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Updated: June 2, 2025
The foreman, who seemed to have acquired the power of being in several places at one and the same moment of time, and whose watchful eye was apparently everywhere, ordered Bob's brother David and another man named Ned Crashington, to go up and look after Joe Dashwood.
After contemplating this pleasant sight for a few minutes he returned to the outer or kitchen-dino-drawing-room, where he found a cot extemporised out of four chairs and a baking-board, on which reposed the sturdy little figure of Fred Crashington.
Meanwhile the crowd looked for Phil's reappearance on the beam from which poor Ned Crashington had fallen, but Phil knew the house better than Ned. He gained the upper floor by a back stair, which was not quite impassable; seized Martha in his arms, just as she was about to leap into the street, and dragged her back into the smoke and flames.
Saying this, Mr Sparks condescended to give his sister a brief nod and left the house. He had not been gone much more than a couple of hours, when Mrs Crashington, having put little Fred to sleep, was roused from a reverie by the sound of several footsteps outside, followed by a loud ring at the bell; she opened the door quickly, and her husband was borne in and laid on his bed.
At that moment, Master Fred Crashington chanced to stumble in his energetic attempts to extinguish the fire in the cupboard, which the Rosebud assured him, in excited tones, was "not out yit; gittin' wus an' wus!" In falling, the old-fashioned helmet flew off, and the comb of it hit Mr Sparks a severe blow on the shin-bone.
"It's a 'orrible sight, that, missus," said David Clazie, with a look that seemed strangely stern. "It is oh it is terrible!" said Mrs Crashington, scarce able to suppress a cry. "Ah, you'd better take a good look at it," added Clazie, "for it's your own doing, missus."
"Yes, but you ain't him," interrupted Mrs Crashington, testily, "so it won't do him much good to tell what you would or wouldn't do." "I've heard of wives, Maggie, who sometimes tried to be agreeable," said Ned, gravely. "If I don't suit you, why did you marry me?" demanded Maggie. "Ah, why indeed?" said Ned, with a frown.
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