably lower, opened into the coal-hole the slanting closet under the stairs; from which, to the fire-place, there was a gay-coloured piece of oil-cloth laid. Beneath the window was a dresser, with three deep drawers.
Fifteen minutes later, shorn of his moustache, he stood in the coal-hole, sulkily smearing himself with coal. "That's better," said the girl; "you look horrible." She took up a handful of coal-dust and, ordering him to stoop, shampooed him with hearty good-will. "No good half doing it," she declared. "Now go and look at yourself in the glass in the kitchen."
There are days when I play my second from the fairway of the next hole but one, days when I couldn't putt into a coal-hole with 'Welcome! written over it. And you are a Ladies' Open Champion. Still, if you think it's all right . Oh, Mary, you little know how I have dreamed of some day marrying a really first-class golfer!
Fifteen minutes later, shorn of his moustache, he stood in the coal-hole, sulkily smearing himself with coal. "That's better," said the girl; "you look horrible." She took up a handful of coal-dust and, ordering him to stoop, shampooed him with hearty good-will. "No good half doing it," she declared. "Now go and look at yourself in the glass in the kitchen."
I found the boot-machinist widow that I have mentioned, in Bethnal Green; she was ill in bed, lying in a small room; ill though she was, and miniature as the room was, two girls aged twelve and fourteen slept with her and shared her bed, while a youth and a boy slept in a coal-hole beneath the stairs.
For a moment there was silence, but then came a little cry, "Opy, opy!" and Silas let her out again, saying, "Now Eppie 'ull never be naughty again, else she must go in the coal-hole a black naughty place."
"I ran on and on blindly now, passing all the shops and coming to a part of the road where there was a long grey row of private houses. I had, I know not why, an irrational feeling that I was a long iron bridge in empty space. An impulse seized me, and I pulled up the iron trap of a coal-hole. Looking down through it I saw empty space and the stairs.
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