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A lively sizzling arose from the frying pan; and a delicious smell filled the air. Bobby made out a tea-kettle at the back, and the phantom of light steam issuing from its spout. In a little while Mr. Kincaid straightened up and with a clatter slid an iron stove cover over the opening. He lit a candle, stuck it in the mouth of a bottle, and moved down on the table shelf carrying the frying pan.
And if at such times you should think that you really perceived drops of moisture in the spout, how do you know that they are not merely condensed from its vapor; or how do you know that they are not those identical drops superficially lodged in the spout-hole fissure, which is countersunk into the summit of the whale's head?
Out came the head belonging to it, and a spout like an explosion burst forth, denoting the presence of an enormous bull-cachalot. Close by his side was a cow of about one-third his size, the favoured sultana of his harem, I suppose. Prudence whispered, "Go for the cow;" ambition hissed, "All or none the bull, the bull."
We don't reflect on it, Mr. Carling. 'Not enough, not enough. 'I feel such a spout of platitudes that I could out With a Leading Article on a sheet of paper on your back while you're bending over the baskets. I seem to have got circularly round again to Eden when I enter a garden. Only, here we have to pay for the fruits we pluck. Well, and just the same there; and no end to the payment either.
Such a curious pitcher, it was, a brown and white china cow I'm sure it must have been very, very old, for I never see pitchers like it now-a-days. The tail was curved into a handle, and the mouth was the spout! Aunt Laura said that she would keep it on the table every day, full of cream for his porridge, just as she had done for his mother, when she, as a little girl, had stayed at the farm.
And, when my hands were washed and cooled, I took off my neckcloth, and, unbuttoning my shirt collar, I placed my head beneath the spout of the pump, and I said unto Jenny, ‘Now, Jenny, lay down the towel, and pump for your life.’
"At this point," says Earl Hank in his exquisite study, 'Spout Through and Through, tears of ecstasy gushed down the boy's cheeks. 'At last, he cried in a choked voice and swooned. The three men gathered him up tenderly and carried him out towards the Elevated " Of course the salient feature of Hank's study of Spout is the deep love and affection for his subject which permeates every page.
There were sliding-doors let into the entrance on either side the windlass, but one of them was kept half open to admit air, the forescuttle above being closed. The darkness here was made visible by an oil lamp, in shape resembling a tin coffee-pot with a wick in the spout, which burned black and smokily.
'Did you ever hear of anybody pawning the family ghosts? he asked, suddenly turning to me. I gave a distressed 'No, and he continued in a whisper, 'You never saw a ghost up the spout? "But, before I could answer, he caught Kate's eye, and, making a penitent face, became silent.
The Cogia exclaimed, 'I must drink, and pulled at the spout, and as he did so the water, spouting forth with violence, wetted the mouth and head of the Cogia, who, in a great rage, said, 'They watered this wretched tree in order that one fool might wet another. One day the Cogia, taking some water melons with him, went to the mountain in order to cut wood.
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