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Updated: July 10, 2025
"Did you put the flowers there, Mr. Gibbon?" "I put them there every day. For you. I have been waiting for you to come to see them. Everything is always ready. You like it all?" "Yes, indeed." "It is yours, then. It is all for you. From cowl on the chimney-pot the kitchen-chimney smoked; I thought it would be inconvenient to the bunch of honeysuckle on the table. All yours." "Oh no, Mr. Gibbon."
The premises had before been surveyed, and deemed impregnable; that is to say, was considered too well guarded to be robbed without detection. They, however, got possession of the plate in the following manner: The boy was a favourite with the cook of the house, and she would have no other to sweep her kitchen-chimney; a matter of business which was performed the last Saturday in every month.
"My friend! and I cannot help you!" She plucked vainly at the mass of stones burying his legs. He gasped on his anguish, and controlled it. "Let be these silly bricks. . . . They belong to some grocer's kitchen-chimney, belike but they have killed me, and may as well serve for my tomb. Reach me your hand." He took it and thrust it gently within the breast of his waistcoat.
The wall against which they play is the same that supports the kitchen-chimney, and when the wall resounded louder than usual, the cooks exclaimed, "Those are the Irishman's balls," and the joints trembled on the spit! Goldsmith consoled himself that there were places where he too was admired: and Cavanagh was the admiration of all the fives-courts where he ever played. Mr.
Macintosh's kitchen-chimney had been on fire; and it wanted but the knowledge of how this had taken place to change the girl's consciousness from that of one specially aided by the ministry of an angel to that of a young woman, honest hitherto, suddenly changed into a thief!
The fact was, that a trifling domestic incident no other than the smoking of a kitchen-chimney had turned my attention to the conditions of atmospheric changes. Certain phenomena I had observed seemed inconsistent with the law assumed in popular text-books.
Why should not so invaluable and simple a remedy for disease, such a preservative of health, such a comfort, such a stimulus, be considered as much a matter-of-course in a house as a kitchen-chimney? At least there should be one bath-room always in order, so arranged that all the family can have access to it, if one cannot afford the luxury of many.
As she saw it, and thought how soon now it would ice itself anew, the remembrance rushed over her, like a warm breath, of the winter's night after their escape from its freezing pool, when Beltran sat with them roasting chestnuts and spicing ale before the fire that so gayly crackled up the kitchen-chimney, a night of cheer.
The writer in early life shed many a bitter tear, drawn forth by smoke from an ill-constructed kitchen-chimney, and thousands all over the land can report the same experience. The following are some of the causes and the remedies for this evil.
'I did know that I ought not to go where I had not been told I might go, said Elizabeth. 'It was relying on my own judgement that led me astray. But, oh! I wish I had been here at the time the Socialist lectures were given; I should as soon have thought of climbing up the kitchen-chimney, as of going to that den, and giving the ragamuffins such a victory over Papa.
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