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...Pittsburgh a woman wrapped up her stove, trudged with it under her arm to the board to let them see how much kerosene she needed...
Below, the cabin had suddenly become a welter of men, clothes, dishes, gear. Water pouring down her hatch had hurled the skipper bodily out of the chartroom and into the galley. Around the cabin, like dice in a box, skittered 50-lb. chunks of lead ballast. A potbellied stove, torn from its moorings, crushed the ribs of Seaman James T. Watson. There were five other men below. They tried to lash things down and ladle the water out. The men on deck tried to clear the wreckage of the mizzenmast. The 3070 lurched wildly...
Equipment, Old Style. An operation in those days was often performed in a patient's house. The surgeon sent nurses ahead to prepare a room, the surgeon brought his instruments in a metal case to be sterilized on the stove, the family doctor gave the anesthetic. Dr. Erdmann once removed a large gallstone and an ovarian tumor from a large, 70-year-old woman in her home by the light of kerosene-burning auto lamps...
Author Rich lives in the wilds with Husband Ralph, Son Rufus and various dogs, skunks, neighbors. She bathes in a washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...
...steep slope when we met him. I carried his load for the last lap of the climb and was glad when the ordeal was over. His luggage consisted of implements of war and the culinary art and my companion remarked that he seemed to "have everything except the kitchen stove.' He thanked me courteously, bowed stiffly from the waist and trudged down the awful mud slopes toward India...