United States or Saudi Arabia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Jane Ann said that when she worked at a place she always tried to be blind and deaf so far as family matters was concerned, and she knew that she had no business seein' or hearin' anything that went on between Harvey and Mary, but there they stood, facin' each other, and she could hear a sparrer chirpin' outside, and the tea-kittle b'ilin' on the stove, while she stood watchin' 'em, feelin' like she was charmed by a snake.
In jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail. There, you've got it. That's my life pretty much, down to such times as I got shipped off, arter Pip stood my friend. "I've been done everything to, pretty well except hanged. I've been locked up as much as a silver tea-kittle.
"I have come," she said, "to invite you all to a rag bee, every one on ye men folks and all, because they can cut and wind and be agreeable, and hand round cups and sarcers and things to eat, if they can't deu nothin' else; so now you must all come and bring your thimbles and scissors and big needles, and, ef you've no objections, I'll jest take the tea-kittle now, as I'm goin' straight home."
You can put your tea-kittle, pot, pipkin, griddle, skillet, or gridiron on to the hole" the old man eyed it admiringly. "It's good for bilin', fryin', or brilin', and all fer two bits. They ain't many young couples gits set up as cheap as that!" An hour and a half of rowing downstream brought the boys to the old cabin. The life there involved more hard work than they had expected.
Yankee Sam suggested humorously: "I reckon they was a little slow gittin' around with the tea-kittle to thaw you out, so you could git up." Mr. Dill declared that he had been agreeably disappointed in his night; that he really felt quite rested and refreshed. "If it isn't too soon after breakfast, friends," he said tentatively, as he produced a flask.
Them San Francisco Mountains up above Flag are sure snow-crested and covered with tall timber and it gits so cold up there in the winter-time that it breaks rocks. No, that's straight! Them prospectors up there when they run short of powder jest drill a line of holes in a rock and when one of them awful cold snaps comes on they run out and fill the holes up with hot water out of the tea-kittle.
Word Of The Day