Word: coal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...series of thunder claps is not as alarming as it might be; the previous rolling thunder has prepared me. Once entered, with mighty hand he seizes hold of my stove and dances it about the room, for a few minutes, I suppose,-it really seems ages,-then rattles the coal on, picks open the drafts, slams the stove door and the door of my room, and is gone, gone as mysteriously as a fairy, if not quite as gracefully and noiselessly. When will I see him again ? Tomorrow morning ? Probably...
...seeing to the putting in of your coal...
Paid for Wood and Coal...
Received for coal and wood...
...society for the rest of this year, and that is a voluntary assessment footing up to about $600. With that sum, and the sale of the greater part of the stock, it will be possible to run the society through the year on a smaller scale, -say coal and wood, book orders, stationery, tennis goods, and the list of affiliated tradesmen, and employing two clerks, and the superintendent only one day in the week. If there are three hundred men in college who realize that the benefits of the society would be worth $2 to them, and if these...