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They all kept quiet, but all they could hear was the patter of rain drops on the barn roof. "Freddie! Freddie! Freddie! Where are you?" cried Nan. "Come on in free!" added Harry. "Come on, little fat fireman," went on Bert. "Harry won't tag you, and you can hide again." But Freddie's childish voice did not reply. The boys and girls looked anxiously at one another.
But a condition must be attached to this promise: no one must approach him again on this subject; it must be kept an inviolable secret. Only when Trenck was free would the fireman receive the other half of the stipulated sum; if he failed in his attempt, he would return the money he now held. This was all that the princess had heard from Vienna; her heart was sorrowful almost hopeless.
Every minute or two he pulled the chain and yanked the furnace door open to throw in the coal, shutting the door again after each shovelful, to keep the fire hot. The fireman on a fast locomotive is kept extremely busy, for he must keep the steam-pressure up to the required standard 150 or 200 pounds no matter how fast the sucking cylinders may draw it out.
"Good evening," said Mavis, who would scarcely have been surprised if Farthing had brought out a handful of marbles and started playing with them. "The driver's out, miss, so " "The driver?" interrupted Mavis. "Mrs Farthing, miss. I be only fireman when her be about," he humbly informed her. "Won't you sit down?" "I? No, thankee, miss.
Here they became restless, and went back at their old trade, thinking that no one even on the Pacific Slope had any right to cause them fear. They held up a train in Tulare county and killed a fireman, but were repulsed. Later arrested and tried, William was cleared, but Grattan was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary.
So encouraged he went on to say: "But when I got my hand on that old duffer's collar, and lowered him to the ladder, and the fire shot roaring out of the window after him, too late to eat him, and the crowd cheered the fireman and me, I did feel warm about the waistcoat, and, for the first time this ever so long, life seemed not quite ended.
Then, one morning, as Freddie awoke in his little bed, he heard his mother calling: "Come on, little fireman. Time to get up!" "Is there a fire?" asked Freddie, eagerly. "No, but school begins to-day and you don't want to be late. Come on then, get up. You too, Flossie." "Aren't Nan and Bert going?" asked Freddie. "Yes, but they were up long ago. I let you two little twins sleep longer.
"Yes, sir." "Don't be so cross," whispered Gertrude. "You were so short with that poor fireman to-night, and he told me such a pitiful story about being ordered out and having to go or lose his position " "Did Foley tell you that?" "Yes." "Surely, nerve runs in his family as well as his cousin's.
A noble young fireman, by the name of John F. Govern, of No. 39 Hose Company, instantly came to the rescue, and, single-handed, held the crowd at bay. Taking the wounded and unconscious boy in his arms, he carried him to a place of safety. The terrible beating and the great fright the poor lad had undergone was too much for his feeble frame; he died on the following Tuesday.
Sorrel-top Simpson, a year younger than his brother, proved to be a most unfair fighter, and the good-natured fireman was compelled to interfere several times before the second of the Simpson clan lay on the ground and acknowledged defeat. This time Joe reached for his kites without the slightest doubt that he was to get them. But still another lad stepped in between him and his property.
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