A bright wood-fire was burning in the great cookstove, which had been brought into the living room for warmth and to economize steps, as all the work of the household devolved on Mary and little Betty, since Martha spent the week days at the Deans in the village in order to attend the high school.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
She brought in an armful of prairie hay, built a fire in the cookstove and made strong tea.
"Land of the Burnt Thigh"
Edith Eudora Kohl
To my mother, in her perplexity over the cookstove, the woman who showed her how to make the fire was an angel of deliverance.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin