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Updated: May 22, 2025
One girl holds the spindle and steadies the fireboard while the other does the twirling. =The Plough= It is more difficult to produce fire by the plough method than with the bow, but it can be done. The appliances are simple enough. Other woods than spruce are used with success for fire-drills and fireboards, but all must be dry.
During our confusion we had cooked and eaten our meals in a very miscellaneous and pastoral manner, eating now from the top of a barrel and now from a fireboard laid on two chairs, and drinking, some from teacups, and some from saucers, and some from tumblers, and some from a pitcher big enough to be drowned in, and sleeping, some on sofas, and some on straggling beds and mattresses thrown down here and there wherever there was room.
Doris paused by Nancy's loom and touched gently the unfinished pattern. "Dear little Nan," she said; "she used to make such dreadful tangles, but she learned to do beautiful work. This is quite perfect as far as the child has gone." Joan was on her knees polishing away at the fireboard. The smoke-covered wood with its motto she meant to restore. She looked up brightly as Doris spoke.
Then they hastily pried away a fireboard which closed the great fireplace, and looked smilingly upon the crane and its pothooks and the familiar iron dogs which had been imprisoned there in darkness for many months. They brought in the materials for an old-fashioned fire, backlog, forestick, and crowsticks, and presently seated themselves before a crackling blaze.
The landlady brought a pair of candles in brass candlesticks, setting one on each end of the mantel. Between them were snuffers on a snuffer-tray, and a tall mass of paper roses under a glass case. The fireplace was covered by a fireboard on which was pasted wallpaper like that adorning the room.
In one of her letters to her English friend, Angelina acknowledges the present from her of a large picture of a Kneeling Slave, and adds: "We purpose pasting it on binder's boards, binding it with colored paper, and fixing it over our mantelpiece. It is just such a speaking monument of suffering as we want in our parlor, and suits my fireboard most admirably.
Although the bone implements unearthed were not numerous, we were well repaid for our excavations by finding an ancient fireboard, identical with those now used at Tusayan in the ceremony of kindling "new fire," and probably universally used for that purpose in former times.
"Dear, dear old Pat!" she spoke the words aloud. "The very thought of you braces me." Joan was still on the backward trail. She did not often tread it, but when she did she always returned starry-eyed and brave-hearted. That was her reward: the reward that she could share with no one except as it helped her to live. Presently she turned to her task of restoring the motto on the fireboard.
One can't describe the beauty of the Italian lakes, nor would one try if one could; the floweriest rhetoric can recall it only as a picture on a fireboard recalls a Claude.
The book was set right; but the noise in the chimney was too much for the doctor's skill, since neither she nor any one else knew its cause. Next sounded a furious peal of the bell, and a series of loud screams from the little sick girl. She had been dreadfully stung by a bee, which had buzzed its way out from the fireboard.
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