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"'The money in the Savings Bank," repeated Jenny unctuously, "'and any bits o' furniture what belongs to I, more partic'lar the clock over the chimney-piece, the two chaney dogs, and the warmin'-pan " "Well, I never!" interrupted Susan; "them two chaney dogs my mother bought herself off a pedlar that come to the door. I mind it so well as if it were yesterday."
He didn't eat more than two mouthfuls, and then he turned his chair round to the fire, tremblin' all over. "After a bit I sees him drop asleep like. So I sez to myself, 'I'll just go upstairs to warm his bed for him, and then I'll come down and wake him up, and I begins to get the warmin'-pan ready.
"Very like she did," returned Jenny sharply. "And when she died hadn't Abel's father, what was her eldest son, the best right to 'em? And when he went to his long home they was Abel's, and now they'm mine and the warmin'-pan too," she added defiantly. "Well, of all the oudacious " Susan was beginning, when Jenny cut her short, continuing to read in a high clear voice
There's Mis' Cap'n Broad's andirons, she sent word she must have 'em to-night; and there's Lady Lothrop, she wants her warmin'-pan right off; they can't non' on 'em wait a minit longer. I've ben a drivin' and workin' all day like a nigger-slave.
Such a whack o' dome as he'd a-bought, and a weather-glass wherein the man comes forth as the woman goes innards, an' a dresser, painted a bright liver colour, engaging to the eye." "I niver seed a more matterimonial outfit, as you might say," put in Uncle Issy. "An' a warmin'-pan, an' likewise a lookin'-glass of a high pattern."
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