Quotes About Kettles

chief. How in the world, grandmother still asked herself, had those early settlers been able to enjoy living without such simple comforts as feather beds and kettles of hot water? In fear, too, whenever they had taken time to stop and think, of the savages. Yet

Of the great body of critics ... the fact of their influence is no less undeniable than the reason why they should not be influential. The brazen kettles will be taken for oracles all the world over. But the influence is for today, for this hour--not for tomorrow and the day after--unless indeed ... the poet do himself perpetuate the influence by submitting to it.

An Ohioan added that the soup was made in four kettles, but in order to stretch the soup to make enough for 4,000 men, it was then diluted with "freezing water" brought in pails directly from the river. "The quality of the last mess was decidedly thin, after undergoing so many dilutions; and there is no doubt that the addition of some eighty pailfuls of cold river water detracted somewhat from its flavor." {38}