Early this morning, before I woke you, I led the brown horse you brought the mother up the mountain on out toward the trail; we'll find him over the ridge, all packed ready, and when I ran back for my horse, I left a letter written in charcoal on the hearth there in the shed-Amalia will be sure to go there and find it, if I don't return now-telling her what I'm after and that I'll only be gone a few days.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The still air was permeated as though with the gas of burning charcoal.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Thinking that they were those of her father or one of the charcoal burners, she did not turn her head.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice