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Updated: June 7, 2025
'And when it comes to the perseverance of the saints and the decrees of God, says she, 'there ain't many can preach a better sermon; but there's some of your sermons, says she, 'that ain't fit for much but kindlin' fires. There's that one you preached last Sunday on the twenty-fourth verse of the fifth chapter of Ephesians.
Nobody but a Methodist Elder could do it. I've sold a better hoss than that for $80, and got all he was worth." He stood for a few minutes and looked at the grand display until the Union batteries, satisfied that they had finally quashed the impudent rebel, ceased firing, and then he looked around. "Well, that buckboard's done for. I can't take it back. It's only good for kindlin' wood now.
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.
Then next she got a letter askin' her if she'd join the grand battalion to rally around the flag, an' she says it was right then an' there as she begin to fill the kindlin' box. "Well, she says she'd got the box half full when to-day she got the final slam in her face!
A keen puff of wind brought Billy back to his senses, and as his longing eyes turned from the gorgeous show-bills they encountered the amused look of a gentleman who had just come out from the Opera House. He was so tall and fine-looking that Billy thought he must own the show. "Some kindlin', sir?" The gentleman shook his head.
I never hear such a tale not even from Gran'ma Mullins. She says Elijah sent in her name an' they filed her next day an' she says they've never quit sendin' her the filin's ever since. I told you as I heard in the square she was gettin' a good deal of mail but I never mistrusted how much until she showed me her box for kindlin' fires next winter. Why, she says it's beyond all belief!
He was waiting for her when she came out into the yellow evening light, squatting there in his buckboard, reins sagging. "There's kindlin' to last a week," he said, "the ax is in the barn, an' ye'll find a bin full o' corn meal there an' a side o' bacon in the cellar. Them hens," he added wistfully "is Dominickers. She was fond o' them an' the Chiny ducks, too." "I'll be kind to them," she said.
"Well, Jim," said his mother, taking him aside, "there's something the matter with your feet, I'm thinkin', you've been gone so long. You was all but missin' the chance of seein' the first fire started in the new kitchen. There's something to remimber seein' a sight loike that and then you have it to think about that it was yoursilf that provided the kindlin' for it.
You see, Cynthy not havin' any man, I kind of putter around for her, see that she has plenty of stovewood and kindlin' chopped, and so on. She's real good company, Cynthy is, plays hymns on the organ, knits socks for me, and hanged if she can't make the best fish chowder I ever e't! Course, I know the neighbors laugh some about Cynthy and me; but they're welcome.
I think he thought that when Splinterin' Andra got done makin' kindlin' wood o' the organ, he'd make sausage meat o' him, an' if he was in that condition he couldn't marry Jess " "To Don Neil," put in Sarah neatly. "Mother, come and make the girls be quiet," pleaded the victim.
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