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Updated: June 3, 2025
At ten o'clock the heat was suffocating, and I extinguished the fire in the cooking-stove, determined to make our meals upon bread and milk, rather than add to the oppressive heat. The thermometer in the shade ranged from ninety-six to ninety-eight degrees, and I gave over my work and retired with the ones to the coolest part of the house.
It occupied a small space not ten feet square, in only five feet of which we could stand upright, and contained cases of tinned fruits, vegetables, sauces, and meats, barrels of flour and meal, caddies of tea and coffee, a small sheet-iron cooking-stove, all the pots, pans, pasteboards, and all other culinary necessaries.
There were vines about the windows, sunshine on the floor, and order everywhere; but it was haunted by a cooking-stove, that family altar whence such varied incense rises to appease the appetite of household gods, before which such dire incantations are pronounced to ease the wrath and woe of the priestess of the fire, and about which often linger saddest memories of wasted temper, time, and toil.
Of course Silla must come in and see how they tasted; there was no question of Barbara's honour and superabundant hospitality putting up with anything else. In there on Barbara's cooking-stove the mackerel hissed and broiled that light evening. The peculiar, rather pungent smell of frying grew stronger and more appetising as it went on.
How Susanna learned to love her as they worked together in the big sunny, shining kitchen, where the cooking-stove as well as every tin plate and pan and spoon might have served as a mirror! Martha had joined the Society in her mother's arms, being given up to the Lord and placed in "the children's order" before she was one year old.
"Why, she 's got four anchors out!" Joe exclaimed, at sight of four taut ropes entering the water almost horizontally from her bow. "Two of 'em 's dredges," 'Frisco Kid grinned; "and there goes the stove." As he spoke, two young fellows appeared on deck and dropped the cooking-stove overside with a line attached. "Phew!" 'Frisco Kid cried. "Look at Nelson.
Jones asks her to come in and have some dinner; and as she lifted one of the covers from the cooking-stove, the kid says: 'My, you must be awful rich, you make a fire at both ends of your stove at once.
It seems as if we might bring the kitchen up stairs, instead of going down into the kitchen." "But the stove," said mother. "I think," said Barbara, boldly, "that a cooking-stove, all polished up, is just as handsome a thing as there is in a house!" "It is clumsy, one must own," said Mrs. Holabird, "besides being suggestive." "So is a piano," said the determined Barbara.
Later the cooking-stove, which in summer stood in the outer kitchen would be brought in, and the great fire-place would be shut up, but to-night there was a fire of logs on the wide hearth.
'I've taken enough now to make a cooking-stove, groaned Kitty, who hated being dosed. 'If you'd let me go swimming every night I'd be all right, added Harry. 'Not another word on that point. I will not let you do it, for you will get drowned as sure as you try, said mamma, who was so timid she had panics the minute her boy was out of sight.
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