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His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most. Then the two young Cratchits got upon his knees and laid, each child, a little cheek against his face, as if they said, "Don't mind it, father. Don't be grieved!" Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.
"I won't stir an inch till I've had my lunch," she said; and from beneath the skirts of her dress there appeared a pair of stout, hob- nailed boots; from within her muff, two big, brown hands; and beneath the veil, a laughing, mischievous face. "Rex!" screamed Hilary, at the pitch of her voice. "Oh, you horrible, deceiving, bad, impertinent boy!" "Rex!" echoed Lettice in chorus.
Some of these fabulous beasts are spotted over with splashes of colour, and others have curious twig-like formations upon their sides, said to denote pieces of coral and water plants from the ocean. The teapot was at one time most frequently filled from the pretty little oval copper or brass kettle on the hob, or from a swing kettle on a stand on the table.
In some places an attempt had been made to mend the road with lava, and as it crunched under our horses' hoofs we could almost imagine ourselves making the circuit of Vesuvius, so evident was it from the look and feel of things that Pluto has at no very remote period boiled his dinner-pot on the hob of Shasta Peak.
Lucy took one flashing glance at them, at Slone, and then she evidently guessed what was amiss. "Lucy, I've done it now played hob, sure," said Slone. "What?" she cried. "I called your dad called him good an' hard an' he he " "Lin! Oh, don't say Dad." Lucy's face whitened and she put a swift hand upon his arm a touch that thrilled him. "Lin! there's blood on your face.
She met his eager advance with a quick, shrill laugh of defiance, and noted the surprise in his eyes. Dim as the light was, she could have sworn that the look in those eyes was honest. Ah, that silly Neenah! The reaction was as sudden as the revolt had been. Her smile grew warm and shy. "Von Blitz has been here," he was saying, half diffidently, still searching deep in her eyes. "He's played hob.
Once I used to be a crack shot, but lack of experience plays hob with a man's nerves," replied Mr. Mabie, as he sat upon his steed and played with the repeating rifle he held. "I see you are enjoying the situation, boys. Would one of you like to wind him up?" and the ranchman turned to Frank. "I don't believe I would, sir," laughed that worthy. "How about you, Jerry?"
She is shown by Bridget Greggs into a small room upon the first floor; folding-doors to some other room closely shut evidences of sickness in the house; phials on the chimneypiece a tray with a broth-basin on the table a saucepan on the hob the sofa one of those that serve as a bed, which Sleep little visits, for one who may watch through the night over some helpless sufferer a woman's shawl thrown carelessly over its hard narrow bolster; all, in short, betraying that pathetic untidiness and discomfort which says that a despot is in the house to whose will order and form are subordinate; the imperious Tyranny of Disease establishing itself in a life that, within those four walls, has a value not to be measured by its worth to the world beyond.
Corney was moralising; and the water slightly scalded Mrs. Corney's hand. 'Drat the pot! said the worthy matron, setting it down very hastily on the hob; 'a little stupid thing, that only holds a couple of cups! What use is it of, to anybody! Except, said Mrs. Corney, pausing, 'except to a poor desolate creature like me. Oh dear!
'Her right name, as you saw by the book, is Paggia Paggiola, but people call her Peggy Pig-Eye for short. Go to her house, throw one of the bobbins over the roof, and then throw one around each end. Throw quick and hard, and, as you throw, cry out, "'Bibbity bobbity bobbin, Go hibbity hob hobnobbin. "'But wait! cried the little old man.
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