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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Pal, the Billy of me is at the exploding point! I believe I'll wind up by getting out in the corridor some day and shooting holes in all the steam radiators! Did you ever live with one, Ward? Nasty, sizzly things; they drive me wild. I'd give the best cow in the bunch for just one hour in front of our old stone fireplace and see the sparks go up the chimney, and hear the coyotes.
Then came the thought, Why despair while two matches remain? I struck the first now, the fourteenth, and, in spite of dead fingers and the sizzly, doubtful match, it cracked, blazed, and then, oh blessed, blessed birch bark! with any other tinder my numbed hands had surely failed it blazed like a torch, and warmth at last was mine, and outward comfort for a house of gloom.
Eleanor and Anne rapped again and again for admission, but Barbara was obdurate about her right of possession. When she finally opened the door for her room-mates, they stared at her in amused surprise. "Your hair looks all sizzly, Bob," said Eleanor. "Oh, Bob, remove some of that carmine from your lips!" advised Anne. "Why?" demanded Barbara. "Too much of it, that's all!" giggled Eleanor.
From the descriptions he had amassed through his unwearied questioning, he had pieced out for himself a quaint little world of color and light, how like or unlike the actuality no one could possibly tell. "Blue is a cool thing, like water, or ice clinking in your glass," he would say, "and red's hot and sizzly, like the fire."
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