Red Pepper Burns

Name: Red Pepper Burns
Author: Grace S. Richmond

by Grace S. Richmond

Pages: about 154
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 2.8 h at 250 wpm

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“Don't you hear? Red's coming in on five cylinders for all he can get out of 'em. Anybody else would stop and fix up. He's in too much of a hurry--as usual.”
The Green Imp tore past the porch where Burns's neighbours waved arms of greeting which he failed to see, for he did not turn his head. The car went round the curve of the driveway at perilous speed, and only the fact that from road to old red barn was a good twenty rods made it seem possible that the Green Imp could come to a standstill in time to prevent its banging into the rear wall of the barn.
Two minutes later Burns ran by the Chesters' porch on his way to his own. Chester hailed him.
“What's your everlasting hurry, Red? Come up and sit down and cool off.”
“Not now,” called back a voice curtly, out of the June twilight. The big figure ran on and disappeared into the small house, the door slamming shut behind it.
“Is he ever in anything except a temper?” inquired a guest of the Chesters. Arthur Chester turned on her.
“Show's you don't know him much, Pauline. He's the owner of the fiercest good disposition ever heard of. He's the pepperest proposition of an angel this earth has ever seen. He's a red-headed, sharp-tongued brute of a saint--”
“He's a pot of mustard that's clear balm--if you don't mind getting stung when it's applied.”
“I'm going over to get something for this abominable headache--and, incidentally, to find out what's the row. He's probably lost a patient--it always goes to his brain like that. When he abuses his beloved engine that way it's because some other machinery has stopped somewhere.”
“If he's lost a patient you'd better let him alone, dear,” advised his wife, Winifred.

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