--- title: II. the Kitchen. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: II. the Kitchen., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: By and by Dick grew so faint and tired that he could go no farther. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / II. the Kitchen. # II. the Kitchen. II. the Kitchen. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 35 sentences and 529 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/1/) — By and by Dick grew so faint and tired that he could go no farther. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/2/) — He sat down by the door of a fine house, and wished that he was back again in the little town where he was born. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/3/) — The cook-maid, who was just getting dinner, saw him, and called out,-- - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/4/) — "What are you doing there, you little beggar? - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/5/) — If you don't get away quick, I'll throw a panful of hot dish-water over you. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/6/) — Then I guess you will jump." - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/7/) — Just at that time the master of the house, whose name was Mr. Fitz-war'ren, came home to dinner. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/8/) — When he saw the ragged little fellow at his door, he said,-- - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/9/) — "My lad, what are you doing here? - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/10/) — I am afraid you are a lazy fellow, and that you want to live without work." - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/11/) — "No, indeed!" said Dick. " - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/12/) — I would like to work, if I could find anything to do. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/13/) — But I do not know anybody in this town, and I have not had anything to eat for a long time." - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/14/) — "Poor little fellow!" said Mr. Fitz-war-ren. " - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/15/) — Come in, and I will see what I can do for you." - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/16/) — And he ordered the cook to give the lad a good dinner, and then to find some light work for him to do. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/17/) — Little Dick would have been very happy in the new home which he had thus found, if it had not been for the cross cook. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/18/) — She would often say,-- - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/19/) — "You are my boy now, and so you must do as I tell you. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/20/) — Look sharp there! - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/21/) — Make the fires, carry out the ashes, wash these dishes, sweep the floor, bring in the wood! - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/22/) — Oh, what a lazy fellow you are!" - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/23/) — And then she would box his ears, or beat him with the broom-stick. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/24/) — At last, little Alice, his master's daughter, saw how he was treated, and she told the cook she would be turned off if she was not kinder to the lad. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/25/) — After that, Dick had an eas-i-er time of it; but his troubles were not over yet, by any means. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/26/) — His bed was in a garret at the top of the house, far away from the rooms where the other people slept. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/27/) — There were many holes in the floor and walls, and every night a great number of rats and mice came in. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/28/) — They tor-ment-ed Dick so much, that he did not know what to do. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/29/) — One day a gentleman gave him a penny for cleaning his shoes, and he made up his mind that he would buy a cat with it. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/30/) — The very next morning he met a girl who was car-ry-ing a cat in her arms. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/31/) — "I will give you a penny for that cat," he said. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/32/) — "All right," the girl said. " - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/33/) — You may have her, and you will find that she is a good mouser too." - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/34/) — Dick hid his cat in the garret, and every day he carried a part of his dinner to her. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/50/35/) — It was not long before she had driven all the rats and mice away; and then Dick could sleep soundly every night. - ← previous: [I. the City.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/49/) - next →: [III. the Venture.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/51/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)