Bless you I saw in a moment what was the matter with us, and says I, out goes your fires!--no more slow torture and certain death for me, sir.

What you want is the appearance of heat, not the heat itself--that's the idea.

Well how to do it was the next thing.

I just put my head, to work, pegged away, a couple of days, and here you are! Rheumatism?
Why a man can't any more start a case of rheumatism in this house than he can shake an opinion out of a mummy! Stove with a candle in it and a transparent door--that's it--it has been the salvation of this family.

Don't you fail to write your father about it, Washington.