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Updated: June 11, 2025
He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade. "Now that sounds like very good sense to me," said Butler, sinking a little lower in his chair for comfort's sake, and concealing his true mood in regard to all this. "The boys could easily make that investigation last three weeks, I should think. They're slow enough with everything else, if me memory doesn't fail me."
And all her mother said was to bid her go and sit down by the fire and toast her feet. She also mixed a bowl of hot ginger-tea plentifully sweetened with molasses, and bade her drink that, so she could not catch cold; and yet there was something strange in her manner all the time. She made no remark, either, when she opened Comfort's dinner-pail and saw how little had been eaten.
The lightkeeper, it appeared, had an auxiliary engine in a catboat which he owned and could let me have a sufficient supply of gasolene to fill the Comfort's tank. When this was done and it took a long time, for Joshua insisted upon helping and he was provokingly slow I returned to the sitting room and asked Mrs. Atwood to call Miss Colton.
"'I wonder, said he, 'will the landlord object if I ventur' upon a glint of fire for comfort's sake? and he pulled out his flint and steel, struck a spark, and with no more feelin' than he'd express in lighting a pipe, set the flame to the sticks. "The trapt rat above never stirred or give tongue. My God! what a man! Sich a nature could afford to bide and bide ay, for twenty year, if need be.
Somewhere near the mouth of the bay, that is all I can be sure of. You, are certain you are not hurt? You must be wet through." She got upon her feet and, leaning over the Comfort's rail, gazed about her. "I am all right," she answered. "But don't you know where you are?" "Before the fog caught me I was nearly abreast the Point. I was running at half speed up the channel when I heard your hail.
I'd rather meet a dozen Comanches, as far as comfort's concarned, any time, than a drove of them critters. Yer see this's their feedin' ground, and I 'spect I know where ter find them boys." "Where?" inquired I. "Up a tree," replied Jerry. I reckon they're treed this time, sartin; an' good enough for 'em. Boys hain't got no bizness on the plains, no how."
The stork always bit the mother in the leg when he came with a baby for her. Boy Comfort's own mother died of the bite; he was wise enough to know that now. The little fellow looked upon Ellen as his mother, and went about in a serious, almost depressed, mood.
The red-tiled floor, polished by the old lady's one servant, required, for comfort's sake, before each seat small round mats of brown straw, on one of which the abbe was now resting his feet. The old damask curtains of light green with green flowers were drawn, and the outside blinds had been closed. Two wax candles lighted the table, leaving the rest of the room in semi-obscurity.
"I wish to express my thanks again for the beautiful and valuable gifts which you presented me for my name," wrote Comfort, in the little stilted style of the day. After the letter was written it was eight o'clock, and Comfort's mother said she had better go to bed. "You look tired out," said she; "I guess you'll have to go to bed early if you're going to school."
"He's a better singer than Redeye and just as fond of hearing his own voice. He sings from the time jolly Mr. Sun gets up in the morning until he goes to bed at night. He sings when it is so hot that the rest of us are glad to keep still for comfort's sake. I don't know of anybody more fond of the tree tops than he is.
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