The Fireplace |
The Fireplace |
© copyright 2007
by Lin
Stone
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Well-meaning Euro-merican teachers taught me to despise open fires, the fireplace and
the pot-bellied stove. I admit it didn't take much to turn the tide
even while the proof of the pudden was staring me in the face all the time. "Freeze to death on one side and burn up on the other," they said and all their adherents chorused after them in the same tune. Sounds awful, doesn't it, kind of like roasting in hell? |
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Then I went up to explore a large ranch and came back cold and wet to the
antique cabin. There was no water, no electric, no central heat.
There wasn't even a Gameboy in sight. A fireplace was my only resource and there were a thousand acres of wood outside. Obviously it wasn't going to toast me up with central heat, but I remembered how to use the old double-bit axe of my youth and I hurried outside to chop wood before the light outside faded into darkness wherein no man worketh. I know people calling themselves woodsmen who immediately begin hacking at a big tree to bring it down. Then they chop the trunk up, throwing away the small limbs so they can feverishly begin splitting up the trunk. Native Americans are lazier than that. Why waste your energy chopping down a big tree when dead branches are lying all over the forest? Throw away the little twigs? Heaven forbid! I have spent weeks in the forest and burned nothing but leaves with a few twigs thrown in accidentally. This particular evening I hauled in tubs full of leaves and dumped them into the fireplace. A little fire was started and I hurried back outside for an armload of twigs. These were cast casually over the top of the leaves. I warmed my hands over the flames, first one side, then the other, then I hurried out the door and gathered enough dead limbs to fill the firebox. The fire was going nicely. The whole cabin was toasty warm and the fireplace was the center of attention. Back out I went, this time with the axe. This time I cut some of the larger limbs so that they fit the fireplace and these I brought back in to lay on the fire. There wasn't a trace of smoke anywhere. Somebody sure had known how to build a chimney. I heated up my supper while the heat from the flames toasted my face red with radiant warmth. |
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Have you ever tried to cook supper over a floor vent? You may get that
leg of lamb warm enough to eat before you starve to death.
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About the author: Independently less than wealthy,
Lin Stone writes
how to articles to help the writing trade.
His first book, HOW TO BUY
LAND AT TAX SALES, is so good
it is still selling after eight
years. Lin's latest contributions
are posted on http://www.talewins.com/StoneSoup.htm
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