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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Jinnie fiddles all the afternoon.... Mebbe she won't go." "Yes, she will. Tell her Miss Merriweather wants her to arrange a surprise for Theodore King. Tell 'er Miss Merriweather wants her to play." Bates laughed evilly. "That'll fix the huzzy. Anything about that damn fiddle'll fetch 'er every time! When I get 'er I'll bust it up for kindlin' wood." "Then it's settled," said Morse, rising.
"Jest around that bend," went on the entertainer, expectorating with deliberation before he continued, "a buggy tried to pass a hay-wagon. It was a brand-new buggy, cost all of $250, and the first time he'd took his family out in it. Smashed it to kindlin' wood. The woman threw the baby overboard and it never could see good out of one eye afterward.
"Down there by the wood-shed." Her voice trembled. "They'll make good kindlin'." Over the space where two or three sound posts were standing, she spoke to her sister. There was something strident in her voice, as if she pleaded for strength to break the web of years. "You better have some o' them boards." "Mebbe I had," said Sophy. "Here, Wilfred," called Gardener Jim.
You shall wipe the dishes, and set the table, and do the dustin', and get the kindlin', and sure you'll be tired enough when you've all that done to make you glad you're no older and no bigger. Your father, when he was noine, would have thought that a plinty for him, and so it's a plinty for you, as you'll foind.
"Ain't that old Joe's bateau out yonder, Chris?" he queried, his trained woodsman's eye recognizing the craft by some minute detail of build or blemish. "I reckon it be!" answered Chris, after a moment's scrutiny. "He's let her git adrift. Water must be raisin' sudden!" "She'll be a fine quality o' kindlin' wood in another hour, the rate she's travelling" commented the other with mild interest.
Looks like it ain't 'zactly grabby fer me ter git a holiday onct every fifty years." "Well, if " Miss Ann tried again. "Yassum, I done filled all the wood boxes in the house an' on the po'ch. I done split up enough kindlin' ter las' a week. I done scrubbed the kitchen an' cleaned out the cow shed an' put fresh straw in Cupid and Puck's stalls.
He gave a whoop at sight of the wrecked derrick and engine. "Kindlin' wood and junk," was his verdict. "Where's Dug and his gang?" Dave relieved the half-drowned man of his revolver. "Here's one. The rest must be either in the arroyo or out in the draw." "Scatter, boys, and find 'em. Look out for them if they're hurt. Collect their hardware first off." The water by this time had subsided.
When I got up and struck a light, thar was suthin' like onto a cord o' kindlin' wood and splinters whar she'd stood asleep, and a hole in the side o' the shanty, and no Jinny! Lookin' at them hoofs o' hern and mighty porty they is to look at, too you would allow she could do it!"
But in walked this little plump, soft-footed woman, with her banded hair, her benevolent spectacles, and her atmosphere of calm. "I guess I'll blaze a fire, Jonas," said she. "You step out an' git me a mite o' kindlin'." The air of homely living enwrapped him once again, and mechanically, with the inertia of old habit, he obeyed.
Williams uster say he'd make kindlin' wood o' me, when I didn't hustle round, but it never fizzed on me." He hung himself over the window-sill with a sigh of satisfaction, and gazed admiringly at his employer.
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