How it does burn things up! I hope beefsteak is cheap.

I won't ask anybody to eat this, all covered with ashes.

I'll never try to broil any again on top of a stick of wood! I won't try that 'steamboat pudding.' Sounds as if 'twould burn, and I know it would.

Let 'em go without pudding." After the most tiresome afternoon she had ever spent in her life, Mother Hubbard went down with Fly, whom she dared not leave by herself, to call her boarders to dinner..