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Updated: September 13, 2025
The pot-bellied stove yawned red-mouthed at him, a scant three feet away. Someone coming in chilled with the nipping night air had shoveled in coal with lavish hand, so that the stove door had to be thrown open as the readiest method of keeping the stove from melting where it stood.
There was not so much cleanliness and care in preparing this as a farmer shows in cooking food for stock. A deep wagon-bed would be shoveled full of the smoking paste, which was then hailed inside and issued out to the detachments, the latter receiving it on blankets, pieces of shelter tents, or, lacking even these, upon the bare sand.
During pauses in the march one could but lean against the wall of a miserable house or lie down in the burned-out ruins, without straw to lie on and no covering. Men and horses sank to their hips in the snow, and so we worked our way forward, usually only about two kilometers an hour. Wagons and horses that upset had to be shoveled out of the drifts. It was a terrible sight, but we got through.
We smaller girls thought it a great privilege to be allowed to watch the oven till the roof of it should be "white-hot," so that the coals could be shoveled out. Then it was so still, both out of doors and within! We were not allowed to walk anywhere except in the yard or garden.
Midway between the piles was the little door through which he shoveled the coal into the fireroom. All was stifling hot, with a breath of coal dust and smoke to choke the lungs. Even the Greek firemen sweated and cursed, though they were used to that environment. An ordinary man might have succumbed simply to that fiery, foul atmosphere. It was like a glimpse of hell, dark, hopeless.
Unable to pay her board, she was turned into the streets. It was a bitter day in January. For four days she wandered the streets, looking for work only for work. 'I envied the boys who shoveled snow from the sidewalks. I would gladly have done their work for half they got. Hungry, she pawned her shawl. When that was gone, she went twenty-four hours without a crumb, shivering through the streets.
There ain't one man in a thousand thinks of tuckin' the sky around him when he turns in, but many a time when I've shoveled the last batch of centipedes and tarantulas into the fire, petted a side-winder good-night, and fired a farewell shot at a scalplock vanishin' over the hill, I've thought that same thing.
We loved that nation just about that time, and on his arrival diplomatic relations were badly strained. He was too fat and soft to use snowshoes or skis, so we loaded him on a light truck and started for the buffalo farm. We stalled time and again, and he sat in lordly indifference while we pushed and shoveled out.
So the man held out his hand toward the horse, and he whistled, and the horse came, and he followed the men to the farthest pile of rubbish. And the men took shovels and shoveled the stuff into the wagon in no time. Then they walked along to the next heap, and the horse came after. And they shoveled that stuff into the wagon, and they walked along to the next heap, and the horse came after.
She was down with the grip and couldn't move. If you expect me to do washin' as well as cook and sweep and keep house and and shovel snow, and " "Shovel snow! What kind of talk's that? There ain't been any snow since February." "Don't make no difference. When there was I shoveled it, didn't I? It ain't no use; I try and try, but I can't give satisfaction and I might's well quit.
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