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Updated: September 21, 2025
They entered, and found some blankets on the floor, a fire of old knots on the hearth, a long narrow box tied with a rope; his poor little supplies stood in one corner, bread, salted fish, and a few potatoes, and over the fire hung a rusty tea-kettle, its many holes carefully plugged with bits of rag.
"Now he'll carry her off," said Miss Vesta, "and we sha'n't see her again till dinner-time. You'd think she was his child, not ours. But so it is, in this world." "What has crossed you this morning, Sister?" asked Miss Rejoice, mildly. "You seem put about." "Oh, the cat got into the tea-kettle." replied the elder sister. "Don't fret your blessed self if I am cross.
Meanwhile Miss Millet lighted a gas-stove, which she had always ready for invalid purposes, and Rose arranged the table, so that when their visitors returned to the parlour, they were greeted with the sight of food and the singing of the tea-kettle. "I can offer you brandy, brother," said the little hostess, "as a medicine!"
He was ushered into a library where the shades were already drawn, where a-white-clothed tea-table was set before the fire, the red rays dancing on the silver tea-kettle.
He came, however, without the tea-kettle full of valuables, and minus even the snuff-box; he merely remarked, with an insinuating wink of the lightest-colored eye, “Please to walk this way.”
A loud purr, like the singing of a tea-kettle, or the hum of a spinning-wheel, testified that she was as comfortable and happy as a cat could be. For Puss had feasted, and therefore, like Grandfather and the children, had kept a good Thanksgiving. "Does Pussy want to hear me?" said Grandfather, smiling. "Well; we must please Pussy, if we can!"
A day or two before the appointed date a maid, who was serving him with breakfast, clumsily dropped the tea-kettle upon his leg, scalding him so severely that he had to take to his bed. While there the ship sailed, and in view of Fletcher's later life, it is a striking fact that she was never heard of again. Though desperately disappointed, Fletcher was as keen as ever on becoming a soldier.
"You talk too much," observed his master, in affectionate reproof; "'t is fitting that small yellow dogs should be seen and not heard." It was scarcely sunrise, but the Piper's day began and ended early. He had a roaring fire in the tiny stove which warmed his shop, and the tea-kettle hummed cheerily. All about him was the atmosphere of immaculate neatness.
In a French salon all is to the last degree informal. The bouilloire, the French tea-kettle, is often tended by one of the gentlemen, who aids his fair neighbors in the mysteries of tea-making. One nymph is always to be found at the table dispensing tea and talk; and a basket of simple biscuit and cakes, offered by another, is all the further repast.
My charming Angelina!" cried Miss Hodges. Miss Hodges was not the sort of person our heroine expected to see; and to conceal the panic, with which the first sight of her unknown friend struck her disappointed imagination, she turned back to listen to the apologies which Nat Gazabo was pouring forth about his awkwardness and the tea-kettle.
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