12/32 Here's the washtubs in the shed. That's a real nice tin boiler for the clothes,--I never see a nicer. Mis Starkey had that heater in the dining-room set the very week before she went away. 'Winter's coming on,' she says, 'and I must see about keeping my husband warm;' never thinking, poor thing, how 't was to be." "Does this chimney draw ?" asked the practical Clover; "and does the kitchen stove bake well ?" "First-rate. I've seen Mis Starkey take her biscuits out many a time,--as nice a brown as ever you'd want; and the chimney don't smoke a mite. |