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He eyed the discontented features of his companions, and snorted violently. "Say," he cried, forcefully. "Look at that, you two bokays o' beauty." He pointed at the Meeting House. "There right there. If that darnation stack o' kindlin' was to fall that aways, why, I guess them vegetables wouldn't amount to a mush o' cabbige." Fighting Mike deliberately spat. "An' who in hell cares?" he snarled.
If I could get anybody to buy I'd sell my own, wouldn't I? You bet your life I would! And she waited a minute and then she says, kind of low and more as if she was talkin' to herself than to him, 'What SHALL I do? she says. And he heard her and says he I'd like to have chopped his head off with the kindlin' hatchet when I heard him say it says he, 'I don't know.
Amongst my letters wuz one from Evangeline Noble tellin' of her safe arrival in Africa and of the beginning of her work there, some like strikin' a match to light a lamp in a dark suller, but different from that because the light she lit wuz liable to light other lamps, and so on and on and on till no tellin' what a glorious brilliance would shine from the one little rushlight she wuz kindlin'. She felt it, she wuz happy with that best kind of happiness, doin' good.
Wiggs had been keepin' company with me fer 'bout two weeks he drove up one night with a load of coal an' kindlin', an' called pa out to the fence. 'Mr. Smoot, sez he, 'as long as I am courtin' your daughter, I think I orter furnish the fire to do it by. Ef you don't mind, sez he, 'I'll jes' put this wagon-load of fuel in the coal-house.
As was usual with him when he lost his temper, he got up without a word and went out. "Bedad!" said Molly, looking about her, "I wouldn't have sid that to him if I'd seed there wasn't no kindlin' sphlit." As Mike walked toward his own house, he was surprised to see, entering a little-used gateway near the barn, a horse and carriage.
"Well, then, remimber your father would niver have been for climbin' to the roof of the new kitchen and cuttin' a round hole in a boord with a knife so as to run the pipe through when he was your soize. But he would have been for huntin' up some dry kindlin' to start the fire for supper. So, now, there's your job, Jim, and do it good.
"We all ain' rid in de ole coach den," he said with a sigh, as he sucked at the long stem, and threw the taper at the chickens. "De ole coach hit uz th'owed away in de out'ouse, en I 'uz des stiddyin' 'bout splittin' it up fer kindlin' wood en de new car'ige hit cos' mos' a mint er money. Ole Miss she uz dat sot up dat she ain' let de hosses git no sleep nor me nurr.
He had been in the kitchen, demanding of Hannah, "Whose is all that baggage in the hall?" and Hannah, glad of an opportunity to "free her mind," had answered, "Some low-lived truck or other that they called 'Janet, and a body'd s'pose she owned the house, the way she went on, splittin' up yer board for kindlin', makin' missus' toast swim in butter, and a-bilin' three of them eggs you laid away to sell.
Eunice ain't to home, an' Susanna never had sense. If there's anything goin' on there'd ought to be a man 'round with some sort of judgment in his head. Don't know what need there is for more small wood bein' cut, anyway. We've got two woodsheds full of kindlin' a'ready, besides the big ones of cord-wood for the reg'lar fires.
She had taken a cover from the stove, and was obviously reflecting on the next step in her domestic progress. "I guess you better bring me in a handful o' that fine kindlin', Hermie," she remarked, in her wonted tone of brisk suggestion, "so 's 't I can brash up the fire. I sha'n't have dinner on the stroke not 'fore half-past one."
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