A defective stovepipe in the cupola caused the fire, and it spread so rapidly that it was beyond the control of the firemen when they arrived upon the scene.

"Wonder if that thing I saw with a stovepipe in it was a steamboat?"

There was a stove in the main cabin with a stovepipe going straight up through the roof like a smoke stack and there was a damper in it right near the stove.

But no sounds issued forth, though the door was open and smoke curling upward from the sheet-iron stovepipe.

To his astonishment, Athos found that, the stovepipe being broken, he could hear all that was passing in the room above.

The drum was solid cement around the space where the stovepipe had been.

A hole for the stovepipe was waiting, covered by a decorated pie plate.

"I look like a locomoteeve when I get this stovepipe on me head.

No use for ramshackle farmin' they'd have, an' no use for me, nuther, with their top boots an' stovepipe hats.

Most men wear sandals; some wear shoes, but trousers are as rare as stovepipe hats.

They shouted pleasantries across intervening heads, and roared as one when somebody called "'Lisha" bought an ancient stovepipe hat for five cents and clapped it on his head, adding at least a foot to his already gaunt and towering height.

That was housed over, a smoking stovepipe stuck through the roof, and a capped and aproned cook rested his arms on the window sill as they floated in.

She thanked her stars that this bitter cold morning she would not have to build a fire with freezing fingers while her teeth chattered, and she hurried in to the warmth heralded by a spark-belching stovepipe.

"Several of the gentlemen," she continued hopefully, "are wearing stovepipe hats and swallow-tail coats and going as ringmastersbut we're all out of tall hats.

Sometimes they had shrunk to the dimensions of a modern grate; sometimes even to that of a stovepipe hole.

Astrid Peters Coates (W); 7Apr76; R629172. R629173. Out in the Stovepipe Mountains.

Edinburgh will be Anglicised and put in the fashionable costume of a progressive age; in the same swallow-tailed coat, figured vest and stovepipe hat worn by London, Liverpool and Manchester.

A back-draught in the stovepipe would fill the room with poisonous gases and probably suffocate these wretches slowly and quietly.

The stove was fitted with asbestos-covered handles; a box of charcoal stood by the hearth, and in the corner was an extra length of stovepipe for which I had had no use.

"I lit the charcoal in the stove, and, while it was burning up, carried the stovepipe and the box of fuel upstairs.

And all the time the invisible stream of heavy, deadly gas was pouring out of the stovepipe and trickling unseen along the floor.

Chimney and stovepipe tempered the cold.

So, under cloud and sun, when the wind blew soft and when it raved over the shrinking land, when the cold rain drove men into their yellow slickers and set horses to humping backs and turning tail to the drive of it and one heard the cook muttering profanity because the wood was wet and the water ran down the stovepipe and hungry men must wait because the stove would not "draw," the Double-Crank raked the range.

At last the lightning showed him a house, and from the roof of the house he saw a stovepipe.

Passing along a sandy place in the trail, a snake crossed and left his track, big as a stovepipe it seemed to be, and after this we kept a sharp watch for big snakes that might be in waiting to waylay us for game.