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Besides a swing-bell on the window shutter similar to that which had done so little service on the scullery door there was a coal-scuttle with the kitchen tongs balanced against it and a tin slop-pail in company with the kitchen shovel, and a watering-pan, which the poker being already engaged to John was balanced on its own rose and handle, all ready to fail with a touch.
Chairs were thrown down, the coal-scuttle was upset, and at last, as Dick tried to get out of the room, Kate stumbled against a rosewood cabinet, sending one of the green vases with its glass shade crashing to the ground, summoning the landlady. Dick spoke about his wife having had a fit. 'Fit or no fit, I hope you'll leave my house to-morrow.
The angry Norah snatched the slushy ball and flung it into the coal-scuttle. "The miserable spalpeens!" Bobby seized his cap. "I'll fix them!" he muttered, as he dashed out of the house. Tim Roon and Charlie Black saw him coming, and they judged that it would be better to run. They didn't want to fight Bobby, even two to one, so close to his own house. Some one might come out and help him.
He sat very still on the coal-scuttle, making a fresh discovery about himself. He had known before that he had a selfish disposition, though he had never thought about it particularly; but he hadn't known that it was in him to grudge Denis anything Denis, who was consciously more to him than anyone else in the world.
And there, up near the roof, I located him, dangling from the Crano-Scale coal-scuttle! "What are you going to do next?" I asked, with some interest. "I I I can't can't hang on long here!" "I should say not." "Well, climb out and tell them to lower the crane!" screamed Hawkins. I looked around. Right and left, before and behind, rose a mountain of loose coal.
If it were not for an occasional negro, who, instigated by charitable motives or love of money, slouches about from room to room with an empty coal-scuttle as an excuse for his intrusions, a gentleman stopping at a Washington hotel would be doomed to certain death.
"Not at home, ma'am," repeated Henry, like a vocal machine. "My name is Wilson, young man," said she, persuasively, and the Amazon's voice was mellow and womanly, spite of her coal-scuttle full of field poppies. "I am her nurse, and I have not seen her this five years come Martinmas;" and the Amazon gave a gentle sigh of disappointment. "Not at home, ma'am!" rang the inexorable Plush.
But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
Before I was out in the passage again, the first shock from the beam fell on the door. The upper hinge gave way. The chairs and coal-scuttle, forming the top of my barricade, were hurled, rattling, on to the floor, but the lower hinge of the door, and the chest of drawers and the tool-chest still kept their places. "One more!"
They were excellent hearthrugs in that house; soft and wide, with the thickest of pile, and one's knees sank into them most comfortably. When I got the book open there was a difficulty at first in making the great stiff pages lie down. Most fortunately the coal-scuttle was actually at my elbow, and it was easy to find a flat bit of coal to lay on the refractory page.
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